Where we work

Landmine Action currently conducts operational programmes in Guinea Bissau, Liberia and Western Sahara.

Research work covers a much wider geographical area focusing on countries including Iraq, Kosovo, Pakistan, Laos and Lebanon.

Landmine Action’s work with international organisations including the Cluster Munition Coalition (CMC), and within international fora such the UN Convention on Certain Conventional Weapons (CCW) further extends our geographical impact.

Guinea Bissau:
In September 2006 and January 2007, Landmine Action undertook an assessment of landmine and ERW contamination in Guinea Bissau and national capacity to address the problem. Landmine Action subsequently commenced a clearance programme in April 2007, in partnership with Guinean NGO, HUMAID.
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Liberia:
Landmine Action’s programmes in Liberia aim to reduce the harm caused by weapons, ammunition and unexploded ordnance along the following three lines of operation:

• Reducing the threat from Explosive Remnants of War (ERW) through risk education in affected communities.
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• Working to find effective ways of removing weapons from circulation and reducing armed violence through community disarmament, security sector and legal reform, the establishment of licensed armouries, and physical destruction of weapons.
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• Identifying, training and reintegrating into civilian society, ex-combatants who have proved resistant to UN disarmament, demobilization, rehabilitation and reintegration (DDRR) process and continue to present a potential threat to peace and stability in the country.
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Sudan:
Landmine Action was active in Sudan since 2000 and instrumental in the establishment and development of the Sudan Landmine Information and Response Initiative (SLIRI), an impartial Sudanese NGO working to address the impact of landmines and other ERW in both the north and south of the country.

Having developed SLIRI’s capacity to manage the continuation of their mine action programmes independently, Landmine Action brought its mine-action work in Sudan to a close in September 2006.
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Western Sahara:
In August 2006, Landmine Action began the operational phase of a new humanitarian initiative within the Forgotten Conflicts programme to address the problem of ERW contamination in Western Sahara.
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