EXECUTIVE SUMMARY
The Geneva International Centre for Humanitarian Demining (GICHD) works to reduce risks to communities stemming from explosive ordnance. Guided by its new four-year Strategy (2023–2026), in 2024 the Centre will continue to help develop and professionalise explosive ordnance risk reduction (EORR) 1 for the benefit of its partners. It will do so by providing four distinct and mutually reinforcing lines of service: generating knowledge, disseminating knowledge, supporting the codification of knowledge, as well as fostering partnerships, dialogue and cooperation.
The Centre will continue to rely on a results-based management system to measure progress against its objectives and outcomes and to guide its planning and report on results. Such a system, which the Centre has implemented since 2015 and continuously refined and improved, is underpinned by a Theory of Change which defines strategic objectives and measurable outcomes supported by a monitoring framework. As outlined in this report, support for the development of capacities of national and international partners will remain a priority of the Centre’s work in 2024. Such support will be provided in thematic areas relevant to explosive ordnance risk reduction, such as: strategic planning; gender, diversity, equality, and inclusion (GDEI); explosive ordnance risk education (EORE); research and innovation; national standards development; and information management (IM).
In line with its traditional role, the GICHD will also continue to support both the mine action-related conventions and broader multilateral processes on conventional arms and ammunition, by bringing field evidence and expertise to the forums where norms are developed, and their implementation is fostered and monitored. The GICHD will continue to invest in and rely on tools aiming to facilitate the remote delivery of capacity development and technical advice, as a complement to its more traditional practices of knowledge dissemination based on face-to-face interaction. These blended methods of knowledge delivery increase access by national actors and hard-to-reach beneficiaries. Finally, with more than 90 staff from around 30 countries and speaking several languages, the GICHD continues to bring diverse backgrounds and expertise to its partners.
Ambassador Stefano Toscano GICHD Director
1 For the GICHD, ‘explosive ordnance risk reduction’ comprises mine action and ammunition management activities that are designed to reduce the risks posed to communities by all types of explosive ordnance.
GICHD OUTLOOK REPORT 2024
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