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Directorate of Mine Action Coordination (DMAC) State Ministry for Disaster Management and Humanitarian Affairs Improvised Explosive Devices 2018 Session of the Group of Experts CCW Amended Protocol II Mohammad Shafiq Yosufi Director, DMAC

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Directorate of Mine Action Coordination (DMAC) State Ministry for Disaster Management and Humanitarian Affairs

Improvised Explosive Devices

2018 Session of the Group of Experts CCW Amended Protocol II

Mohammad Shafiq Yosufi Director, DMAC

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Objective of the presentation:

To provide an overview on the scale and challenges of Improvised Explosive Devices in Afghanistan

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Recent/New Contamination

In Total 270 hazards with a total size of 421 sq km area identified

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CIVCAS by types non-suicide IEDs (Jan – Dec 2017)

▪ 1,856 CIVCAS (624 deaths & 1,232 injuries)

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CIVCAS by non-suicide IEDs (2009-2017)

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Source: UNAMA Mid Year Repot 2017

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Civilian Casualties (Mine, ERW Including Abandoned Improvised Mine “AIM” )

Jan to Dec 2017

Source: IMSMA

Average 171 casualties /month

48% 49% 4%

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Impact of PPIEDs on civilians May 2017

Detonation of a Victim Activated Improvised on a vehicle carrying civilians to a wedding party in May 2017 killed all 11 members of one family in Logar Province

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Scope of Known AIM Contamination

Total: 187 ( 235.8 sqkm)

IMSMA Recorded Hazards: 34 (7.8 sqkm)
Initially Assessed IED sites : 152 ( 228 sqkm)

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Abandoned AIM Survey and Clearance in Kajaki District

f Helmand Province

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Abandoned AIM Survey and Clearance in Nowzad District

f Helmand

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Strategy for engaging HMA in AIM Clearance

Field Operations National Capacity Development Resource Mobilization & Equipments Policy/Strategy & Standards DMAC/UNMAS/IPs TWG National & International Legal Framework

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Neutrality of HMA

▪ Clear Policy/strategy separate from C-IED Strategy ▪ Clear definitions for AIEDs ▪ Criteria to separate the APPIEDs from

ther IEDs

▪ Work based on humanitarian necessity ▪ Maintain close liaison with communities ▪ Destruction rather than disarmament

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IED capacity with NSF:

Two EOD/IED Training Centers in Kabul and Mazar
Ministry of Interior: # of available IED/EOD Teams: 150
Ministry of Defense: # of available C-IED Teams:

189 .

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