• Executive Summary
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• Final Report
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• Data Map (Phase 3)
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• Data Map (Phase 1&3)
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• Data Map (Phase 2&3)
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• Data Map (Phase 1&2&3)
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Surveys - Completed May 2005 - Somalia (Phase 2)
Bari, Nugaal and Mudug Regions

Overview

The second phase of the Landmine Impact Survey (LIS) in Somalia got underway on 22 August 2004 in Puntland. The three regions of Bari, Nugaal and Mudug make up the Puntland state in northeast Somalia. The LIS is being implemented by the Puntland Mine Action Center (PMAC) with management being provided by a SAC team operating out of Garowe. The survey is expected to take ten months to complete.

Funding

The second phase of this survey is funded by the European Community.

Operational Status

Preliminary Opinion Collection (POC) was conducted in February and March 2004 to identify the areas in Puntland with suspected landmine/UXO contamination. This procedure establishes the initial list of communities (135, in this case) to be surveyed with the list being adjusted as new information is obtained.

The SAC team of Almedina Komic (Team Leader), Neven Redzic (GIS/Database Officer), and Mohamed A. Hussein (Ops/Admin Officer) visited Takoma Park for orientation sessions from 16-18 August 2004. From there the team flew to Gerowe to commence the survey. Click here to view a page with links to meet the team. Both Almedina and Neven are returning LIS veterans after working in Sarajevo on the LIS in Bosnia and Herzegovina.

On 9 September, SAC signed a memorandum of understanding with the Puntland Mine Action Center to conduct the LIS in the Puntland state of Somalia. Click here to view two photographs from the signing.

The SAC team is presently setting up their office in preparation for interviewer recruitment and training.

More Information

To learn more about the Landmine Impact Survey in Somalia, feel free to contact us.
 

Quick Phase-2 Overview

6930 Carroll Avenue, Suite 240
Takoma Park, MD 20912
United States of America
Phone:	+1.301.891.9192
Fax:	+1.301.891.9193
E-mail:	sac@sac-na.org

Surveys - Completed March 2003 - Somalia (Phase 1)
Awdal, Galbeed, Sahil and Togdheer Regions

Background

The Survey Action Center (SAC) conducted an Advanced Survey Mission (ASM) in March of 2001 and reconfirmed the findings of the UN assessment mission. SAC developed a country plan to survey Somalia. However, due to the uncertain security conditions in the South, East, and West of Somalia, the country plan was modified to collect data in northwestern Somalia ("Somaliland") as a first phase.

Funding

The first phase of this survey was funded by the European Community, the government of Sweden through the Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency (SIDA), the government of Finland, and the government of Canada through the Canadian International Development Agency (CIDA). Funding from from the governments of Sweden and Canada was provided directly to the Survey Action Center.

Implementing Organization

For Phase 1, SAC sub-contracted the Danish Demining Group (DDG), a member of the Survey Working Group, to implement Phase 1 of the Landmine Impact Survey in Somalia. (meet the DDG staff)

Quality Assurance

The United Nations Mine Action Services (UNMAS-UNOPS) provided the quality assurance monitoring on behalf of the United Nations Certification Committee.

The Field Survey Team

Operational Status

Although the survey was initiated in March 2002, it really began in earnest in May. A memorandum of understanding with MRR&R was signed on 12 May. The SAC training team was in Somaliland from 20 June to 15 July 2002 (view photos from the training sessions) and trained the senior national staff and supervised the first pretest.

The Expert Opinion Collection process, the second pretest, and the recruitment of the interviewers were completed in early September. Pilot testing of the survey instruments finished at the end of September.

Data collection in the field began 1 October and continued until the end of January 2003. A total of 357 communities were found impacted by the presence of landmine/UXO in these four regions containing 772 separate suspected hazard areas. The survey determined that 13% of these communities were considered to be in the high impact category, 29% were medium impact, and 58% were low impact. The contamination affects the safety and livelihoods of an estimated 1.34 million people and has led to the death of 276 people within a two year period prior to the survey.

Survey wrapup and report writing continued through February and the official end of the survey occurred in March 2003.

Click here to view some faces and scenes photographed in Somaliland in June/July 2002.

More Information

To learn more about the Landmine Impact Survey in Somalia, feel free to contact us.
 

Quick Phase-1 Overview

6930 Carroll Avenue, Suite 240
Takoma Park, MD 20912
United States of America
Phone:	+1.301.891.9192
Fax:	+1.301.891.9193
E-mail:	sac@sac-na.org