Effective and secure information management tools play a crucial role in improving operations and enabling national responses in mine action.
At the forefront of this effort, the GICHD serves as a key provider of information management advisory services and support for explosive ordnance risk reduction. With its mission to equip partner organisations with modern tools and know-how, the GICHD aims to support national authorities in making evidence-based operational and strategic decisions.
This is achieved by providing modern, secure and reliable information management systems which compile, store, analyse and share information that is timely and accurate. To ensure these systems are used effectively, the GICHD offers capacity building to align processes, technology and data with skilled personnel.
IMSMA Core – the GICHD's information management tool
The GICHD developed the Information Management System for Mine Action (IMSMA), with the latest version called IMSMA Core. We constantly adapt IMSMA to use the latest technology available to better gather, analyse, and visualize data. To support national authorities and partners at all levels of critical decisions, the latest generation of IMSMA (IMSMA Core) is built by configuring geographic information systems (GIS) tools, primarily from Esri.
IMSMA Core Story Map
IMSMA Core is a system of tools and processes that can be configured to fit programmes’ specific operational and reporting requirements, which provides access to a wide range of stakeholders, fosters information sharing, and provides real time maps and reports on the extent of contamination. To gain a better understanding of how IMSMA Core works, please check out our IMSMA Core microsite, which walks you through the key features and functionalities of IMSMA Core, allowing you to explore its capabilities and discover how it can help you to manage and respond to explosive ordnance risks.
Information Management eLearning Modules
Learn more about GIS and IMSMA CORE through these self-paced online modules and discover that this technology plays an important role in many aspects of our lives. Disaster recovery, environmental management, and peacekeeping operations are just a few uses for geographic information systems. The GICHD and its partners also use GIS to reduce the impact of mines and other explosive ordnances (EOs) throughout the world.
The modules are intended for participants from National Mine Action Programmes and their Operating Partners who are or will be posted to Information Management positions within their respective organisations.
Guide To Systems Engineering For Humanitarian Information Management
This Guide introduces theoretical and practical methods for using systems engineering to deploy information management systems that support mine action, peace monitoring, disaster risk reduction and other humanitarian initiatives. Systems engineering enables the successful design, deployment, operation and decommissioning of systems.
The Origins of IMSMA
In 1998, ETH Zurich and the Geneva International Centre for Humanitarian Demining (GICHD) embarked on a project to create a standardized information management system for mine action.
The resulting tool, IMSMA (Information Management System for Mine Action), was designed to collect, analyse, and visualize critical data to support demining efforts worldwide.
Within the scope of our persistent drive for continuous improvements, LMAC has ongoing implementation of the IMSMA core. The system allows for effective and rapid data collection, easy access to information for better informed decision-making, and enables any authorized user, including donors, to have an up-close view of all relevant mine action statistics and activities, in particular the progress of land release operations.
Information Management Publications
The GICHD Regional Support Centre: An Approach to Regional Information Management
The GICHD has been working to turn the concept of regional information management upside-down and give field programmes the tools and assistance they need to manage information locally. Focused on consolidating and sharing...
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