Community Preparation for Basic Life Support for Mine Incidents (P10-CB01)
Pillar: Mine risk education
Appealing Agency: Presidential Programme for Integrated Mine Action (PPAICMA)
Summary Objectives: The project seeks to improve capacities to respond to mine incidents in communities located in high-risk zones. It will provide training on first responses for basic life support and reduction of individual vulnerability. It falls under the third long-term objective of the national mine action policy.
Corporate Social Responsibility Project: Generation of Work Opportunities for Victims (P10-CB02)
Pillar: Victim assistance
Appealing Agency: Presidential Programme for Integrated Mine Action (PPAICMA)
Summary Objectives: This pilot project aims to provide skills training and help integrate mine victims into the workplace, in partnership with the Banco de la República. It includes awareness-raising activities with existing employees to highlight the difficulties and discrimination often faced by landmine victims in searching for job opportunities. These goals fall under the fourth long-term objective of the national mine action strategy.
Decentralization of the Management of Information on Integrated Mine Action in Colombia (P10-CB03)
Pillar: Multiple
Appealing Agency: Presidential Programme for Integrated Mine Action (PPAICMA)
Summary Objectives: The project aims to produce reliable, pertinent, relevant, timely and quality information to facilitate mine action policy coordination and interventions. It will strengthen and promote coordination, articulation and monitoring of information management at the national, sectoral and regional levels. The project will establish, standardize and foster the use of protocols, procedures and tools for developing a mine action "road map" for information management.
Education in Anti-personnel Mine and Unexploded Ordnance Risks, and Victim Assistance (P10-CB04)
Pillar: Multiple
Appealing Agency: Pastoral Social/Caritas Colombia
Summary Objectives: The project will disseminate knowledge on the impacts of mines and on affected civilian populations in the departments of Cauca, Caquetá, Arauca, Meta, Córdoba, Putumayo and Nariño. It will be part of the Catholic Church contribution to the culture of peace.
Fund to Support Transportation and Board for Victims During Rehabilitation (P10-CB05)
Pillar: Victim assistance
Appealing Agency: Presidential Programme for Integrated Mine Action (PPAICMA)
Summary Objectives: The project will cover the costs of transportation, lodging and attention for civilian victims of mine and UXO accidents to attend rehabilitation centres, along with the costs for one accompanying person. It will support the coverage of costs unforeseen in Law 418 of 1997 and Decree 3990 of 2007. The project will contribute to victims realizing their right to comprehensive rehabilitation, including through access to medical facilities that provide physical and psychosocial attention.
Identification of Good Practices and Lessons Learned in Mine Action Projects (P10-CB06)
Pillar: Multiple
Appealing Agency: Presidential Programme for Integrated Mine Action (PPAICMA)
Summary Objectives: The project will document and systematize PPAICMA projects and interventions, identify strategic elements, and provide inputs for the formulation and execution of departmental and municipal-level public policies.
Immediate Response Team to Assist Victims of Mines and Unexploded Ordnance (P10-CB07)
Pillar: Victim assistance
Appealing Agency: Presidential Programme for Integrated Mine Action (PPAICMA)
Summary Objectives: The project aims to orient victims at the field level immediately following accidents. It will provide psychological attention and establish early warnings of psychosocial risks. Information will be gathered on victims, their family and community environments, and the circumstances of the accident. Victims and their families will learn about their rights and the mechanisms to access them. The project will promote local networks to facilitate monitoring and follow up on each victim.
Institutional Strengthening of Mine Action in 50 Municipalities (P10-CB08)
Pillar: Multiple
Appealing Agency: Presidential Programme for Integrated Mine Action (PPAICMA)
Summary Objectives: The project aims to increase the capacities of municipal governments to execute local public policy through mine action programmes that address the needs of affected communities. It will support an effective transfer of capacities between governments elected from 2008 to 2011, and new governments expected in 2012 and 2015. The project contributes to the first long-term objective of the national mine action strategy.
Institutional Strengthening to Guarantee Psychosocial Attention (P10-CB09)
Pillar: Victim assistance
Appealing Agency: Presidential Programme for Integrated Mine Action (PPAICMA)
Summary Objectives: The project aims to increase basic psychosocial coverage by local health service providers. It will support the institutionalization and sustainability of psychosocial services in local and departmental health plans. The project contributes to the fourth long-term objective of the national mine action strategy.
Integration of Landmine Accidents into the Public Health Surveillance System (P10-CB10)
Pillar: Victim assistance
Appealing Agency: UN Development Programme (UNDP)
Summary Objectives: The project will further develop and roll out methods of investigation for landmine accidents, an interface to integrate landmine accidents within the national health surveillance system, and guidance protocols for health personnel to cross-check data with the Information Management System for Mine Action (IMSMA) database. It will help improve the overall management of and medical follow up for landmine victims, and simplify the process of applying for compensation.