Surveys - Completed Surveys - Chad

Background

The United Nations Mine Action Service (UNMAS), following a joint, interdisciplinary assessment mission to Chad, issued a formal request for a survey to the Survey Action Center (SAC). SAC contracted Handicap International/France to perform an Advance Survey Mission (ASM) in July 1999. The ASM reconfirmed the findings of the UN mission and SAC developed a country plan.

Funding

The US Department of State (US DOS), the Department for International Development (DFID) of the United Kingdom, Handicap International/France, Vietnam Veterans of America Foundation and and the United Nations Foundation are funding the Chad survey.

Implementing Organization

SAC subcontracted Handicap International/France (HI), a member of the Survey Working Group (SWG), to implement the Landmine Impact Survey (LIS) in Chad. The UN Office for Project Services (UNOPS) provided the Quality Assurance Monitoring (QAM).

Field survey team members

Operational Status

HI/France deployed the Team Leader and Deputy Team Leader to N'Djamena in late November 1999. The Administration and Logistics Officer followed in December and the Information Management Officer in January 2000. The team secured facilities and established working relationships with the United Nations Development Program (UNDP) and the Chadian Commission for National Demining (HCND). SAC and HI/Chad negotiated and signed a formal Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) with the government of Chad in February 2000. At the same time they began recruiting, hiring and training national staff (Phase I - Planning, Preparation and Establishment).

The team secured facilities and established working relationships with the United Nations Development Program (UNDP) and the Chadian Commission for National Demining (HCND). SAC and HI/Chad negotiated and signed a formal Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) with the government of Chad in February 2000. At the same time they began recruiting, hiring and training national staff (Phase I - Planning, Preparation and Establishment).

Training of Supervisors, Field Editors and Enumerators was conducted from mid-March through early May 2000. SAC Planning Officer Bill Barron traveled to Chad during August and assisted HI in conduct of the Operational Review following the Pilot Survey. The survey then has deployed trained teams to five major regions in Chad.

Data collection started in the northern and northwestern regions of the country in the beginning of September. Data collection then followed in the southern, eastern and central regions after the rainy season at the end of September. Survey Operations was completed in May 2001 and certified by the United Nations Certification Committee chaired by United Nations Mine Action Service (UNMAS) in August 2001.

At the request of HCND in Chad, SAC and Cranfield University Mine Action (CMA) began a Survey Utilization Project (SUP) in April of 2001. The intent of the SUP is to facilitate HCND development of a nation strategic mine action plan.

More Information

For more information about the Chad Survey, feel free to contact the Survey Action Center (SAC) or Handicap-International (HI).

Survey Action Center
6930 Carroll Avenue, Suite 240
Takoma Park, MD 20912
United States of America
Phone: +1.301.891.9192
Fax: +1.301.891.9193
E-mail: sac@sac-na.org