Since 1994, Cambodia Mine/UXO Victim Information System (CMVIS) is intended to contribute to the protection of mine affected communities and provide the support to mine victim through the maintenance of a system for the collection, storage and dissemination of information relating to mine/UXO casualties in Cambodia.
Through the partnership of Handicap International-Belgium and Cambodian Red Cross, the CMVIS maintains a national data gathering network and proven system for the storage and dissemination of the information collected. During 2004, the project was supported by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Finland, Belgian Development Cooperation and UNICEF with total budget for 2005 of $ 118 285.
Project Network
Covering all provinces of Cambodia: utilising 18 full-time data gatherers and 3 half time data gatherers in 17 provinces/municipalities and volunteer data gatherers in the remaining 7 provinces/ municipalities.
GOAL
To maintain and develop a sustainable national mine/UXO victim information system to support a reduction in mine/UXO casualties in Cambodia
OBJECTIVES
To maintain and coordinate a sustainable information-gathering and referral network of mine/UXO casualties in Cambodia.
To analyse & disseminate mine/UXO casualty information nationally and internationally to assist in the planning and monitoring of mine action and victim assistance.
To support the capacity and development of the Cambodian Red Cross in undertaking the activity towards a maximum autonomy.
Outputs
Although not directly aimed at reducing the number of mines and UXO casualties, yet in all of its aspects and phases of operation and development, mine/UXO casualty data gathering has as its central motivation the facilitation of a reduction and, ultimately, cessation of mine and UXO related impact on most affected communities through the collection and dissemination of timely and useful data on mine casualties to mine action agencies. Moreover a key motivation of the project has been to provide support to survivors of mine and UXO accidents, by disseminating information on the location and condition of survivors to victim assistance agencies. Towards these ends, information provided by the project has facilitated:
The discovery and location of new or unknown mined areas, through the village level identification of mine accident sites;
The design of appropriate mine risk education curricula, through the identification of behaviour leading to mine accidents, and the type of device causing the incident;
The ability to better help determine priorities for different mine action programme components in different locations (mine risk education, survey, clearance, explosive ordnance disposal etc.);
The monitoring and evaluation of mine action activities;
The increased awareness of the national and international communities towards the mine/UXO problem faced by the Cambodian people;
A better understanding of the impact of mines in physical, social and economic terms;
A better fundraising amongst mine action and victim assistance agencies throughout Cambodia in the interests of mine victims and mine affected communities;
The reporting of discovered mines and UXO to mine action agencies;
baseline for operational studies aimed at refining existing mine action strategies.
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