Project profile — Capacity Development Support for Integrated Mine Action in Eastern Ukraine

• Ukraine (100.00%)

• Conflict Prevention And Resolution, Peace And Security: Removal of land mines and explosive remnants of war (15250) (100.00%)

• Gender equality (significant objective)
• Environmental sustainability (cross-cutting) (not targeted)
• Participatory development and good governance (not targeted)
• Trade development (not targeted)
• Biodiversity (not targeted)
• Climate change mitigation (not targeted)
• Climate Change Adaptation (not targeted)
• Urban issues (not targeted)
• Desertification (not targeted)
• Children's issues (not targeted)
• Youth Issues (not targeted)
• Disaster Risk Reduction(DRR) (not targeted)
• Indigenous Issues (not targeted)
• Disability (not targeted)
• Nutrition (not targeted)
• ICT as a tool for development (not targeted)

The project aims to support the Government of Ukraine in establishing a comprehensive, well coordinated, and gender-sensitive mine action response. The project also works to provide strategic capacity development support for mine action to enhance integrated planning, coordination, and operational efficiencies amongst the different mine action stakeholders presently active at national level and in eastern Ukraine (Donetsk and Luhansk oblasts). Project activities include: (1) enhancing mine risks prevention through an improved education framework; (2) improving mine action information management, through a system of systematic local information gathering, and feeding into the Information Management System for Mine Action ; (3) establishing effective capacities (including planning procedures and support service packages) for mines clearance and assistance to mines’ survivors; (4) providing advice and capacity building to new mine action centres (national and regional) as per the recently passed legislation; and (5) continuing effective coordination of mine action operational activities in support of the Government of Ukraine through the Protection Cluster (Mine Action sub-cluster).

The expected outcomes for this project include: (1) conflict affected communities benefit from strengthened community security and sustained peace; (2) women, girls, men, and boys in territories affected, or at risk of being affected by landmines and explosive remnants of war in conflict affected areas enjoy equal access to quality age, gender, and disability sensitive services; and (3) the capacities of Ukrainian mine action institutions at the national level and in eastern Ukraine as well as territorial communities and civil society are developed to effectively plan, deliver, and coordinate mine action activities.

Results achieved as of the end of the project (June 2023) include: (1) provided relevant equipment to the mine action centres. This supports humanitarian clearance activities and the personnel capacity through targeted capacity developing activities; (2) provided the operational staff of the Ministry of Defence’s National Mine Action Centre with a series of specialized courses prescribed by Ukrainian legislation. This enables the staff to conduct accreditation and quality inspections of mine action operators; (3) provided 7,068 people ( 61% women and girls) residing in 130 settlements in Donetsk and Luhansk regions with explosive ordnance risk education sessions. 72 settlements participated through online sessions; (4) developed a gender handbook for Mine Action Operators to provide guidelines on gender mainstreaming in four components of mine action: demining, explosive ordnance risk awareness, advocacy, and victim assistance; and (5) developed and launched an online training platform to increase the capacity of mine risk education trainers.

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