INTERNATIONAL TRUST FUND FOR DEMINING AND MINE VICTIMS ASSISTANCE

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• INTERNATIONAL TRUST FUND FOR DEMINING AND MINE
  VICTIMS ASSISTANCE

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Technology exchange as a measure of integration
and confidence building in Humanitarian Mine
Action in the Mediterranean region
Dorijan Maršic ITF Director
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ITF BACKGROUND

• Established in 1998 by Slovenian government
• Humanitarian, non-profit organisation
• Gradually widened geographical area of its
  activities
• Focus on South East Europe with prospects of
  strengthening its role outside SE Europe
• U.S. Matching Fund Mechanism for South East
  Europe
• New Strategy adopted in 2009

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ITF STRUCTURE

• 1999 opened implementation office in Bosnia
  and Herzegovina
• 2001 opened implementation office in Croatia
• 2001-2003 Temporary Implementation Office in
  Macedonia
• 2006 temporary implementation office in
  Azerbaijan in 2009 moved
• to Georgia.

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ITF GOALS
ITF VISION
ITF vision is a world free of the threat from
post-conflict challenges, including landmines,
explosive remnants of war (ERW) and the illicit
ownership and use of SALW, and where the security
of individuals and communities is assured.

• The ITF shall work with national authorities and
  in partnership with donors, NGOs, the private
  sector, international and regional organisations
  and others
• Goal 1. to reduce the humanitarian and
  socio-economic threats from landmines and ERW.
• Goal 2. to reduce the threats to human security
  from post-conflict challenges other than
  landmines and ERW, and to support conventional
  weapons destruction programmes.
• Goal 3. to reduce the threats to human security
  from disruptive challanges.

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ITF STRATEGY 2009 - 2013
Goal 3
Goal 2
Goal 1

• 2009

2010
2011
2012
2013
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ITF ACTIVITIES

1. Mine / UXO clearance (demining, technical survey
   and battle area clerance)
2. Mine / UXO victims assistance
3. Mine risk education / awareness
4. Support to national mine action capacities
5. Mine action related training
6. Regional cooperation through joint projects and
   SEEMACC / RASR
7. Destruction of stockpiled ammunition
8. Interconnect mine action projects within wider
   development projects.

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REGIONS OF ITF ACTIVITIES

• South-Eastern Europe
• Albania
• Bosnia and Herzegovina
• Croatia
• FYR Macedonia
• Serbia
• UNMIK/Kosovo
• Montenegro
• South Caucasus
• Armenia
• Azerbaijan
• Georgia

• Middle East
• Gaza Strip
• Iraq
• Jordan
• Lebanon
• Other Regions
• Colombia
• Cyprus

• Central Asia and
• proximity countries
• Tajikistan
• Afghanistan

Temporarily no active projects.
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ITF DONOR COMMUNITY
PUBLIC DONORS
...
PRIVATE DONORS
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ITF TREND OF DONATIONS 1999-2010 (2015)

• By January 2011 a total of 329.994.183,91 USD
  raised.
• Donors 28 countries, EU and UNDP, over 10 local
  authorities and over 70 international
  organizations, private companies,
  non-governmental organizations and individuals.

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ITF SHORT RECORD OF ACHIEVEMENTS (1998 2010)
329.994.183,91 USD of donations
raised by ITF 107.980.060
square metres of land in SE Europe and the South
Caucasus cleared through ITF
69.660 mines and UXO found and
destroyed in the region of
SE Europe 40.000
and more children and adults included in MRE
projects on yearly basis through ITF  
2.565 completed
projects 1.076 mine survivors
rehabilitated through ITF 800
individuals trained in the field of Mine Action
(MVA, humanitarian demining,
management) 130 plus public and
private donors
28 donor countries 18 beneficiary
countries/areas
4 countries Macedonia, Montenegro,
Serbia and Albania
achieved Mine Free status
1 regional MA
body SEEMACC

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Europe ? Spain ? France ? Monaco ? Malta ? Italy
? Slovenia ? Croatia ? BH ? Montenegro ? Albania
? Greece ? Turkey ? Cyprus ? Asia ? Syria ?
Lebanon ? Israel ? Africa ? Egypt ? Lybia
?Tunisia ? Algeria ?Morocco. Note countries
are listed in order clockwise around the
Mediterranean Sea.
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COUNTRY / SITUATION SPAIN FRANCE MONACO MALTA ITALY SLOVENIA
COUNTRY / SITUATION Current Situation Current Situation Current Situation Current Situation Current Situation Current Situation
Mine /UXO contaminated area / / / / Minor UXO contamination Minor UXO contamination
ERW contaminated area / / / / / /
Cluster munition (CM) contaminated area / / / small threat / /
No. of mine / UXO / ERW / CM casualties / / / 1 / /
Stockpile 1.797 AP mines 862 CM (training and development purposes) 4.539 AP mines (training and development purposes) 35.000 CM (destruction phase) / / 674 AP mines (training and development purposes) CM (no precize data destruction phase) 1.991 AP mines (training and development purposes) 1.080 CM (destruction phase)

COUNTRY / SITUATION CROATIA BOSNIA AND HERZEGOVINA MONTENEGRO ALBANIA GREECE TURKEY
COUNTRY / SITUATION Current Situation Current Situation Current Situation Current Situation Current Situation Current Situation
Mine/UXO contaminated area 887 km2 1.482 km2 0 (MINE FREE), 0,03 km2 UXO/ERW 0 (MINE FREE), 0,53 km2 UXO/ERW Gerdec Border area with Turkey Major extent on border areas, especially with Syria-179 km2
ERW contaminated area Yes (no precize data) Over 1 km2 ? ? 400 km2 areas suspected with ERW/UXO in 2008 Yes (no precize data)
Cluster munition (CM) contaminated area 4,27 km2 12 km2 0,25 km2 CM FREE / /
No. of mine / UXO / ERW / CM casualties At elast 1.920 (1991-2009), 1.420 survivors alive in 2010 At least 7.431 (1992-2009), 5.703 survivors alive in 2010 Unknown, 260 survivors alive in 2004 Unknown, 824 survivors alive in 2010 At least 108 (1999-2008), number of survivors alive is unknown At least 6.360 (1984-2009), number of survivors alive is unknown
Stockpile 6.038 AP mines (training and development purposes) CM (no precize data destruction phase) 2.239 AP mines (training and research purposes), CM (no precize data) 273 CM (destruction phase) 90 million kg of surplus dangerous munitions 6.158 AP mines (training and development purposes) CM (no precize data) 15.100 AP mines (training and development purposes) CM (no precize data)
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COUNTRY / SITUATION CYPRUS SYRIA LEBANON ISRAEL EGYPT LIBYA
COUNTRY / SITUATION Current Situation Current Situation Current Situation Current Situation Current Situation Current Situation
Mine /UXO contaminated area 8 km2 Heavily contaminated Golan Heights other areas 74 km2 33 km2 2.680 km2 (no reliable figures) Yes (unknown extent)
ERW contaminated area Minor limited contamination Yes (no precize data) Yes (no precize data) Yes (across military training areas in Negev region) Yes (eastern areas) Yes (unknown extent)
Cluster munition (CM) contaminated area / Yes (no precize data) 23 km2 Not known Yes (unknown extent) Yes (unknown extent)
No. of mine / UXO / ERW / CM casualties At least 8 (1999-2009), number of survivors alive is unknown 601 (1967-2010), 210-330 survivors alive in 2008 3.857 (1975-2009) 2.897 survivors alive in 2010 7 (1999-2009), number of survivors alive is unknown At least 8.313 (since 1982), 900 survivors alive in 2010 Different figures up to 12.258, several thousand survivors alive in 2010
Stockpile 994 AP mines (training and development purposes) Mines and CM (no precize data on extent) Mines for trainings (less than the max number permitted by the Mine Ban Treaty) AP mines and CM (unknown extent) Large mine stockpile CM (unknown extent) No mines (statement of Libya), CM (unknown extent)

COUNTRY / SITUATION TUNISIA ALGERIA MOROCCO Source Landmine Monitor Report 2008-2010 Source Landmine Monitor Report 2008-2010 Source Landmine Monitor Report 2008-2010
COUNTRY / SITUATION Current Situation Current Situation Current Situation Source Landmine Monitor Report 2008-2010 Source Landmine Monitor Report 2008-2010 Source Landmine Monitor Report 2008-2010
Mine/UXO contaminated area Reported mine free (2009), but problem still exists Yes (unknown extent) border areas and north pf the country 120.000 km2 contaminated with mines/ERW Source Landmine Monitor Report 2008-2010 Source Landmine Monitor Report 2008-2010 Source Landmine Monitor Report 2008-2010
ERW contaminated area Significant contamination (unknown extent) Yes (unknown extent) ? Source Landmine Monitor Report 2008-2010 Source Landmine Monitor Report 2008-2010 Source Landmine Monitor Report 2008-2010
Cluster munition (CM) contaminated area Not known No evidence for that Yes (unknown extent Source Landmine Monitor Report 2008-2010 Source Landmine Monitor Report 2008-2010 Source Landmine Monitor Report 2008-2010
No. of mine / UXO / ERW / CM casualties At least 16 (1999-2009), at least 15 survivors alive in 2009 6.762 (1962-2009), 3.526 survivors still living in 2009 2.187 (1975-2008), 1.643 survivors still living in 2009 Source Landmine Monitor Report 2008-2010 Source Landmine Monitor Report 2008-2010 Source Landmine Monitor Report 2008-2010
Stockpile 4.975 AP mines (training and development purposes) Possible CM 5,970 AP mines (training purposes) CM (unknown extent) AP mines for training and peacekeeping operations CM (unknown extent) Source Landmine Monitor Report 2008-2010 Source Landmine Monitor Report 2008-2010 Source Landmine Monitor Report 2008-2010
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REGIONAL COOPERATION IN MINE ACTION

• Regional cooperation Exchange of experience,
  expertise and know how.
• Resources Cooperation prevents the duplication
  of resources and effortsfinancial, physical,
  material and human.
• Coordination and information Interaction
  facilitates the exchange of effective and
  efficient solutions to unique or similar landmine
  problems.
• Social Social networking and confidence building
  between counterparts in the region encourages
  currentas well as futurecooperation efforts.
• Capacity-building Cooperation augments
  institutional capacities, and if established
  institutions can help those with less experience
  and stability.
• Cross-cutting Mine-action activities can
• aid other regional issues, such as border
• security, development and commerce.

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OVERVIEW OF ITF REGIONAL PROJECTS

• Regional humanitarian demining projects -
  cross-border clearance
• (Albania Bosnia and Herzegovina Croatia
  Montenegro Serbia)
• Donors European Union, United States
• Regional institutional capacities structure
  support (MDDC, RCUD, CROMAC CTDT, GIS...)
• Donors European Union, the Czech Republic,
  Slovenia, United States
• Regional trainings (humanitarian demining EOD,
  underwater EOD, Management Trainings, GIS,
  rehabilitation victim assistance, IPDET...)
• Donors ER, the Czech Republic, France,
  Hungary, Slovenia and U.S.
• Regional workshops, conferences and other
  (various fields MDD, VA, mech. clearance, RASR,
  SEEMACC, CAMACC, confidence building,
  Telemedicine, AI DSS)
• Donors EU, Canada, the Czech Republic,
  Hungary, the Netherlands, Norway, OSCE OiT,
  Slovenia and US.

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SEEMACC, CAMACC, RASR

• in November 2000 on the initiative of countries
  of South-Eastern Europe (Croatia, Bosnia and
  Herzegovina, and Albania) and ITF establishment
  of South East Europe Mine Action Coordination
  Council SEEMACC.
• Plays an important role in coordination of joint
  projects in the region of SEE and is becoming a
  role model of regional cooperation throughout the
  world.
• In 2009, OSCE endorsed the idea of establishing
  the Central Asian Mine Action Coordination
  Council and a multi-phase project of
  establishment is now undergoing.
• Actively involved in US Department of State
  initiative Regional Approach to Stockpile
  Reduction in the region of SEE (RASR)

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SEEMAC GOALS

• Exchange of experience, expertise and know-how in
  the field of mine action in the region of South
  East Europe
• Promote the regional approach in the planning of
  demining programs 
• Promote the regional approach in the fund raising
  for mine action
• Exchange experience, expertise and knowledge in
  the field of training of the deminers and
  managing personnel in the field of mine action
• Exchange information on testing of the new
  technologies in demining
• Promote the achievement of common standards and
  accreditation procedures in the field of demining
  in the region of South East Europe.

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REGIONAL COOPERATION
SEEMACC
Kazakhstan
Bosnia and Herzegovina
Croatia
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GAZA STRIP

• Initiative by Slovenian President Dr. Danilo
  Türk
• Implementing Partner University Rehabilitation
  Institute Republic
• of Slovenia (URI-Soca)
• After last conflict 1.314 casualties and 5.380
  injured 1872
• children/800 women
• ITFrehabilitated 63 children in Slovenia and
  trained 10 local
• physiotherapists
• In preparation a 5-year plan to develop
• and support local rehabilitation capacities
• in Gaza Strip

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TELEMEDICINE NETWORK IN MIDDLE EAST COUNTRIES

• Program aims to create a sophisticated and
  integrated multinational Middle Eastern
  Telemedicine Network for application of
  telemedicine and advanced technologies in the
  prevention, treatment and rehabilitation of
  victims of landmines and unexploded ordnance,
  improvised explosive devices and other causes of
  trauma and major injuries.
• ITF, League of Arab States and Embassy of the
  Republic of Slovenia in Cairo organized
  Conference Telemedicine, Mine Action and
  Developmentin September 2010 at the Headquarters
  of the League of Arab States in Cairo, where
  program was presented to relevant stakeholders
  and potential donors.
• ITF is still raising funds to implement this
  project.

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REGIONAL MINE SUSPECTED AREA REDUCTION PROGRAMME

• In order to diminish enormous surfaces of mine
  suspected areas (MSA) in SEE and elsewhere the
  Croatian scientific community in partnership with
  ITF, CROMAC and CROMAC Centre for Testing,
  Development and Training Ltd. (CTDT) developed a
  unique Decision Support System for MSA Reduction.
• Advanced Intelligence DSS) is the first fully
  operational solution for the assessment of the
  MSA, based on the airborne and space borne remote
  sensing combined with advanced intelligence
  methodology, which passed stringent operational
  validation.
• Ratio of CROMACs conventional technology cost to
  the cost of AI DSS technology 141.83 1.
• Used in Bosnia and Herzegovina
• and Croatia.

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CONVENTIONAL CLEARANCE METHODS

• Humanitarian demining includes activities that
  lead to the removal of mine and UXO hazards,
  including technical survey, mapping, clearance,
  marking, post-clearance documentation and
  handover of cleared land.
• Manual demining mines are manually detected and
• neutralized by a human deminers (using metal
• detectors and long thin prodders).
• The use of dogs dogs detect the presence of
• explosives in the ground by smell. Dogs are used
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• combination with human deminers.
• Mechanical demining use of mothorized
• mine-clearers, flails, rollers, vegetation
  cutters
• and excavators.

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MODERN CLEARANCE METHODS

• The use of animals, insects and bacteria
• Rats, bees, pigs and genetically engineered
• bacteria.
• Robots and humanitarian demining this method is
  still developing. Demining robots face two major
  challenges First they must be able to traverse
  rough terrain and secondly their costs have to be
  competitive to current manual demining
  procedures.

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POSSIBLE REGIONAL PROJECTS IN MEDITERRANEAN
REGION

• Cross border demining / UWO / ERW clearance
• Victims assistance
• Risk education
• Structure support
• Mine action related trainings and workshops
• Advance Intelligence Decision Support System for
  MSA Reduction.
• Technology exchange is applicable to all above
  mentioned projects
• Encouraging regional cooperation is an important
  confidence-building measure, particularly in
  countries emerging from conflict.

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