mine risk education - mre
NCDA has implemented Mine Risk Education (MRE) with UNICEF by integrating community-based awareness sessions, child-focused learning, and standardized risk messages into its broader humanitarian and protection programming in mine-affected areas. Drawing on UNICEF’s global MRE guidance, NCDA facilitators are trained to deliver age-appropriate sessions in schools, community centers, and displacement sites, using visual materials, stories, and interactive discussions to help children and caregivers recognize mines and explosive remnants and adopt safer behaviors. In line with UNICEF’s partnership model, NCDA aligns its activities with national mine action strategies, contributes to data collection on risk behaviors and incidents, and participates in monitoring and evaluation processes to adjust messages and target the most exposed communities. Through this collaboration, NCDA helps extend UNICEF’s protective reach at the local level, ensuring that hard-to-reach and vulnerable groups receive consistent, life-saving information on how to avoid explosive hazards.
awareness creation
Community awareness sessions on Mine Risk Education under NCDA have typically been delivered as community-based, participatory forums where trained facilitators engage residents in identifying local explosive threats, mapping hazardous areas, and discussing everyday behaviors that increase or reduce risk, in line with international EORE and community liaison standards. Sessions usually combine visual aids, demonstrations, and guided discussions to explain how to recognize mines and other explosive ordnance, what to do and not do when they are found, and how to report them, while ensuring women, men, youth, and marginalized groups all contribute to defining priorities and safety strategies so that messages are locally appropriate and more likely to lead to sustained behavior change.
victim support
Victims are supported through a survivor‑centered victim assistance system that spans emergency care, long‑term rehabilitation, and social and economic inclusion. Immediately after an incident, this includes first aid, evacuation, surgery, and continuing medical care, followed by physical rehabilitation, provision of prosthetics and other assistive devices, and tailored psychosocial support to help survivors and their families cope with trauma and stigma. States and mine‑action partners work to ensure access to education, vocational training, and livelihood opportunities, as well as to implement laws and policies that guarantee the rights of survivors and integrate victim assistance in line with the Anti‑Personnel Mine Ban Convention’s victim assistance pillars.
uxo marking
Unexploded ordnance is managed through a controlled sequence in which specialized explosive ordnance disposal teams first identify and clearly mark suspected items with visible signs, tape, flags, or fencing and establish safety perimeters to keep civilians away.
Once secured, technicians assess each UXO, then either remove it to a designated demolition site or destroy it in place using controlled detonations or other approved techniques designed to neutralize the explosive content while minimizing risk to people and the environment.
After demolition, the area is re‑surveyed and documented to confirm that all hazardous items have been cleared so land can be officially released for safe civilian use.