the 17th international meeting of mine action national
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The 17th International Meeting of Mine Action National Programme Directors and
UN Advisors
Geneva, 31 March to 2 April 2014
I category II category III category
UNSKO-SANSKI CANTON 120,18 53,00 47,38 19,80POSAVSKI CANTON 23,82 6,78 14,92 2,12TUZLANSKI CANTON 90,69 21,31 24,43 44,95ZENIČKO-DOBOJSKI CANTON 133,68 31,98 21,53 80,17BOSANSKO-PODRINJSKI CANTON 51,12 4,71 12,08 34,33SREDNJE-BOSANSKI CANTON 151,78 28,56 45,31 77,91HERCEGOVAČKO-NERETVANSKI CANTON 169,83 19,40 30,83 119,60ZAPADNO-HERCEGOVAČKI CANTON 0,31 0,00 0,00 0,31CANTON SARAJEVO 82,10 21,49 14,81 45,80CANTON 10 95,15 10,51 20,88 63,76FEDERATION OF BH 918,66 197,74 232,17 488,75REPUBLIC OF SRPSKA 278,18 77,54 94,24 106,40DISTRICT BRČKO 21,66 2,99 14,83 3,84BOSNIA AND HERZEGOVINA 1.218,50 278,27 341,24 598,99
ADMINISTRATIVE LEVEL Total suspect
area (km2)
Suspect area / I category priority (km2)
Mine suspected area
2.4% in relation to total area of Bosnia and Herzegovina 120 000 mines/UXO
1996 1997 1998 1999 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012Time
4.200 km2
2.765 km2
2.790 km2
2.293 km2
1.573 km2
1.265 km2
100.0 km2
2.482 km2
56.0 km2
1.290 km2145.0 km2
1.762 km2
25.0 km2
Emeregency demining
8.0 km2
Mine Action History in BH
1996 - 1998 4 200 square km – mine suspected area Established UNMAC;
Conducted urgent demining operations;
Quality assurance and quality control conducted from demining organisations, donors and BH institutions.
Mine Action History in BH
1999 - 2002 2 765 square km – mine suspected area Constitution of RS MAC, FED MAC and Coordination Center – BH MAC
Adopted Demining Law, BH MAC constituted on the level of BH; Adopted Regulations:
Mine Action History in BH
Law on Demining in Bosnia and Herzegovina;
Bosnia and Herzegovina Mine Action Strategy;
Standard for Mine Clearance and EOD Operations in BiH;
Standard for Mine Risk Education in BiH;
SOP for Humanitarian Demining;
SOP for Mine Risk Education;
Rules for accreditation.
Mine Action History in BH
LIS results: 1366 impacted communities
1,375,807 impacted people - ¼ of total population
• 154 communities – highly impacted areas, 100,000 people
• 696 communities – medium impacted areas 594,000 people
• 516 communities – low impacted areas 681,477 people
LIS: Landmine Impact Survey in BiH is independent study implemented in 2002-2003 by Survey Action Center, James Madison and Cranfield University, Handicap international and BHMAC with support of USA and Canada through ITF.
2003 - 2008 1 848 square km – mine suspected area
Level of Quality Assurance Sampling demining area
No. Class
Criteria
Threat level (MA type)
1.
PROM mines
There are indications of PROM mines on the location. Indications mean that are for the location available data on mine incidents or accidents, minefield records or reliable witnesses.
H - High (Clearance)
2.
Almost cetrian
presence of minefield
Area was between confrontation lines; area is disused, there are minefields records and/or participant or reliable witness of mine placement and visible
traces of possible mine risk.
H - High (Clearance)
3. Probable
presence of minefield
Area was between confrontation lines; area is disused, there are no minefields records there are indication and particular certain traces that indicate possible
mine risk.
M - Medium (Technical survey)
4.
Not probable presence of minefield
Area was between confrontation lines; area is disused or partly used, there are no minefields records or traces that indicate possible mine risk.
L - Low (General survey)
Scale for description of benefit level consists of three priority category for demining. For first priority category are separately classified and described criteria for humanitarian and development character. Priority of humanitarian character are by rule in impacted communities, while is by priorities of development character necessary to enclose economic justification by request.
Prioritetization
CRITERIA FOR FIRST PRIORITY OF HUMANITARIAN NATURE
PRIORITY MARK PRIORITY CLASSIFICATION DESCRIPTION
H.1.1. HOUSING
Demining for the reason of reconstruction of housing and accompanying facilities, access roads and minimum area of surrounding land within the borders of logical geographic unit
H.1.2. INFRASTRUCTURE
Demining for the reason of reconstruction of infrastructural facilities as road alignments, electricity network, water supply lines, gas and telephone installations with accompanying facilities and prescribed safety zone, as well as rehabilitation of graveyards and other sacral facilities.
H.1.3. PUBLIC INSTITUTION
Demining for reason of rehabilitation, reconstruction and safe use of all public and accompanying facilities, access roads and minimum area of surrounding land within the borders of logical geographic unit
H.1.4. ECONOMIC RESOURCES Demining of agricultural land, parts of forests with firewood and other natural resources necessary for livelihood of local population in impacted communities
H.1.5. PREVENTIVE DEMINING Demining with the purpose to place permanent mine-warning signs, as well as clearance (mine-lifting) of visible mines and UXOs regardless to purpose of land use
CRITERIA FOR FIRST PRIORITY CATEGORY
R.1.1. HOUSING Demining for the reconstruction of housing and accompanying facilities, access roads and minimum area of surrounding land within the borders of logical geographic unit
R.1.2. PUBLIC FACILITIES Demining for the construction of public facilities with accompanying contents, access roads and minimum safety area within the borders of logical geographic unit
R.1.3. ECONOMY Demining for the construction of economic capacities significant for development of economy and employment
R.1.4. COMMUNICATION Demining for construction of roads, railway, water and air communications as well as facilities and telecommunication lines within prescribed minimum safety zone
R.1.5. ENERGY Demining for the construction of electricity network, water supply line, heat line, gas line, energy facilities with accompanying contents and prescribed minimum safety zone.
R.1.6. WATER SUPPLY Demining for the reconstruction, construction and maintenance of water supply facilities, regulation of rivers and lakes, dams and channels and water protection
R.1.7. AGRICULTURE Demining of high productive arable land, orchards and pastures with accompanying facilities in order to provide economy development and employment.
R.1.8. ENVIRONMENT
Demining for the protection of environment, especially in order to remove garbage depots and conduct the measures in impacted and protected areas (national parks, nature parks, nature monuments and protected landscapes).
R.1.9. TOURISM Demining of the areas that used to be or can be tourist destinations.
R.1.10. FORESTRY Demining for the exploitation, maintenance and protection of forests
CRITERIA FOR THE THIRD PRIORITY CATEGORY: Suspected area without known mine threat, with lowest possible mine risk and impact, but with eventually
possible remanence of conflict considering that are on former confrontation lines. Those are rural area without traditional or other recognizable motives to local population and occasional users to access or to move into
area. They do not contain natural resources of strategic importance.
CRITERIA FOR THE SECOND PRIORITY CATEGORY: The second priority category contains locations that are in occasional use or in contact zone with location of first priority category. These areas represent minimum safety zone of already treated first category locations.
They are defined within borders of logical geographic unit and not traditionally important, in sense of populations’ motivation to move toward peripheral area, treated as the third demining priority category.
Mine Action municipality planing For now all phases of municipality planning include 63 mine/UXO contaminated municipalities which is 50% out of total contaminated municipalities in BH. 1st Strategy revision conducted (2009-2019.) New General Assessment Identified 1.417 communities endangered by mines/UXO. Locations contaminated by mines/UXO directly affect the safety of approximately 540.000 citizens. Out of the total number of mine/UXO contaminated communities, 136 or 10% were categorised as highly contaminated (approximately 152.000 directly endangered citizens), 268 or 19% as medium contaminated (approximately 180.000 directly endangered citizens) and 1.013 or 71% as low contaminated (approximately 208.000 directly endangered citizens).
Mine Action History in BH 2009 - 2012 1 265 square km – mine suspected area
Delayed demining schedule for BH until 2019. as per Article 5, Ottawa Treaty Adopted Strategy plan 2009-2019
NT methods 2.824,3 km2 (systematic and
GS)95%
Tech. methods 157,21 km2
TS and clearance)5%
Initial suspect area: 4.200 km2
Treated suspect area: 1.218,5 km2
Totally reduced: 2.981,5 km2
Found and destroyed:
AP mines: 57.204AT mines: 8.064UXO: 51.658
Results 1996-2013
SUMNJIVA OPASNA POVRŠINA(SISTEMATSKO IZVIĐANJE)
SUSPECTED HAZARD AREA (SHA)
NETEHNIČKO IZVIĐANJE(GENERALNO IZVIĐANJE)NON -TECHNICAL SURVEY
CILJANA ISTRAGATARGETED INVESTIGATION
OTKAZANA POVRŠINA(KORIGOVANO SISTEMATSKO
IZVIĐANJE - PBUR)CANCELLED LAND
ČIŠĆENJE MINAMINE CLEARANCE
OČIŠĆENA POVRŠINACLEARED LAND
SISTEMATSKA ISTRAGASYSTEMATIC INVESTIGATION
REDUKOVANA POVRŠINA (PBUR)
REDUCED LAND
“LAND RELEASE‘‘, BHMAC 2014
LEGEND NON-TECHNICAL METHOD TECHNICAL METHOD INFORMATION FLOW
Adopted of terminologically accorded Standard for Mine/UXO removal in BH with IMAS: Nontechnical survey (Chapter 5.10.), Technical survey (Chapter 5.20.); Land release (Chapter 5.30.).
Integration of orthophoto systems in existing BH GIS
The entire suspected hazard areas in BiH was the subject of airborne imaging funded by EU and performed by Geofoto Zagreb (IPA 2010). Scale 1:1,000 date October 2013 Airborne images were submitted to BHMAC. At the beginning of 2014 it will be organized a training for BHMAC specialized professionals who will integrate orthophoto system into existing one.
In the first phase of integration, it will be covered integration of orthophoto images for suspected hazard areas treated in the first phase of the project Land Release.
Mine victims
1996 1997 1998 1999 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014Fatalities 97 103 51 43 42 37 26 28 24 32 28 17 33 9 6 9 9 3 3Injured 229 113 62 39 38 28 35 29 31 22 22 31 29 19 8 13 3 10 8Unknown 181 99 15 12 12 8 12 4 4 3 1 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0Total 507 315 128 94 92 73 73 61 59 57 51 48 62 29 14 22 12 13 11
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Total victims after war: 1 725 victims Total killed: 596
