| Reporting Organization: | UNMAS - United Nations Mine Action Service |
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| Total Budget ($CAD): | $ 20,000,000 |
| Timeframe: | April 29, 2015 - December 31, 2020 |
| Status: | Implementation |
| Contact Information: | Unspecified |
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This project aims to support the Government of Afghanistan in its efforts to eliminate all known landmines and other explosive remnants of war from Afghanistan by 2023, in line with its commitments under the Anti-Personnel Mine Ban Treaty. The project also enhances cooperation among different players involved in mine action and helps to build national capacity to take responsibility for mine action. Canada’s support not only saves lives, it helps to free up valuable land for agriculture, facilitates the resettlement of refugees and internally displaced people, and provides safe access to markets, water sources, schools, clinics and safe play areas for children. Project activities include: (1) demining, which involves undertaking technical surveys; (2) mapping, marking unsafe areas (3) clearing unexploded ordnance and mines; (4) mine risk education to boys, girls, women and men to raise awareness of the risks of landmines; and (5) victim assistance which involves disability awareness, advocacy, physical rehabilitation and socio economical reintegration.
| Gender and age: | Adult women Adult men Adolescent females Adolescent males Children, girls Children, boys Under-5 children Newborns Older adults, women Older adults, men |
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| Total Direct Population: | 1,902,245 |
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Return to topThe expected intermediate outcomes for this project include: (1) increased access to safe and secure land for agriculture and other socio-economic purposes among Afghan women, men, boys and girls; and (2) enhanced capacity of national actors to fulfill mine action responsibilities, including support for mine victims.
Results achieved by the United Nations Mine Action Service, through Government of Canada funding, as of June 2018 include: (1) over 6.6 square kilometres of land was cleared of mines and explosive remnants of war (ERW); (2) over 467 mines were destroyed; and (3) over 1,902,245 individuals received mine/ERW risk education.
