About Us - Survey Working Group

About Us - Survey Working Group - Members

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Association for Aid and Relief - Japan - Top

AAR was founded as the first Japanese NGO to support refugees in 1979. Since then many volunteers have been supporting AAR's activities. AAR conducts humanitarian aid and relief work all around the world and at home in Japan.

AAR has special consultative status with the Economic and Social Council of the United Nations (UNESCO) and it seeks to contribute to international cooperation through supporting refugees.

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Association for Aid and Relief, Japan
4-5-26 2-101 Kamiosaki, Shinagawa-ku,
Tokyo 141-0021, Japan

Tel: +81-3-3491-4200
Fax: +81-3-3491-4192
E-mail: aar@aarjapan.gr.jp

The Cranfield Humanitarian Mine Action Unit (CMA) was formed in March 1999 within Cranfield University, at the Royal Military College of Science (RMCS), Shrivenham England, to support the work of Government Departments and the United Nations in the important field of humanitarian mine action. RMCS is located 80 miles west of London, near Swindon.

Cranfield University is one of the largest post graduate universities in Europe with a management department ranked within the top three in the United Kingdom.

CMA's work includes research on many aspects of mine action but focuses on the identification of management training needs followed by production and delivery of training courses for local mine action programme managers.

CMA
Department of Defence Management & Security Analysis, Cranfield University, Royal Military College of Science, Shrivenham, Swindon, Wiltshire SN6 8LA UK

The Danish Demining Group also works in close cooperation with the Danish military through the Danish Demining Center, DANDEC. DANDEC support the DDG with personel, and other resources.

The Information Management System for Mine Action

The Center develops and disiminate the Information Management System for Mine Action (IMSMA) in cooperation with the United Nations Mine Action Service (UNMAS). The GICHD install IMSMA in mine effected countries, and provides the necessary training, maintenance and support for the system on site.

In addition, new tools are developed according to the needs indicated by the user.

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Geneva International Centre for Humanitarian Demining
7bis, avenue de la Paix
P.O. Box 1300
CH-1211 Geneva 1

Phone: +41 22 906 16 60
Fax: +41 22 906.16.90

GeoSpatial International Inc. was founded by Mr. Gregory M. Wickware, who serves as the President and C.E.O. of the company, General Woods and Veneer (GWV) Ltd. and Intermap Technologies Ltd. Mr. Wickware brings several years of domestic and international experience in the participation and management of environmental and technology based projects.

The focus of GeoSpatial International is to link the comprehensive knowledge and management skills of professional and technical consultants, with spatial information management technologies, for the development and implementation of business and spatial information management solutions in the area of natural resources.

GeoSpatial International offers planning and information business solutions to enhance our clients' positions as leaders in the global natural resource environment. This includes development of new processes where required and enhancement of those already in place to bring them up-to-date and operational.

GeoSpatial International Inc.
3370 South Service Road
Burlington, Ontario L7N 3M6
Canada

The HALO Trust is a non-political, non-religious NGO, registered in Britain as a charity (no.1001813) and in the United States as a Not-for-Profit organisation (501(c)). HALO specialises in the removal of the debris of war.

HALO has nearly 4,000 mineclearers in 10 countries, with on-going surveys into new regions. HALO's operations are grouped under Asia, Africa and the Caucasus. Our innovative training of local management and the introduction of new equipment allows us to continue expansion as funding becomes available.

HALO has gained immense experience in world-wide mineclearance over the last 12 years and is in a position to develop programmes even further and clear more mines.

Handicap International (France - Belgium) - Top

HI is a non-governemental organization with headquarters in France and Belgium.

A Special Commitment to Landmines

Antipersonnel landmines kill or maim another civilian victim every 20 minutes. The Mines Coordination Unit organizes programs of Mine Risk Education for populations and communities endangered by mines and implements demining programs including training and supervision for local deminers.

Handicap International is one the six founding NGO’s of the International Campaign to Ban Landmines which coordinates the efforts of more than 1300 associations in over 70 countries. The International Campaign was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 1997.

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Handicap International
14 Avenue Berthelot
F-69361 Lyon CEDEX 07
France

Tel: 33 (0)4 78 69 79 79
Fax: 33 (0)4 78 69 79 94
E-Mail: handicap-international@infonie.fr

INTERSOS - Top

Landmine Survivors Network - Top

Created by landmine survivors for landmine survivors, LSN works directly with those whose lives have been devastated by these cheap instruments of destruction. We help landmine survivors find the assistance they need so that they can lead fuller, more productive lives.

Our mission is more than just helping survivors. It is also being a fierce advocate for the immediate removal of these barbaric tools of mutilation and horror. Today, LSN provides a strong world voice for those who never before had a voice, tenaciously petitioning governments and the public alike to stop the use of landmines.

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Landmine Survivors Network
1420 K Street, NW, Suite 300
Washington, DC. 20005
USA

Phone: (202) 464-0007
Fax: (202) 464-0011
E-mail: lsn@landminesurvivors.org

Mines Advisory Group - United Kingdom - Top

MAG is an international not-for-profit Non-Governmental Organisation that assists people affected by landmines and unexploded ordnance (UXO - bombs, mortars, grenades). MAG clears and destroys the landmines and left-over weapons that make areas unsafe after war.

MAG are based in Manchester in the United Kingdom. Our sister organisation, MAG America, is in Washington in the USA.

In 1989, MAG conducted the first survey of the impact of landmines in Afghanistan. Following the withdrawal of soviet forces, landmines and unexploded ordnance were seriously affecting the aid and relief effort in the country; returning refugees were caught up in the legacy of years of war.The resulting information was a useful planning document for set-up of Afghanistan's wide-scale mine action programme. Since then MAG has grown and developed and today provides a broad range of assistance in countries and regions affected by war.

MAG carry out Mine Action, humanitarian Mine Action. Based in and around the community affected by landmines and unexploded ordnance, our Mine Action seeks to reduce the risk of injury and to help re-develop that community and its economic potential.

Our response to the mines and ordnance problem might include some or all of the following disciplines:

Mine Clearance Planning Agency - Afghanistan - Top

Mine Clearance Planning Agency MCPA is the largest mine action non-governmental organization (NGO) in the world dedicated solely to landmine surveys. MCPA employs 309 people and conducts survey operations throughout Afghanistan, with its head office in Kabul and offices in Gardez, Kandahar, Jalalabad, and Herat. Mine detection dogs from the Mine Detection Dog Center support MCPA technical survey teams. MCPA also serves as the coordinating agency for the Afghan Campaign to Ban Landmines.

In 2001, MCPA operated with 31 survey teams and identified, marked and mapped about 10.8 million square meters of mine-contaminated area and about 5.5 million square meters of former battle area contaminated by UXO. MCPA is also involved in the development and maintenance of a comprehensive computerized management information system for United Nations Mine Action Program for Afghanistan (MAPA).

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Mine Clearance Planning Agency (MCPA)
1 House No. 28, Street No. 15
Wazir Akbar Khan Mena,
Kabul, Afghanistan
Tel: +93-26093 (Afghanistan)
Tel: +92-91-810803 (Pakistan)
E-Mail: mcpa@psh.paknet.com.pk

Norwegian People's Aid - Norway - Top

Norwegian People's Aid (NPA) is one of Norway's largest non-governmental organizations, founded in 1939 by the Norwegian labor movement. Based upon the principles of solidarity, unity, human dignity, peace and freedom, NPA is involved in more than 400 projects in 30 countries.

NPA sees peace not only as the absence of hostility, violence and war. Economic and social justice, the guarantee of human rights, freedom from violence and gender-based discrimination are necessary conditions for human survival.

NPA's activities in Norway include:

Rescue services all over the country
First aid and public health information services
Assistance during natural disasters
Assistance to the elderly and disabled
Operation of reception centres for asylum seekers

NPA's international activities include:

Long term development assistance within agriculture, environmental activities, production, health-care, psycho-social assistance, self-organising, human rights, etc.
Emergency assistance, shelters, rehabilitation, medical aid, mobile clinics, etc.
Mine-clearance and mine-awareness programmes
Conflict prevention and resolution

Norwegian People's Aid is member of Eurostep and SOLIDAR (International Worker's Aid).

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Norwegian People's Aid
P.O. Box 8844 Youngstorget
0028 Oslo, Norway

Tel: +47 22 03 77 00
Fax: +47 22 20 08 70
E-mail address: npaid@npaid.org

The Swedish Rescue Services Agency promotes practice that improves accident prevention and response, and in the event of an accident limits injury and damage. This is achieved by imparting information, by running training courses and exercises, and through supervision etc.

The objective of the municipal fire & rescue service brigades is to ensure that the general public has a reasonable degree of safety in relation to local risks is afforded.

The Swedish Rescue Services Agency is the central supervisory government authority for the rescue services. Its tasks include examining co-ordination between the various branches of the state rescue services, as well as the county administrative boards’ planning for the rescue services in the event of a release of radioactive substances. The agency also gains experience from major incidents that have occurred in Sweden and worldwide.

It also develops methods and equipment for use by the rescue services, and is responsible for the training of all personnel in the municipal fire & rescue service brigades and in the chimney sweeping service. The agency also implements rules for safety in relation to the transport of dangerous goods by road and rail, and co-ordinates the work of the supervisory authorities within this field.

Should it be deemed necessary the Swedish Rescue Services Agency maintains a state of preparedness to assist other countries in conjunction with international rescue operations. The majority of personnel employed on such assignments are recruited from the municipal fire & rescue services.

The Swedish Rescue Service Agengy
651 80 KARLSTAD
Besöksadress: Norra Klaragatan 18

UNDP is the UN's global development network, advocating for change and connecting countries to knowledge, experience and resources to help people build a better life. We are on the ground in 166 countries, working with them on their own solutions to global and national development challenges. As they develop local capacity, they draw on the people of UNDP and our wide range of partners.

World leaders have pledged to achieve the Millennium Development Goals , including the overarching goal of cutting poverty in half by 2015. UNDP's network links and coordinates global and national efforts to reach these Goals. Our focus is helping countries build and share solutions to the challenges of:

UNDP helps developing countries attract and use aid effectively. In all our activities, we encourage the protection of human rights and the empowerment of women.

UN Mine Action Service - United Nations - Top

United Nations Mine Action is the response of the United Nations system to the global landmine and unexploded ordnance (UXO) problem. The United Nations has been involved in humanitarian mine action activities since 1989, when a mine action programme was initiated in Afghanistan.

In recognition of the scope of the landmine problem and of the range of expertise required to address it, eleven United Nations Departments and Agencies are now involved in humanitarian mine action. They work under the overall coordination of the United Nations Mine Action Service (UNMAS) and share the common vision of a world safe from the threat of landmines, where economic and social development can occur free from the constraints imposed by landmine contamination, and where the needs of mine victims are addressed.

Activities in these areas are implemented at both the global level, and at the field level, where assistance programmes are now ongoing in thirty affected countries.

Since 1993, the role of the United Nations in mine action has been repeatedly reaffirmed and supported by Resolutions of the UN General Assembly, in particular the latest Resolution on Assistance in Mine Action (A/55/542).

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United Nations Mine Action Service
Two UN Plaza, DC2-610
New York, NY 10017
USA

Tel: (+1 212) 963-1875
Fax : (+1 212) 963-2498
E-mail: mineaction@un.org

UNOPS manages projects from start to finish. Or we can provide individual services, such as recruiting personnel, administering training, procuring goods and equipment, or contracting for services and works.

UNOPS also supervises projects and administers loans to ensure that our clients' objectives are met and money is well spent.

Demand is growing for our advisory services, especially in the fields of conflict prevention, peace building in the aftermath of war, and management reform.

United Nations Office for Project Services
Chrysler Building
405 Lexington Avenue, 4th Floor
New York, NY 10174

Vietnam Veterans of America Foundation - United State of America - Top

Vietnam Veterans of America Foundation (VVAF) is a Washington, D.C. based international humanitarian organization that addresses the causes, conduct, and consequences of war through its rehabilitation projects for victims of war, its landmine survey projects that assess the socio-economic consequences of landmines in some of the worlds most mine-affected nations and its public education and advocacy programs that deal with the changing nature of conflict as well as the effectiveness of international const raints on conflict.

Established by a dedicated group of Vietnam veterans in 1980, VVAF has transformed the experience of war suffered by America’s soldiers in Vietnam into a program of service to others.

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Vietnam Veterans of America Foundation
1725 Eye Street, NW, Fourth Floor
Washington, DC 20006-2412

Phone: 202-483-9222
Facsimile: 202-483-9312
E-mail: sac@vi.org