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The Survey Action Center
(SAC) is an international organization with headquarters
in Takoma Park, MD. Registered in the US as a non-profit
organization, the SAC Board of Directors consists
of lead NGOs in the mine action field:
Jean-Baptiste Richardier of Handicap International
is President of the SAC Board and Sue Eitel is the
Secretary/Treasurer. Bob Eaton, executive director
is a member ex-officio.
SAC serves as the coordination body for Landmine
Impact Surveys. Landmine Impact Surveys provide
vital information to improve priority setting by
donors and mine action agencies in the international
effort to eliminate or control the threat of mines
by the year 2010.
Landmine Impact Surveys have been completed in
Azerbaijan, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Cambodia,
Chad, Kosovo, Lebanon, Mozambique, Somalia (Phase 1), Thailand and Yemen.
Surveys are underway in Afghanistan, Angola,
Somalia (Phase 2), and Vietnam. Surveys in Eritrea and Ethiopia are near completion.
Following the signing of the Mine Ban Treaty in
Ottawa in December 1997, it became very clear that
the scope and impact of the worldwide landmine problem
needed to be defined and quantified.
To meet this need, the Survey Working Group (SWG),
which consists of the lead international NGOs in
mine action, the United
Nations Mine Action Service and the Geneva
International Centre for Humanitarian Demining
created the Survey Action Center. SAC serves as
the executing arm for the SWG and the coordination
point for Landmine Impact Surveys.
In 1998, the SWG asked one of its members, VVAF,
to serve as fiduciary and management body for the
SAC. At the end of 2001 the SWG authorized the creation
of an independent SAC with its own legal framework
and Board of Directors.
The SWG remains as the advisory body for SAC.
The SWG is responsible for the protocols that have
been established through the SAC that define and
maintain the high international standards of the
Landmine Impact Survey.
To learn more about the Survey Action Center
(SAC), feel free to contact
us.
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