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Mine Action in The Humanitarian Cluster System

The document discusses mine action coordination within the humanitarian cluster system. It describes the Inter-Agency Standing Committee and its 11 clusters, including the Global Protection Cluster. The Mine Action Area of Responsibility sits within the Global Protection Cluster and coordinates mine action activities across humanitarian responses. The document outlines the Mine Action AoR's functions, members, workplan, and role in supporting the Humanitarian Needs Overview and Response Plan processes.

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Mine Action in The Humanitarian Cluster System

The document discusses mine action coordination within the humanitarian cluster system. It describes the Inter-Agency Standing Committee and its 11 clusters, including the Global Protection Cluster. The Mine Action Area of Responsibility sits within the Global Protection Cluster and coordinates mine action activities across humanitarian responses. The document outlines the Mine Action AoR's functions, members, workplan, and role in supporting the Humanitarian Needs Overview and Response Plan processes.

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Mine Action in the

Humanitarian Cluster System

August 2020
Contents
1. Inter-Agency Standing Committee: 18 organizations (UN agencies, NGOs, Red Cross)
2. Eleven Clusters for a Predictable Collaboration and Response
3. Global Protection Cluster
4. Mine Action Area of Responsibility
5. Humanitarian Needs Overviews and Humanitarian Response Plans
6. GPC Website: Mine Action AoR web pages, key documents and resources
Inter-Agency Standing Committee (IASC)
Inter-Agency Standing Committee (IASC)
Humanitarian clusters
Reference Module for Cluster Coordination
• Cluster and Sector Coordination
• Cluster Activation
• Cluster Functions
• The Role of Clusters in Preparedness
• Cluster Management Arrangements
• Sharing Leadership
• Minimum Commitments for Participation in Clusters
• Inter-Cluster Coordination, Sub-National Coordination, Monitoring
Cluster Coordination
Clusters: Six Core Functions
1. Support service delivery
2. Inform the Humanitarian Coordinator/Humanitarian Country
team’s strategic decision-making
3. Plan and implement cluster strategies
4. Monitor and evaluate performance
5. Build national capacity in preparedness and contingency planning
6. Support robust advocacy
Global Protection Cluster (GPC)
• Network of NGOs, IOs, and UN agencies engaged in protection work in
humanitarian crises, including armed conflict
• Mission: ensure (i) well-coordinated, effective and principled protection
preparedness and responses and (ii) protection is at the core of humanitarian
action and considered essential for development and peace
• Work: coordinate the development of policy, standards and operational tools
relating to protection in humanitarian action, including practical guidance on
how to establish and manage protection coordination mechanisms
• Governance: Strategic Advisory Group (SAG)
GPC Organigramme
GPC Strategic Framework 2020-24
• Establish basics of protection coordination in all our operations
• Ensure voices of crisis-affected persons are heard, esp. the
forgotten ones
• Make protection contextually appropriate and complementary
• Champion durable solutions through a nexus of humanitarian,
peace and development action
• Adapt to the shifting operational environment and keep looking
forward
Mine Action Area of Responsibility
• MA AoR: global coordinator for mine action
• Lead Agency: UNMAS (Geneva) and NGO co-lead
• Key functions
– Field Support (16 field coordination mechanisms)
– Bringing together mine action actors
– Representation in policy and dialogue
– Engaging with humanitarian partners (notably Global
Protection Cluster and UNHCR, the Child Protection AoR and
UNICEF, the Housing Land and Property AoR and NRC,
the Health Cluster, IOM DTM)
– Provider of last resort
"Provider of last resort"
• Definition: where necessary, and depending on access,
security and availability of funding, the provider of last
resort must be ready to ensure the provision of services
required to fulfil crucial gaps identified by the cluster and
reflected in the HC-led HCT Humanitarian Response Plan
Members of the MA AoR
• Coordinator: UNMAS Geneva
• Co-Coordinator: Danish Demining Group
• UNHCR, UNICEF, UNIDIR, UNDP, OCHA, WFP, Humanity &
Inclusion, ICRC, IFRC, Norwegian Refugee Council, Action on Armed
Violence, GICHD, AP Mine Ban Convention Implementation Support
Unit, Danish Demining Group/Danish Refugee Council, Dan Church
Aid, Fondation Suisse de déminage, International Campaign to Ban
Landmines, IMMAP, Mines Advisory Group International, Norwegian
Peoples Aid, HALO Trust, Hand in Hand for Syria, University of
Queensland
MA AoR Presence
MA AoR Workplan 2020-22
• Vision: protection from EO for people living in humanitarian
emergencies and victims' needs fully realized
• Objectives:
1. Strengthen headquarters MA AoR partnerships and tools to enhance MA
coordination in humanitarian contexts
2. Support humanitarian in-country mine action coordinators to facilitate
coherent mine action in humanitarian responses
3. Strengthen advocacy, policy and integrated approaches with key donors
and stakeholders (OCHA, GPC) for mine action to be represented in the
Humanitarian Programme Cycle
Humanitarian Needs Overview (HNO) and
Humanitarian Response Plan (HRP)
HNOs HRPs
• Prepared for protracted or sudden • Articulate a shared vision by all clusters
emergencies and provide a shared on how to address the needs of affected
understanding of the crisis, including the people and develops a strategic response
most pressing humanitarian needs and the plan
estimated number of people who need • MA AoR coordinates the mine action
assistance (PiN) response
• MA AoR contributes analysis
GPC website – MA AoR webpage

The MA in 2020 HRPs An introductive text about A contact section and a


map to introduce the MA the MA AoR with field window to the UNMAS
page photos Twitter account 
Key Documents and Resources
• MINE ACTION PILLARS
• MINE ACTION ESSENTIAL GUIDANCE AND TOOLS
• MINE ACTION AOR WORKPLAN 2020-2022
• MINE ACTION AOR TOR 2018
• MINE ACTION AND CHILD PROTECTION
• VIDEOS ON MINE ACTION
• MINE ACTION CALENDAR OF EVENTS

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