Live atc kabul11/12/2023 ![]() Mechanical Clearance, Mine Detection Dogs, Explosive Ordnance Disposal, Battle Area Clearance. What we do: Non-Technical Survey, Technical Survey, Manual Clearance, Mine/ERW Risk Education, Provinces in which the organization is active: DAFA has worked in all the regions of Afghanistan (26 provinces) and currently has ongoing demining operations in Kandahar, Nimroz, Takhar and Nangarhar provinces. DAFA as an implementing partner of MAPA is strongly committed to stand-on and support the vision, mission, goals and strategic objectives of the National Mine Action Strategic Plan (NMASP 2016- 2020) Moreover, we have always been ahead in assessing and considering the socio-economic and development perspectives as an integral part of our demining activities. Through our humanitarian demining services we have saved lives and limbs of millions of Afghans, assisted in the repatriation of IDPs and Refugees. We have successfully implemented 81 humanitarian demining projects in 26 provinces of Afghanistan. The Demining Agency for Afghanistan (DAFA) is one of the Humanitarian Mine Clearance NonGovernmental Organizations and the implementing partner of MAPA formed under the auspices of the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Assistance to Afghanistan (UNOCHA) effort in June 1990. Number of Staff: 3,500 and 163 Mine Action Teams.Įmail: Address : Carronfoot Dumfries, Thornhill DG3 5BF United Kingdom Management (for the Army and Police), impact monitoring of our activities and socio-economic development, livelihoods support to our beneficiaries with our partners DACAAR, Afghanaid and MADERA, support to national capacity development in partnership with ANDMA, DMAC and GICHD. What we do: Non-technical and technical survey, manual mine clearance, mechanical mine clearance, risk education, ammunition call out service, explosive ordnance disposal, physical security and stockpile Provinces in which the organisation is active: Badakhshan, Takhar, Kunduz, Balkh, Jawzjan, Faryab, Hirat, Nimroz, Helmand, Kandahar, Ghazni, Khost, Paktya, Logar, Nangarhar, Kabul, Laghman, Kapisa, Kunar, Parwan, Panjsher, Bamyan, Baghlan and Samangan in Central, North, North East, West, South and South East regions. Since 1988 HALO has now expanded to over 8,000 full-time staff in 16 countries and territories, with on-going surveys into new regions. Twenty-four years later, and without interruption despite political regime changes, HALO in Afghanistan has grown to over 3,000 staff – and has cleared over 780,000 mines from minefields and stockpiles, and over ten million items of ordnance. A month later on 15th May 1988 the Soviet Forces started their withdrawal from Afghanistan, and the same week Guy Willoughby set up HALO in Kabul. On the 14 April 1988 The Geneva Accord was signed between Afghanistan and Pakistan, with the Soviet Union and the USA acting as guarantors. ![]() ![]() With more deminers and more equipment, we shall shorten the timeframe that villagers in Afghanistan are impacted by landmines. We have a simple mission statement – ‘getting mines out of the ground, now’. HALO introduced to the world the concept of humanitarian mine clearance in 1988 and has continued clearing mines in Afghanistan despite the fragile political situation bought on by the continuous conflict that has beleaguered the country since the late 1970s. Radwa Rabie, Head of Program DDG- Afghanistan Office locations: Kabul city: Head Office of DRC-DDG and DDG’s main training camp. Number of Staff: 192 DDG Staff (including 62 joint support staff) & 2 ex-pats and 190 national staff In addition to traditional Mine Action pillars, DDG engages in Armed Violence Reduction and Community Safety programming which includes Conflict Management Education and Mediation, Youth Programming and Community Safety Planning. DDG also deploys mechanical assets (Mini MineWolf, Front-End loader, Excavators) to support the clearance and land release of impacted lands. What we do: Removal of explosive hazards in conflict-affected communities through manual clearance of minefields and battlefields, Technical and Non-technical survey, Mine and Explosive Remnants of War Risk Education (RE) to conflict-affected populations including to Afghan returnees, Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs) and host communities, and Explosive Ordinance Disposal (EOD). Provinces in which the organization is active: Kabul, Herat, Farah, Nimroz, Kandahar, Nangarhar, Balkh, Samangan. DDG has been working in Afghanistan since 1999 to provide lifesaving services through Land Release, Demining and Risk Education. ![]() The Danish Demining Group (DDG) is the specialized Humanitarian Mine Action (HMA) and Armed Violence Reduction (AVR) unit within the Danish Refugee Council (DRC). Danish Demining Group – Afghanistan (DDG)
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