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Our sector is at a crossroads: needs are increasing, with more than 60 countries and territories affected by landmines, cluster munitions, and other explosive ordnance, while funding and capacity continue to decline.

The response to these pressures requires innovation in mine action and ammunition management. The focus must be on the actual needs faced in order to drive practical solutions and improve efficiency, effectiveness, and quality. Innovation means embracing failure, learning, and continuously evolving to solve real problems and to keep communities safe.

The GICHD Innovation Conference 2025 was designed to work on this challenge. It brought together mine action and ammunition management experts, practitioners, researchers, and decision makers who were eager to innovate. It provided a space for open and dynamic exchange and the reaffirmation of commitments to strengthening innovation. It also enabled scientific insights to be connected with real-world experience from the field. The conference encouraged a shift away from one-size-fits-all solutions towards approaches grounded in the realities faced by deminers and the people affected by explosive ordnance.

"For the civilians on the ground, the promise of innovation is not an abstract idea. It is hope of a life without fear. The realities on the ground demand that we work differently, that we work better.”

Ambassador Tobias Privitelli Director of the GICHD

Across 20 interactive sessions and 30 exhibition stands, participants discussed key topics such as financing, human-centred design, land release technologies, risk education, operational efficiency, ammunition management, and underwater contamination.

The GICHD Innovation Hub continues to strengthen collaboration, bringing together over 100 organizations to share knowledge and identify the most pressing problems requiring innovative solutions, to keep communities safe. During the conference, the Hub launched the GICHD Innovation Award to recognize breakthrough ideas and encourage new partnerships.

By uniting people and technology, the conference boosted efforts to find new solutions to the threats posed by landmines, cluster munitions, and other explosive ordnance.

20+
DIVERSE AND INTERACTIVE SESSIONS
30+
EXHIBITORS
320+
PARTICIPANTS
175+
ORGANIZATIONS
55
COUNTRIES
4
LANGUAGES : ARABIC, ENGLISH, FRENCH, UKRAINIAN

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