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IMMEDIATE OUTCOME 5 Regional cooperation furthers the exchange, and dissemination and adoption of good practice
Regional cooperation among mine action stakeholders within regions sharing a common language helps build confidence. It provides a space for exchanges of experiences and dialogue between national authorities, thereby encouraging south-south cooperation.
42 translations of IMAS in national / regional languages delivered 14 IMAS (French), 14 IMAS and T&EP (Russian), 14 IMAS (Arabic)
21 countries exchanged
ACHIEVEMENTS The GICHD’s regional cooperation programmes (ARCP, EECCA RCP, FRCP) continued to facilitate the exchange and adoption of good practice between NMAAs. Providing better access to guidelines and documents in local languages remained a major focus of the cooperation programmes. Through the translation of mine action documents into Arabic, Russian and French, mine action programmes from countries speaking these languages benefitted from easy access to the latest guidance on mine action. Facilitating the exchange of experiences and expertise between mine action programmes through the provision of a safe space for such exchanges was another priority for the regional cooperation platforms. The GICHD brought together mine action stakeholders from the same region to discuss specific issues and to build up confidence between these programmes. Such regional approaches are instrumental in fostering south-south cooperation. For example, in 2020, the ARCP conducted the first-of-its-kind regional quality management (QM) training course. Participants
and instructors had the opportunity to learn from one another about QM systems established in national programmes, to share information about challenges encountered across the region and ways to address them. Earlier in 2020, at the 23rd NDM-UN, the GICHD organised a francophone regional breakout group for African countries which called for greater regional cooperation, in particular on issues such as IEDs and EORE, for which new standards have been developed recently. LESSONS LEARNT T As the only mine action organisation working as a go-between among NMAAs at the regional level, the GICHD should continue playing a key role in providing means and a safe space to facilitate, promote, and support south-south cooperation. T The security situation in partner countries must be taken into account, as security threats are detrimental to smooth and effective partnerships and outcome delivery.
good practice through regional cooperation Armenia, Belarus, Benin, Burkina Faso, Central African Republic, Chad,
Egypt, Iraq, Jordan, Lebanon, Libya, Mali, Mauritania, Morocco,
Palestine, Russia, Somalia, Sudan, Tajikistan, Ukraine, Yemen 6 NMAA adopted good practice Armenia, Georgia, Somalia, Sudan, Tajikistan, Ukraine
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