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INTERNATIONAL TRUST FUND FOR DEMINING AND MINE VICTIMS ASSISTANCE

INTERNATIONAL TRUST FUND FOR DEMINING AND MINE VICTIMS ASSISTANCE. Technology exchange as a measure of integration and confidence building in Humanitarian Mine Action in the Mediterranean region. Dorijan Maršič ITF Director. ITF BACKGROUND. Established in 1998 by Slovenian government;

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INTERNATIONAL TRUST FUND FOR DEMINING AND MINE VICTIMS ASSISTANCE

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  1. INTERNATIONAL TRUST FUND FOR DEMINING AND MINE VICTIMS ASSISTANCE

  2. Technology exchange as a measure of integration and confidence building in Humanitarian Mine Action in the Mediterranean region Dorijan Maršič ITF Director

  3. ITF BACKGROUND • Established in 1998 by Slovenian government; • Humanitarian, non-profit organisation; • Gradually widened geographical area of its activities; • Focus on South East Europe with prospects of strengthening its role outside SE Europe; • U.S. Matching Fund Mechanism for South East Europe; • New Strategy adopted in 2009

  4. ITF STRUCTURE • 1999 opened implementation office in Bosnia and Herzegovina; • 2001 opened implementation office in Croatia; • 2001-2003 Temporary Implementation Office in Macedonia; • 2006 temporary implementation office in Azerbaijan – in 2009 moved • to Georgia.

  5. ITF VISION ITF GOALS ITF vision is a world free of the threat from post-conflict challenges, including landmines, explosive remnants of war (ERW) and the illicit ownership and use of SALW, and where the security of individuals and communities is assured. • The ITF shall work with national authorities and in partnership with donors, NGOs, the private sector, international and regional organisations and others • Goal 1. to reduce the humanitarian and socio-economic threats from landmines and ERW. • Goal 2. to reduce the threats to human security from post-conflict challenges other than landmines and ERW, and to support conventional weapons destruction programmes. • Goal 3.to reduce the threats to human security from disruptive challanges.

  6. 2009 ITF STRATEGY 2009 - 2013 Goal 3 Goal 2 Goal 1 2010 2011 2012 2013

  7. ITF ACTIVITIES Mine / UXO clearance (demining, technical survey and battle area clerance); Mine / UXO victims assistance; Mine risk education / awareness; Support to national mine action capacities; Mine action related training; Regional cooperation through joint projects and SEEMACC / RASR; Destruction of stockpiled ammunition; Interconnect mine action projects within wider development projects.

  8. REGIONS OF ITF ACTIVITIES • South-Eastern Europe: • Albania • Bosnia and Herzegovina • Croatia • FYR Macedonia • Serbia • UNMIK/Kosovo • Montenegro • South Caucasus: • Armenia • Azerbaijan • Georgia • Middle East: • Gaza Strip • Iraq • Jordan* • Lebanon • Other Regions: • Colombia • Cyprus* • Central Asia and • proximity countries: • Tajikistan • Afghanistan* *Temporarily no active projects.

  9. ITF DONOR COMMUNITY PUBLIC DONORS ... PRIVATE DONORS ...

  10. ITF TREND OF DONATIONS 1999-2010 (2015) • ByJanuary 2011 a total of 329.994.183,91 USD raised. • Donors: 28 countries, EU and UNDP, over 10 local authorities and over 70 international organizations, privatecompanies, non-governmental organizations and individuals.

  11. ITF SHORT RECORD OF ACHIEVEMENTS (1998 – 2010) 329.994.183,91USDof donations raised by ITF 107.980.060square metres of land in SE Europe and theSouthCaucasus cleared through ITF 69.660 mines and UXO found and destroyed in the region of SE Europe 40.000and more children and adults included in MREprojects on yearly basis through ITF 2.565 completed projects 1.076 mine survivors rehabilitated through ITF 800individuals trained in the field of Mine Action(MVA, humanitarian demining, management) 130 plus public and private donors 28donor countries 18beneficiary countries/areas 4countries – Macedonia, Montenegro, Serbia and Albania – achieved Mine Freestatus 1 regional MA body – SEEMACC

  12. Europe → Spain → France → Monaco → Malta → Italy → Slovenia → Croatia → BH → Montenegro → Albania → Greece → Turkey → Cyprus → Asia → Syria → Lebanon → Israel → Africa → Egypt → Lybia →Tunisia → Algeria →Morocco. Note: countries are listed in order clockwise around the Mediterranean Sea.

  13. REGIONAL COOPERATION IN MINE ACTION • Regional cooperation: Exchange of experience, expertise and knowhow. • Resources: Cooperation prevents the duplication of resources and efforts—financial, physical, material and human. • Coordination and information: Interaction facilitates the exchange of effective and efficient solutions to unique or similar landmine problems. • Social: Social networking and confidence building between counterparts in the region encourages current—as well as future—cooperation efforts. • Capacity-building: Cooperation augments institutional capacities, and if established institutions can help those with less experience and stability. • Cross-cutting: Mine-action activities can • aid other regional issues, such as border • security, development and commerce.

  14. OVERVIEW OF ITF REGIONAL PROJECTS • Regional humanitarian demining projects - cross-border clearance • (Albania& Bosnia and Herzegovina & Croatia & Montenegro & Serbia) • Donors: European Union, United States • Regional institutional capacities – structure support (MDDC, RCUD, CROMAC CTDT, GIS...) • Donors: European Union, the Czech Republic, Slovenia, United States • Regional trainings (humanitarian demining & EOD, underwater EOD, Management Trainings, GIS, rehabilitation & victim assistance, IPDET...) • Donors: ER, the Czech Republic, France, Hungary, Slovenia and U.S. • Regional workshops, conferences and other (various fields: MDD, VA, mech. clearance, RASR, SEEMACC, “CAMACC”, confidence building, Telemedicine, AI DSS) • Donors: EU, Canada, the Czech Republic, Hungary, the Netherlands, Norway, OSCE OiT, Slovenia and US.

  15. SEEMACC, CAMACC, RASR • in November 2000 on the initiative of countries of South-Eastern Europe (Croatia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, and Albania) and ITF – establishment of South East Europe Mine Action Coordination Council – SEEMACC. • Plays an important role in coordination of joint projects in the region of SEE and is becoming a role model of regional cooperation throughout the world. • In 2009, OSCE endorsed the idea of establishing the Central Asian Mine Action Coordination Council and a multi-phase project of establishment is now undergoing. • Actively involved in US Department of State initiative – Regional Approach to Stockpile Reduction in the region of SEE (RASR)

  16. SEEMAC GOALS • Exchange of experience, expertise and know-howin the field of mine action in the region of South East Europe; • Promote the regional approach in the planning of demining programs; • Promote the regional approach in the fund raising for mine action; • Exchange experience, expertise and knowledge in the field of training of the deminers and managing personnel in the field of mine action; • Exchange information on testing of the new technologies in demining; • Promote the achievement of common standards and accreditation proceduresin the field of demining in the region of South East Europe.

  17. REGIONAL COOPERATION SEEMACC Kazakhstan Bosnia and Herzegovina Croatia

  18. GAZA STRIP • Initiative by Slovenian President Dr. Danilo Türk • Implementing Partner – University Rehabilitation Institute Republic • of Slovenia (URI-Soča) • After last conflict 1.314 casualties and 5.380 injured – 1872 • children/800 women • ITFrehabilitated 63 children in Slovenia and trained 10 local • physiotherapists • In preparation a 5-year plan to develop • and support local rehabilitation capacities • in Gaza Strip

  19. TELEMEDICINE NETWORK IN MIDDLE EAST COUNTRIES • Program aims to create a sophisticated and integrated multinational Middle Eastern Telemedicine Network for application of telemedicine and advanced technologies in the prevention, treatment and rehabilitation of victims of landmines and unexploded ordnance, improvised explosive devices and other causes of trauma and major injuries. • ITF, League of Arab States and Embassy of the Republic of Slovenia in Cairo organized Conference “Telemedicine, Mine Action and Development”in September 2010 at the Headquarters of the League of Arab States in Cairo, where program was presented to relevant stakeholders and potential donors. • ITF is still raising fundsto implement this project.

  20. REGIONAL MINE SUSPECTED AREA REDUCTION PROGRAMME • In order to diminish enormous surfaces of mine suspected areas (MSA) in SEE and elsewhere the Croatian scientific community in partnership with ITF, CROMAC and CROMAC Centre for Testing, Development and Training Ltd. (CTDT) developed a unique Decision Support System for MSAReduction. • Advanced IntelligenceDSS) is the first fully operational solution for the assessment of the MSA, based on the airborne and space borne remote sensing combined with advanced intelligence methodology, which passed stringent operational validation. • Ratio of CROMAC’s conventional technology cost to the cost of AI DSS technology 141.83 : 1. • Used in Bosnia and Herzegovina • and Croatia.

  21. CONVENTIONAL CLEARANCE METHODS • Humanitarian demining includes activities that lead to the removal of mine andUXO hazards, including technical survey, mapping, clearance, marking, post-clearance documentation and handover of cleared land. • Manual demining: mines are manually detected and • neutralized by a human deminers (using metal • detectors and long thin prodders). • The use of dogs: dogs detect the presence of • explosives in the ground by smell. Dogs are used in • combination with humandeminers. • Mechanical demining: use of mothorized • mine-clearers, flails, rollers, vegetation cutters • and excavators.

  22. MODERN CLEARANCE METHODS • The use of animals, insects and bacteria : • Rats, bees, pigs and genetically engineered • bacteria. • Robots and humanitarian demining: this method is still developing. Demining robots face two major challenges: First they must be able totraverse rough terrain and secondly their costs have to be competitive to current manual demining procedures.

  23. POSSIBLE REGIONAL PROJECTS IN MEDITERRANEAN REGION • Cross border demining / UWO / ERW clearance; • Victims assistance; • Risk education; • Structure support; • Mine action related trainings and workshops; • Advance Intelligence Decision Support System for MSAReduction. • Technology exchange is applicable to all above mentioned projects • Encouraging regional cooperation is an important confidence-building measure, particularly in countries emerging from conflict.

  24. THANKYOU! www.itf-fund.si

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