The UN Inter-Agency Mine Action Strategy for 2006-2010 outlines the strategic objectives, activities and indicators for UN mine action. It is informed by "Mine Action and Effective Coordination: the United Nations Inter-Agency Policy" of June 6, 2005 (referred to in this document as "the Policy"). It promotes achievement of the Millennium Development Goals and full adherence to and compliance with relevant treaties and other international instruments, in particular the anti-personnel mine-ban treaty, the convention on conventional weapons and relevant human rights instruments.
The strategy has been adopted by the 14 members of the Inter-Agency Coordination Group on Mine Action comprised of UN departments, agencies, funds and programmes charged by the General Assembly with assisting and supporting member states to implement mine action. It is designed to ensure a rational and cost-effective prioritisation of UN mine action activities over the next five years.
The UN will continue to work in partnership with countries affected by landmines and explosive remnants of war (ERW), affected communities, nongovernmental organisations (NGOs), donors and other entities, including non-state actors. The UN will address the threat posed by landmines/ERW and build national capacities to manage the current and residual landmine/ERW problem and to support efforts by national authorities to assist survivors. The UN reaffirms its commitment to the activities described in the Policy including all pillars of mine action: mine surveying, marking and clearance, mine risk education, victim assistance, stockpile destruction and advocacy. The UN will also continue to support the implementation of UN peacekeeping operation mandates in the field. All UN mine action activities will be examined with consideration of their contribution to the four strategic objectives set out below.
The UN believes that these strategic objectives can be fully achieved in many countries and significantly advanced in others within the next five years. The UN maintains that the problem of landmines/ERW can be solved on a grand scale through continued improvements in the cost-efficiency and effectiveness of operations, through better distribution of resources to those communities most affected and to those mine action programmes that demonstrate conclusive results. The success of this strategy assumes both the current number of landmine/ERW affected countries and constant funding levels.
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