THE MINES AWARENESS TRUST
Sri Lanka

Project:               MRE Capacity Building – Community Trust Fund (CTF)
Duration:             Aug 2002 – Nov 2003
Funded:               Guernsey Overseas Aid
Partners:             UNICEF

Capacity building of a national NGO in MRE and data gathering.  Training of 20 MRE trainers and their deployment with returning refugees/ IDP’s to six districts of central/ northern Sri Lanka.  Handed project over to the national NGO who are still active in MA, as the largest MRE/ Data gathering NGO in MA in Sri Lanka.

Project:               Mine Detection Dog project, local capacity building
Duration:             Mar 2005 – Mar 2006
Partners:             UNDP

Capacity building a local Sri Lankan foundation, to train and use Mine Detection Dogs (MDD’s) for area reduction in areas of Sri Lanka suspected of containing landmines to IMAS.

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