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Humanitarian Land Mine Programs Around the World

October 1998. The following list highlights some of the recent and ongoing work carried out by organizations in the field of humanitarian mine awareness and demining. The list was compiled using UN reports, the U.S. Department of Defense Minefacts CD-ROM, and numerous articles from the Internet and major news sources. CARE currently supports a land mine awareness, training and clearance program in Angola and in the past implemented a mine clearance project in Cambodia and a mine awareness program in Mozambique. CARE plans to broaden its land mine programming to ensure that staff and partners in the most heavily affected countries are trained in safety, and to address the land mine impediments to our relief and development work.

Organization Activity Location & Other Details
Adventist Development and Relief Agency International (ADRA)
USA		 Supports medical services for victims, including prosthetics center
  • Cambodia
  • Laos (prosthetics center)
Afghan Red Crescent Society Afghanistan Mine awareness programs and medical training
  • Afghanistan
Afghanistan Technical Consultants
Afghanistan		 Mine clearance
  • Afghanistan (eastern, northern and central regions);
  • Largest demining NGO working under the umbrella of UNOCHA.
Africare
USA		 Mine awareness
  • Angola
  • Worked informally with local NGOs and Halo Trust
American Friends Service Committee USA Has operated prosthetics assistance programs since 1982
  • Cambodia
Angolan Red Cross
Angola		 Mine education and training
  • Angola, Kwanza Norte, Luanda Norte and Luanda Sul Provinces
AUSTCARE
Australia		 Mine awareness and clearance
  • Afghanistan
  • Mozambique
  • Cambodia
  • Thai/Myanmar border (1995)
Canadian International Demining Center (CIDC) Canada Mine awareness and training, minefield surveys, support for indigenous demining operations  
CARE International Mine awareness, education, minefield surveying and clearance; produced "Land Mine Safety Handbook"
  • Angola (working with Greenfield Consultants);
  • Cambodia (road clearing);
  • Mozambique (1994)
Catholic Relief Services
USA		 Mine awareness and clearance
  • Angola (worked with Norwegian Peoples Aid in UNITA-held areas; contracted with Halo Trust for survey of Balombo and Cubal areas);
  • Cambodia (mine training, awareness and clearing project in Xieng Khouang Province);
  • Laos (mine clearing project with MAG and Mennonite Central Committee)
Compagnie Francaise d'Assistance Specialisee (COFRAS)
France		 Mine clearance
  • Cambodia (cleared mines from Angkor Wat complex and Angkor Thom)
Demining Agency for Afghanistan
Afghanistan		 Mine clearance
  • Afghanistan (south and western provinces)
GreenField Consultants
United Kingdom		 Mine clearance
  • Angola (worked with CARE)
The Halo Trust
London, UK		 Mine clearance and awareness
  • Afghanistan (Parwan and Baghlan Provinces, Kabul);
  • Angola (Bie, Benguela, Kwanza Sul and Huambo Provinces);
  • Azerbaijan (Nagorno Karabakh);
  • Cambodia (Banteay Meanchey and Siam Reap);
  • Mozambique (Zambezia and Niassa provinces, also conducted national mine survey).
Handicap International
France, Belgium		 Rehabilitation of landmines victims, orthopaedic workshop, social and economical reinsertion, rights of the disabled, mine awareness, demining, research and development activities in the humanitarian mine action with production of reports and documents.
  • Mine awareness programmes in Afghanistan, Mozambique, Ethiopia, Bosnia, Angola
  • Demining activities in Cambodia, Laos, Mozambique and Bosnia
  • Survey activities in Laos and Mozambique
Humanitarian Demining Information Center
James Madison University
USA		 Land mine information sharing; with an emphasis on building partnerships and leveraging limited resources. Maintains comprehensive website for disseminating information related to demining  
Human Rights Watch
USA		 The Arms Project of HRW published "Land mines: A Deadly Legacy; Advocacy and Educational Activities  
International Campaign to Ban Landmines Advocacy; actively lobbying for a global ban on landmines  
International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC)
Switzerland		 Medical and surgical services; established database on patients. Publishes advocacy and educational materials, including "The Worldwide Epidemic of Land mine Injuries," which includes statistics on injuries and deaths Currently operating prosthetic/orthotic projects in
  • Afghanistan,
  • Angola,
  • Azerbaijan,
  • Cambodia,
  • Georgia,
  • Iraq,
  • Kenya and Rwanda; Previous projects in
  • Chad,
  • Colombia,
  • Eritrea,
  • Ethiopia,
  • Lebanon,
  • Mozambique,
  • Myanmar,
  • Nicaragua,
  • Sudan,
  • Syria,
  • Uganda,
  • Vietnam
  • Zimbabwe.
  • Educational campaign (working with NPA) in Bosnia.
International Rescue Committee
USA		 Mine awareness
  • Mozambique (Niassa Province);
  • Malawi (worked with Halo Trust on mine awareness training for Mozambican refugees).
Landmine Survivors Network
USA		 Hospital treatment and rehabilitation
  • Afghanistan,
  • Angola,
  • Bosnia,
  • Cambodia
  • Mozambique
Lutheran World Relief
USA		 Mine clearance
  • Cambodia
Medecins sans Frontieres (MSF)
France		 Supports medical services for mine victims
  • Afghanistan;
  • Somalia (worked with UNHCR)
Medico International
Germany		 Victim assistance, including prosthesis programs, and the rehabilitation and reintegration of victims into society; initiated German campaign to ban landmines.
  • Angola,
  • El Salvador,
  • Cambodia
Mennonite Central Committee
USA		 Training for deminers, mine awareness
  • Laos (worked with Mines Advisory Group from 1994-1996 to train deminers in Xien Khouang Province);
  • Currently focusing on mine awareness and education integrated intoexisting health and community development programs in Phongsaly Province.
Mine Action Associates
USA 		Mine Action Assessments, Program Evaluation, Land Mine Safety Training, Mine Action Project Development, Mine Action Fundraising - donor liaison
  • Angola (Program evaluation and development for the UN, Assessment mission for CARE)
  • Abkhazia (Assessment mission and mine action project development for UNDP)
  • Bosnia (Assessment mission for the UN, Project Development)
  • Cambodia (Assessment mission for CARE)
  • Croatia (Assessment mission for CARE)
  • Ethiopia (Assessment mission for CARE)
  • Mozambique (UN assessment mission, design and development of the Mozambique ADP, UN project evaluation)
  • Rwanda (Assessment missions for the UN and CARE)
  • Somalia (Assessment mission for UNDP. Mine Action program planning)
  • Sudan (Assessment mission for UNDP, Mine Action program planning)
  • Yemen (Mine action project development for the UN)
Mine Clearance Planning Agency
Pakistan		 Technical surveys, mapping of mine fields, preparation of operational plans and maintenance of demining database
Mine clearance
  • Afghanistan
Mine Detection Dog Center
Afghanistan		 Mine clearance
  • Afghanistan (Ronco project started in 1989 with 92 mine detection dogs)
Mines Advisory Group
UK		 Mine awareness, surveying and demining; training of deminers; advocacy and publication of educational materials
  • Angola (Luena, Moxico province demining);
  • Cambodia (Battambang and Kampong Thom provinces);
  • Northern Iraq;
  • Laos (worked with the Mennonite Central Committee in demining activities);
  • Mozambique;
  • Zambia
  • Zaire (Angolan refugee camps)
Norwegian People’s Aid
Norway		 Mine awareness and training, minefield mapping and clearance, improving demining technology, advocacy
  • Bosnia and Croatia, 1996-present (demining, mine awareness campaigns)
  • Cambodia, 1992-1997 (survey and demining);
  • Mozambique, 1993-present (trained local deminers and established dog training center);
  • Malawi (mine awareness course in IRC Mozambican refugee camps, also in Zimbabwe, Tanzania and Zambia camps);
  • Angola, 1994-present (establish mine action training school, survey, mapping and clearance);
  • Northern Iraq/Kurdistan, 1995-present (training local de-miners)
Operation USA
USA		 Mine awareness, prosthetics programs
  • Cambodia,
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    • Angola (mine clearance of agricultural areas in Bengo Province);
    • Afghanistan (mine education for Kabul schoolchildren; also incorporates mine education for women and families through existing programs)
Save the Children-Sweden (Radda Barnen) Mine awareness and education
  • Cambodia (mine awareness working with MAG);
  • Yemen
Stiftung Menschen Gegen Minen (MGM) Humanitarian Foundation of People Against Land mines
Germany		 Mine surveying and demining, public information campaign, including comprehensive Internet site, mine awareness and education
  • Northern Mozambique,
  • Namibia,
  • Angola;

Also plans for projects in
  • Sudan,
  • Uganda,
  • Eritrea,
  • Vietnam and
  • Laos.
Stiftung Sankt Barbara
Germany		 Hospital treatment and rehabilitation, mine clearance
  • Angola (Luanda and Buenguela Provinces)
Vietnam Veterans of America Foundation
USA		 Advocacy - International Campaign to Ban Land Mines; prosthetics and rehabilitation center for mine victims
  • Cambodia (prosthetics and rehabilitation center, vocational training center for wheelchair production center);
  • Angola (prosthetic and mobility aid center);
  • El Salvador (prosthetic services);
  • Vietnam (children’s orthotics)
World Rehabilitation Fund
USA		 Provides technical assistance, training and medical equipment and supplies for people with disabilities, including mine victims.
  • Lebanon (prosthetic and rehabilitation services for victims, mine awareness program)
  • Uganda (prosthetic services, building local capacity to treat mine victims)
  • Armenia (survivor rehabilitation)
  • El Salvador (survivor rehabilitation)
  • Guatemala (rehabilitation)
World Vision
USA		 Mine awareness
  • Afghanistan (clearance, training, surveying and education);
  • Angola (demining training school);
  • Bosnia (helped establish Mine Action Center);
  • Cambodia (supports CMAC);
  • Croatia (supports Mine Action Center);
  • Mozambique (implemented Accelerated Demining Programme);
  • Yemen (training).
UNESCO PEER (Programme for Education for Emergencies and Reconstruction)
Kenya		 Mine awareness education
  • Somalia,
  • Rwanda
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    UNHCR Mine clearing
  • Funding for projects in Somalia
    		•
    UNICEF Advocacy and publication of educational materials; teacher training; mine awareness at local level; support for NGO advocacy efforts
    • Afghanistan;
    • Angola;
    • Bosnia (published educational Superman comic book with DC Comics);
    • Cambodia;
    • Croatia;
    • El Salvador;
    • Guatemala;
    • Mozambique;
    • Rwanda;
    • Yemen (mine education)

    Program Services and Information (PSI) Unit
    CARE USA
    Last updated October, 1998


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