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Landmines and Unexploded Ordnances (UXOs) in Affected Communities


NGO Statement to the 2002 CG Meeting

 

Final Draft of the NPRS

1.       Priority clearance of mine affected areas with greatest impact on poverty alleviation.

 

·         Fund clearance of mines,

Included in the text, but not yet in the Action Plan matrix.

·         Prioritize mine clearance according to the maximum impact for poverty alleviation

Included in the text. The Cambodian Mine Action and victim assistance Authority (CMAA) will institute a specific unit dedicated to poverty reduction. However, no budget is provided for these activities in the Action Plan matrix.

 

 

2.       Access to safe land with right of ownership

 

·         Continue to monitor use of demined land.

Included.

·         Implement good land legislation that alleviates poverty in mine-affected Cambodia.

Social concession legislation to distribute land to the poor is included.

 

 

3.       Communities and individuals disabled by mines have a right to development assistance.

 

·         Fund assistance for rehabilitation and socio-economic reintegration of disabled,

Assistance to the disabled is included in the Landmines section of the text.  Rehabilitation and vocational training is included in the Social Protection section of the Action Plan matrix.

·                     Fund development activities in mine affected communities.

Interventions in affected communities included in the text but not in the Action Plan matrix.

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