| AHD | Antihandling Device
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| AP or APM | Antipersonnel Mine
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| ARF | ASEAN Regional Forum
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| ASEAN | Association of South-East Asian Nations
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| AusAID | Australian Agency for International Development
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| AV or AVM | Antivehicle Mine
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| AXO | Abandoned Explosive Ordnance
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| CBU | Cluster Bomb Unit
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| CBR | Community Based Rehabilitation
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| CCW | 1980 Convention on Conventional Weapons
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| CD | Conference on Disarmament
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| CIDA | Canadian International Development Agency
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| CIS | Commonwealth of Independent States
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| DANIDA | Danish International Development Assistance
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| DCA | DanChurchAid
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| DDG | Danish Demining Group
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| DFID | U.K. Department for International Development
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| EC | European Commission
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| ECHO | European Commission Humanitarian Aid Office
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| ECOWAS | Economic Community of West African States
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| EOD | Explosive Ordnance Disposal
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| ERW | Explosive Remnants of War
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| EU | European Union
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| FY | Fiscal Year
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| GDP | Gross Domestic Product
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| GICHD | Geneva International Centre for Humanitarian Demining
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| HI | Handicap International
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| HRW | Human Rights Watch
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| ICBL | International Campaign to Ban Landmines
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| ICRC | International Committee of the Red Cross
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| IDP | Internally Displaced Person
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| IED | Improvised Explosive Device
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| IMAS | International Mine Action Standards
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| IMSMA | Information Management System for Mine Action
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| IRIN | Integrated Regional Information Network (UN)
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| ISU | Implementation Support Unit
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| ITF | International Trust Fund (Slovenia)
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| LIS | Landmine Impact Survey
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| LSN | Landmine Survivors Network
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| MAC | Mine Action Center or Mines Action Canada
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| MAG | Mines Advisory Group
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| MASG | Mine Action Support Group
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| MAT | Mine Action Team
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| MDD | Mine Detection Dog
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| MRE | Mine Risk Education
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| NAM | Non-Aligned Movement
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| NAMSA | NATO Maintenance and Supply Agency
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| NATO | North Atlantic Treaty Organization
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| NGO | Non-Governmental Organization
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| NPA | Norwegian People’s Aid
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| OAS | Organization of American States
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| OCHA | UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs
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| OSCE | Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe
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| PfP | Partnership for Peace (NATO)
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| QA | Quality Assurance
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| SAC | Survey Action Center
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| SADC | Southern African Development Community
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| SMART | goals Specific, measurable, achievable, relevant and time-bound goals
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| UN | United Nations
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| UNDP | United Nations Development Programme
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| UNGA | United Nations General Assembly
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| UNHCR | United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees
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| UNICEF | United Nations International Children’s Emergency Fund
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| UNMAS | United Nations Mine Action Service
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| UNOPS | United Nations Office for Project Services
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| USAID | U.S. Agency for International Development
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| UXO | Unexploded Ordnance
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| VVAF | Vietnam Veterans of America Foundation
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| WHO | World Health Organization |