AREAS OF STRATEGIC GROWTH
the work being done by the Standards and Operations Efficiency divisions. After much consideration, a decision was made that these two divisions would merge under one large division now known as the Standards and Operations division. This restructuring of two core divisions within the mine action programmes enabled a more coherent approach to the delivery of the projects, ensuring the correct timing and sequencing between adopted standards (codification of knowledge) and follow up operational aspects, such as training (dissemination of knowledge). The merging of the two divisions also allowed for a rebalancing and redistribution of some major work that the divisions were engaged in, such as, long term risk management, training and research.
These changes have allowed for greater volumes of work to take place in the area of strategic planning and have notably improved the inter-divisional planning and activities at the country level. The GICHD will continue carefully to assess the need and potential for additional growth and the internal positioning of the strategic planning programme as the needs to develop strategic plans beyond mine action (e.g. ammunition management) continue to grow. STANDARDS AND OPERATIONS With elevation and repositioning of the Strategic Planning Programme, the Centre also looked at other divisions’ growing work and areas where the economies of scale could be born to achieve greater efficiency and effectiveness. One such area was to bring closer together
2020 marked the second year of the GICHD’s four-year Strategy 2019–2022. The strategy calls for both continuity and change, with the consolidation of existing areas of work and the development of new programmes. STRATEGIC PLANNING A consensus has emerged within the mine action sector about the importance that solid strategic plans play in delivering a mine action programme in a given country. The need for the GICHD to support affected states to develop strategic plans has grown exponentially to a point where the demand was significantly higher than our capacity to supply. Therefore, over the course of 2020, the GICHD decided to strengthen the strategic planning team to meet such demand. The strengthening of the team was done by:
i. Adding additional human resources capacity to the team to ensure that a greater number of strategies could be developed and reviewed with National Authorities concurrently.
ii. Elevating strategic planning to become a fully-fledged programme within the GICHD reporting directly to the Chief of Mine Action Programmes. Thereby, the new programme would play a greater cross-cutting role within the Centre, thus enabling its overall activities in a given country to be underpinned by the very strategy that the Centre helped develop.
PfP IMAS and Compliance workshop
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