Sustainable Mine Action and Transition (National ownership)

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Sustainable Mine Action and Transition(National
ownership)

• Legal framework
• Mine Action capacities
• Funding

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Legal Framework
Sustainable Mine Action and Transition(National
ownership)

• Mine action Law
• Overall responsibility for mine action
• Establishment of mine action structrure
• Access to international principles and standards
• Mandats and jurisdictions

• Regulations
• Mine Action Strategy
• Mine Action Standards and Standing Operational
  Procedures

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Mine Action Capacities
Sustainable Mine Action and Transition(National
ownership)

• National structure BHMAC
• General survey, prioritisation
• Planning, coordination and mine action project
  development
• Quality Assurance
• Central Database

• Implementing agencies (Governmental, NGO and
  Commercial)
• Mine/UXO Clearance
• Technical survey
• MRE
• LMVA

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Sustainable Mine Action and Transition(National
ownership)

• Funding
• Local sources increasing as per strategy
• International funds
• Individual donor countries

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Sustainable Mine Action and Transition(National
ownership)

• 1996 United Nations Mine Action Centre was
• established.
• Mine Action capacities
• 10 demining teams UNMAC, UNHCR
• Funding WB, UNDP, UNHCR, EU

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Sustainable Mine Action and Transition(National
ownership)

• 1998 National authorities took over the
  responsibility
• for humanitarian demining operations, with the
  
• technical and financial support of donor
  community.
• State become the operational decision maker
• Two Entity MACs were established with BHMAC as
• coordination body
• MAC transfered demining capacities to local NGO
• MAC recognised general survey, prioritisation,
  QA,
• planning and coordination as its main tasks

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Sustainable Mine Action and Transition(National
ownership)

• 2002 Demining Law in Bosnia and Herzegovina was
  adopted as
• the legal instrument for regulating
  humanitarian demining
• operations.
• BHMAC as central state institution.
• Immediate acceptance of increasing financial
  responsibility
• 2002 First National Strategy Based on BH
  needs and current capacity
• for humanitarian demining.
• Operational plan (accountable goals)
• Related to National Development Strategy
• Financial predictions (local sources,
  international support)

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Sustainable Mine Action and Transition(National
ownership)

• 2004. Adoption of revised MA Strategy 2005 -
  2009.
• Realistic approach and accountable goals mine
  safe country
• Community based planning community commitment
• Funding Local subjects (30 - increasing)
• State level budget
• Entity, canton and municipality level budgets
• Public enterprises (infrastructure)
• International community (70 -
  decreasing)
• Principally coordinated through ITF
• EU
• UNDP (IMAP), UNICEF
• Individual donor countries

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Sustainable Mine Action and Transition(National
ownership)

• 2007. Review of Mine Action Strategy and
  Demining law
• Goal
• - Increased role of local authorities
• funding
• permanent marking
• improved prioritisation both bottom up and
  top down
• annual operations plan (drafting and reporting)
• Assumptions for period 2009 - 2014
• - Nationally managed fund for Mine Action