This is in stark contrast to the other demining / clearance units of CMAC which focus on large clearance sites, are inflexible in responding to changes in requirement, and which are logistically and administratively cumbersome.
According to Landmine Monitor, 17 agencies and organizations have been involved in demining and clearance operations since 1999.
(Section V.B.1) · Collaborate with NA personnel who prioritize areas for demining and clearance to ensure that injury data are being considered during the selection of priority areas.
State Department programs include both immediate post-conflict response and long-term assistance for affected states, including Afghanistan where the United States has had demining and ERW clearance programs since 1988.
Wartime demining was focused on clearance tasks in support of military operations and the safety of the civilian population.
This means there is often no option but to resort to the laborious and dangerous process of clearing mines manually.Humanitarian demining, as post-conflict mine clearance is known, is carried out by the army, non-governmental organisations (NGOs) and commercial companies.
Ingeborg Moa, the Myanmar country director for Norwegian People's Aid, one of the NGOs that's been actively advocating for demining in Myanmar, explained that clearance can only begin if both the government and the ethnic armed groups give the green light.
SIMAS, with support from the Swiss Foundation for Mine Action (FSD), has since been through a strenuous vetting process to become a United Nations-approved demining organization and now has two manual clearance teams and an explosive ordnance disposal team and a mechanical team who work to prepare the ground for deminers.
Demining is a slow and expensive process as clearance teams have to survey each field with metal detectors and then carefully blow up any devices they find.
In BiH there are currently 35 accredited organisations with over 3,000 deminers, 1,100 detectors, 90 dogs and 30 demining machines.
ANAMA cooperates with UN agencies, International NGOs and private demining companies as well as with Azeri Ministries and NGOs regarding impact surveys, mines clearance and Mine Risk Education.
