Angola [funded by EC, USA, Germany, Canada]
Final report drafted, translated into Portuguese, and being reviewed by CNIDAH in Luanda.

Democratic Republic of Congo [funded by Canada]
With funding from Canada, SAC will conduct an enhanced Preliminary Opinion Collection to the district level in 2008.

Somalia (Phase 3: Sanaag & Sool regions) [funded by EC through UNDP/UNOPS]
Field work completed. Final report drafted and being reviewed by UNDP and the Somaliland and Puntland Mine Action Centers.

Sudan [funded by Canada, UNMAS]
Mines Advisory Group continues field work in Warrap, Lakes and Central Equatoria. The LIS report for Eastern Sudan was distributed in Sudan in September and is currently available on the SAC website. Soon the Sudan database will be available on the LIS Explorer so the data can be searched, filtered and mapped from the SAC web site (see links below under the "LIS Explorer Upgrade" section).

Victim Reduction Model [funded by U.S. Department of State]
The project will build on the current analytical work of the Survey Action Center to build an updated statistical model that will permit national authorities to use LIS data to project probabilities of future mine incidents in communities identified by the LIS. The field work will be conducted in Afghanistan later this year.

Impact Scoring Alternatives [funded by U.S. Department of State]
The project will conclude the work begun in Angola and continued in Manchester, England on what other factors can be included to measure impact. Databases from the LIS in Angola, Afghanistan and Eritrea are being used to test the statistical validity of several scenarios that include variables not covered in the SWG protocol on impact scoring.

Economic Planning Tool [funded by U.S. Department of State]
Bob Keeley, on behalf of SAC, conducted field research in Angola and Afghanistan to develop economic decision support tools for use in mine action. The Excel spreadsheet-based tools will bring to bear economic analysis to assist planners in determining the size of a mine action programs and the mix of different resources to deploy and the most economical distribution of resources throughout the country. The analysis will build on LIS data and utilize economic data sets from other sectors for the economy. The final report will be available in December.

LIS Explorer Upgrade [funded by U.S. Department of State]
The new LIS Explorer upgrade is now available from the SAC website (click here for the homepage). It includes databases from Afghanistan, Azerbaijan, Chad, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Thailand, Somalia, and Yemen. The Sudan database will be added in October with subsequent updates as the data is acquired for this on-going survey. A user guide is available for download (right-click here to download the user guide using 'Save Target As...' ).

Mine Information Matrix [contracted by Marshall Legacy Institute with funding from the U.S. Department of State]
SAC, Marshall Legacy Institute, and James Madison University – Mine Action Information Center continue researching key mine affected countries.