SECTION 4 – THREAT SUMMARY
Once an operational threat assessment, following the guidance in IMAS 07.14 Risk Management in Mine Action, Annex C, has been completed, it should be inserted into the clearance plan as a threat summary. This threat summary should detail the most likely cases for the category and subcategories of IEDs that could be present in specifically assessed areas. This should specify the composition of component parts, their configuration, and location including depth or elevation. It is useful to express this in terms of most likely and worst case, especially if anti-disturbance, multiple or secondary devices are a threat.
The threat summary should clearly state:
WHO?
Who placed, dropped or threw the IED(s)?
WHO?
Who was the target?
WHAT?
What are the components and layout of the IED?
WHEN?
When was the IED(s) placed, dropped or thrown?
WHERE?
Where is the IED(s) located?
WHY?
Why is the IED there? What was it intended to achieve or target?
ׁ HINT. If there is a lack of information for a detailed threat summary, stating what is most likely NOT to be present or most likely locations to NOT have contamination will also aid search.
ׁ REMEMBER. Annex C2 provides a useful form to assist in operational threat assessment.
SECTION 5 – SECURITY RISK ASSESSMENT
This should include the current situation and its likelihood for change on, to and from the MA task site. It should also include the potential for unauthorised access, whether this includes malicious intent towards the MA organisation or not.
SECTION 6 – OUTCOMES AND BENEFICIARIES
The indicators for outcomes and beneficiaries vary between countries and possibly tasks. Suitable indicators should be established in consultation with the NMAA and donors. A benefit outcome could be expressed as a value of power output, for example ‘15 megawatts’ or even better, watts per number of community residences. Where a task is a site of critical infrastructure such as a hospital, its value could be expressed as providing for the specific town or district. Care should be taken to prevent exaggerating the direct and indirect beneficiaries of a task site. Sites that provide employment such as a factory should be expressed in the number of employees and as these may number in the thousands it would be difficult and costly to ascertain how many dependents they have. There is a significant number of other potential indirect beneficiaries such as suppliers, transport companies and customers who will also be affected, but again this is likely to be difficult to measure. A process to monitor land use following the end of the clearance task should be properly planned and agreed between the different parties.
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