Review of Finland’s humanitarian mine action programme 2016–2020

This review looked back on a four-year period of Finland's Humanitarian Mine Action, highlighted the strengths and weaknessess of the Finland's new HMA Concept and suggested corrective actions. Finland’s HMA budget for 2016-2020 was 12 million euro and it was channelled through multi-annual Framework Agreements with five partners in five countires as follows:

The HALO Trust (HALO) – Afghanistan, Somalia, Ukraine

Mines Advisory Group (MAG) – Iraq and Syria cross border

United Nations Mine Action Service (UNMAS) – Afghanistan, Iraq

International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC), through Finnish Red Cross (FRC) – Syria, Ukraine

Geneva International Centre for Humanitarian Demining (GICHD) – global