GLOBAL FRAMEWORK
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Implementation of Conventions is fostered through the provision of expertise and logistical support
Logistical and evidence-based substantive support promotes the efficient, effective, relevant and inclusive implementation of the Anti-Personnel Mine Ban Convention, the Convention on Cluster Munitions and the Convention on Certain Conventional Weapons. ACHIEVEMENTS In 2022, the GICHD continued to provide expert input and logistical support to the APMBC, CCM and the Convention on Certain Conventional Weapons (CCW). The Centre contributed to the submission of high-quality extension requests by Serbia, Sudan, Thailand and Yemen under the APMBC and Bosnia and Herzegovina, Chad and Chile under the CCM, providing comments on LR methodologies, IM, EORE and GDI. The GICHD actively participated in all official meetings of the conventions, delivering statements on issues such as clearance and EORE, cooperation and assistance, GDI and improvised explosive devices and giving presentations on the empowerment of women in mine action, the concept of ‘all reasonable effort’, the contribution of ammunition management to implementation of Protocol V to the CCW and the links between mine action and the SDGs. The Centre also participated in meetings of convention implementation machinery, such as the APMBC Coordinating
Committee, the CCM Article 4 Analysis Group and the informal Gender and Diversity Working Group. In May 2022, the latter group organised an online workshop, attended by about 100 people, to identify challenges to and good practices in the mainstreaming of GD in mine action from the perspectives of States, donors, operators and survivor organisations. A factsheet on GD in the CCM was also produced and launched jointly with UNIDIR. The GICHD continued to facilitate the effective functioning of the Conventions by providing logistical support for the organisation of APMBC and CCM intersessional meetings and the management of the APMBC, CCM and CCW sponsorship programmes and by hosting the APMBC and CCM ISUs and managing their Trust Funds. LESSONS LEARNT T Greater donor coordination is required to ensure that funding provided in emergency contexts is not mobilised at the expense of support to States that need a final push to meet their convention obligations. The GICHD is ideally placed to play a role in this respect. T There is still a need to present clear arguments
7 extension requests reflecting GICHD input submitted under the APMBC (Serbia, Sudan, Thailand, Yemen) and the CCM (Bosnia and Herzegovina, Chad, Chile) 3 States supported in APMBC implementation using a country-focused and individualised approach Chad, Cambodia, South Sudan
60 references to GICHD substantive (44) and logistical (16) support in statements or other types of intervention by 35 States / partners Australia, Austria, Belgium, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Canada, Chad, Chile, Colombia, Ethiopia, Germany, Guinea Bissau, Guyana, Haiti, Iraq, Ireland, Italy, Jordan, Lebanon, Netherlands (Kingdom of the), Norway, Serbia, Sri Lanka,
Spain, Somalia, Sudan, Sweden, Switzerland,
Tajikistan, Turkey, Uganda, Ukraine, United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, Yemen, Zimbabwe, APMBC ISU
and evidence of why GD considerations are important in mine action at both the policy and implementation levels.
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