Web
Site Up and Running
SAC invites you to visit the site www.sac-na.org
and encourages you to contact us with any comments, suggestions, and/or errata.
Copy editors challenge: An official SAC ball point pen (it is already a collector's
item in some circles) will be awarded to the person identifying the most errors
that escaped the SAC copy editing cooperative. Training
Team Departs for 3 Months in the Field
Saeed Ahmad PhD, Tom Haythornthwaite,
and Mike Kendellen have completed their intensive orientation training by the
SAC senior staff and social science consultant, Aldo Benini PhD, and have now
departed for three months in the field (visit the SAC website to meet the team).
The team is presently in Hargeisa, Somaliland to conduct senior staff training
along with their respective implementing partners. Training sessions in Eritrea
and Ethiopia will follow in succession. Their training schedule is as follows:
Location | Implementing
Partner | Dates | Trainers
| Hargeisa,
Somaliland | DDG |
Jun 22 -
Jul 14 | Aldo,
Mike(P/T),
Saeed, Tom | Asmara,
Eritrea | UNMEE/EMAC | Jul19
-
Aug 13 | Aldo(P/T),
Mike,
Tom(P/T) | Addis
Ababa,
Ethiopia | NPA | Aug16
-
Sept 9 |
Saeed, Tom |
where
DDG is the Danish Demining Group, UNMEE is the UN Mission in Ethiopia and Eritrea,
EMAP is the Eritrean Mine Action Programme, and NPA is the Norweigan People's
Aid. Somalia,
Eritrea, and Ethiopia LIS Surveys in Start-Up Phase
Three
landmine impact surveys (LIS) are underway and currently are in the setup/hiring/training
stages. More focus will be directed to news from these three surveys in the next
newsletter! Bosnia-Herzegovina
LIS Survey
The
SAC Nominating Committee for Selecting an Implementing Partner will make its recommendation
to the Board of Directors. Once the partner is appointed by the SAC Board, the
contracts will be signed and operations will begin. Funding is provided by the
European Commission (EC) and the US Dept. of State (PMHDP) through the International
Trust Fund. Azerbaijan
LIS Survey
SAC
is near final negotiations with the UNDP country office to commence this LIS survey
with funding by the EC. Afghanistan
LIS Survey
SAC
Executive Director, Bob Eaton, is spending the last week of June in Kabul making
final plans for this survey. Angola
LIS Survey
The Advanced Survey Mission (ASM), a precursor to the
LIS, is scheduled to commence in September 2002.
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