Community Liaison and Risk Education in Support of Humanitarian Demining in Colombia

This project aims to carry out community liaison activities that link local leaders (women and men) to the military demining units assigned to clear mines in their communities. These liaison activities work to contribute to ensuring that the needs and priorities of women and men from local populations are met by fostering the population’s active contributions to mine action identification and prioritization processes. The project also aims to provide mine risk education to vulnerable communities including women and girls in order to promote safe behaviors and reduce the incidence of landmine accidents and victims. This includes both communities where demining activities are occurring and communities where there have been recent incidents of landmine accidents but where security situations do not permit demining activities.

The expected outcomes of this project include: (1) improved mine risk awareness and safer behaviors on the part of women girls men and boys living in municipalities affected by landmines and other explosive remnants; and (2) improved effectiveness of humanitarian demining activities carried out by the Colombian military as a result of community liaison.