Technical Assistance to UNMACA
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Afghanistan |
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Past |
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April 2006 |
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October 2006 |
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Donor:
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United Nations Mine Action Service |
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iMMAP provided Information Management System for Mine Action (IMSMA) technical assistance to the United Nations Mine Action Centre for Afghanistan (UNMACA), in Kabul, Afghanistan.
UNMACA centrally manages and coordinates funding, field staff, mine detecting dog training, technical assistance, and quality assurance activities in support of all Humanitarian Mine Action activities in Afghanistan. Although coordinated by UNMACA, all operations are managed through Area Mine Action Center (AMAC) offices and sub-offices in the field. UNMACA utilizes the IMSMA to manage its field activities.
iMMAP's work for UNMACA was invaluable in assisting field operations. Making sense of landmine data is critical to prioritizing demining efforts based upon where need is greatest. Landmine contamination kills and maims, and affects livelihoods, reconstruction and rural development projects. The work of iMMAP reveals where landmines are cutting off access to water or grazing land, or where they are causing the most loss of life. Such data is critically important in Afghanistan, where 2,370 Afghan communities are affected by 716 million square meters of Suspected Hazard Areas. Landmines were responsible for the death of 154 people and the injury of 703 in Afghanistan in 2005 alone. |
Iraq Emergency Mine Action Survey
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Country:
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Iraq |
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Past |
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Start:
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June 2003 |
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March 2004 |
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Donor:
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United Nations Mine Action Service |
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As part of United Nations Mine Action Service (UNMAS)/United Nations Office for Project Services (UNOPS) Humanitarian Mine Action emergency preparedness initiative, iMMAP partnered with Mines Advisory Group (MAG) to deploy an Emergency Mine Action Survey (EMAS) in June 2003. iMMAP provided the survey coordinator, and assisted MAG in conducting the survey of seven northern governorates in Iraq, identifying new landmine and unexploded ordnance (UXO) contamination that had occurred as the war began in 2003, as well as identifying older contamination in governorates south of the Kurdish region where Humanitarian Mine Action activity had not occurred in past years. The EMAS project allowed mine action implementers such as MAG to rapidly deploy clearance assets and alleviate immediately suffering of Iraqi civilians, and set the stage for conduct of the later Landmine Impact Survey of 13 or Iraq's 18 governorates. |
Support to UN Mine Action Program Sudan
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Sudan |
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Past |
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Dates:
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Start:
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May 2002 |
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July 2002 |
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Donor:
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United Nations Mine Action Service |
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iMMAP provided Information Management Officers (IMO) to the United Nations Humanitarian Mine Action program in Sudan during this period. The IMOs provided technical expertise in information management and were responsible for establishing the Information Management System for Mine Action (IMSMA) in Khartoum and the Nuba Mountains United Nations field office. The Nuba Mountains office was particularly important because it also functioned as the Mine Action component of the Joint Military Commission, part of the 2002 Nuba Mountains Cease Fire agreement. |
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