Mine Risk Education Sub-Working Group

The main objective of the Group is to serve as a resource on mine risk education issues to the ICBL and others.

The following goals were adopted at the ICBL General Meeting in Washington DC 6-7 March 2001, as part of the ICBL 2004 Action Plan:

• Advocate, monitor and provide guidance to the international community as to where/what/how mine risk education is needed.
• Advocate for and maintain a higher profile of mine risk education in Standing Committees, Meetings of States Parties and the Mine Action community.
• Advocate and encourage development of more programs and improved sustainability of programs.
• Promote improvements in the quality of mine risk education programs.

Members of the Group include representatives from the following campaigns and organisations: Colombian Campaign to Ban Landmines, Handicap International (Belgium and France), Indian Campaign to Ban Landmines, Intersos, Landmines Resource Centre (Lebanon), Mines Advisory Group, Norwegian Peoples Aid, Pakistan Campaign to Ban Landmines, Rädda Barnen, RaDO, Thai Campaign to Ban Landmines, Ugandan Campaign to Ban Landmines... and also ICBL staff members.

Recent statements or news from the ICBL Mine Risk Education Sub-Working Group:

• Statement at the Sixth Meeting of States Parties, Zagreb (Croatia), 30 November 2005
• Statement at the Nairobi Summit on a Mine Free World, Nairobi (Kenya), 30 November 2004
• Statement on Community Liaison, delivered in Kunming (China), 27 April 2004

• Statement by the ICBL Mine Awareness sub-working group 21/09/2001

• Statement by the ICBL MRE Sub-Working Group 19/09/2002

• Village Demining 05/02/2003

• Statement by the ICBL Mine Risk Education Sub-Working Group for the Fifth Meeting of States Parties to the Mine Ban Treaty 18/09/2003

• Daily Update 2 22/06/2004

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Presentations to the Standing Committees:

Links to PDF documents posted on the GICHD website.

• June 2005:
  • Statement of the ICBL MRE Sub-Working Group to the Standing Committee on Mine Clearance, MRE & Related Technologies
• June 2004
  • Statement of UNICEF and ICBL to the Standing Committee on Mine Clearance, MRE & Related Technologies, Geneva, 22 June 2004
• May 2003:
  • Statement of the ICBL MRE Sub-Working Group to the Standing Committee on Mine Clearance, MRE and Related Technologies
• May 2002:
  • Situation and Needs in Most Mine-Affected Countries, by Stan Brabant (Landmine Monitor/Handicap International Belgium)
  • The Mozambican Model, by Hugues Laurenge (Handicap International France)
• January 2002:
  • Lessons Learnt from Mine Awareness in Southern Afghanistan, by Stan Brabant (Handicap International Belgium)
  • Children's Role in Mine Risk Education, by Christina Nelke (Rädda Barnen)
  • Evaluation of Effects, by Hugues Laurenge (Handicap International France)
• May 2001:
  • International Workshop on the Design of Materials, Resources and other Media in Mine Risk Education Programmes, by Christina Nelke (Rädda Barnen)

More mine risk education resources are available through the Index on Landmines: text resources and websites.

See also the mine risk education overview of the latest Landmine Monitor Report.

Communication:

• The Group has established two email groups to facilitate discussion on mine risk education, one for members of the ICBL Mine Risk Education Working Group and another for all non-profit MRE practitioners.
• For any information or to join one of the email groups, please contact: stan.brabant["at" sign]handicap.be or habbouba.aoun["at" sign]balamand.edu.lb.

Related pages:

• ICBL page on Mine Action and Mine Risk Education