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Regional cooperation furthers the exchange, dissemination and adoption of good practice
The exchange of expertise and good practice at the regional level and in shared languages encourages regional cooperation on common issues and challenges, generally enhancing the performance of mine action and ammunition management programmes. ACHIEVEMENTS The GICHD RCPs implement activities through three regional frameworks, the Arab RCP, the Francophone RCP and the Eastern Europe, Caucasus and Central Asia (EECCA) RCP, and in close collaboration with NMAAs. Under its RCPs, the GICHD focuses its efforts on facilitating the exchange and adoption of good practice among affected countries in local languages such as Arabic, French, and Russian in order to strengthen dialogue and cooperation at the regional level. In 2022, within the Arab RCP, the GICHD delivered a community of practice online workshop, organised an IMSMA Core Implementation workshop followed by two- week training course on IMSMA Core in Lebanon, together with Lebanon Mine Action Centre (LMAC), at the Regional School for Humanitarian Demining
in Lebanon (RSHDL) , and ran a three-day EORE workshop in Jordan. These efforts, together with the translation of chapter 5 in Arabic and French of the GICHD Improvised Explosive Device Clearance Good Practice Guide, supported the national authorities in enhancing the performance of their mine action programmes. As part of the Eastern Europe, Caucasus and Central Asia (EECCA) RCP, the GICHD conducted a visit to Azerbaijan. Its regional conference on the IATG in Georgia had to be postponed, however, owing to the conflict in Ukraine. Within the Francophone RCP, the GICHD organised its 2022 workshop in Benin at the Centre de Perfectionnement aux Actions de Déminage et de Dépollution (CPADD). LESSONS LEARNT T The GICHD plays a key role as a go-between organisation that stimulates, convenes, promotes and supports cooperation in the three regions. T The handover of a cooperation programme to a NMAA should be well planned, involve sufficient training and be done through a formal framework such as a memorandum of understanding. T Partnership agreements are an excellent way of promoting localisation and national ownership.
20 NMAAs / mine action programmes exchanged good practice Benin (CPADD), Burkina Faso, Central African Republic, Chad, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Egypt, Guinea-Bissau, Iraq, Jordan, Lebanon, Libya, Mali, Mauritania, Niger, Palestine, Senegal, Somalia, Sudan, Syrian Arab Republic, Yemen
4 NMAAs / mine action programmes adopted good practice Iraq, Lebanon, Somalia, Yemen 17 mine action resources /chapters of the IMAS translated into local languages 5 into Arabic, 12 into French
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