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United States

Last Updated: 29 July 2011

Support for Mine Action

In 2010 the United States contributed US$129,579,834 in mine action funding.[1] Afghanistan and Iraq received the largest US contributions, and together they constituted 45% of US funding in 2010, a 2% increase from 2009. Seven recipients each received at least $4.5 million.

The US provided support to two institutions engaged in victim assistance activities globally and provided support to 30 states and four areas through 50 organizations, and one trust fund—the International Trust Fund for Demining and Mine Victims Assistance (ITF).[2]

The US was the largest victim assistance donor in 2010 with a contribution of $15,012,376 to nine  countries, the ICRC,[3] the International Society of Prosthetics and Orthotics (ISPO), and the US-based NGO Motivation. The United States Agency for International Development (USAID) Patrick Leahy War Victims Fund provided more than $8 million of the contributions for victim assistance. The State Department’s Office of Weapons Removal and Abatement (WRA) provided an additional $7 million to eight countries[4] for victim assistance.

In addition to the $129.6 million in mine action funding, the US also contributes to mine action through its military-to-military humanitarian mine action training program and the provision of new demining equipment for field testing in Afghanistan, Angola, Cambodia, Chile, Colombia, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Iraq, Sri Lanka, Tajikistan, and Vietnam. In 2010 these activities were valued at more than $12 million.[5]

Contributions by recipient: 2010[6]

Recipient

Sector

Amount
($)

Afghanistan

Clearance; victim assistance

33,820,000

Iraq

Clearance; victim assistance; risk education

24,914,000

Angola

Clearance

9,850,000

Cambodia

Clearance;  victim assistance; risk education

5,542,000

Lao PDR

Clearance; victim assistance; risk education

5,102,000

Sri Lanka

Clearance; victim assistance

4,717,000

Vietnam

Clearance; victim assistance

4,533,000

Colombia

Victim assistance; clearance; risk education

4,026,000

Bosnia and Herzegovina

Clearance

3,800,000

Sudan

Clearance

3,600,000

Lebanon

Clearance; victim assistance

2,750,000

Tajikistan

Clearance

2,478,390

Croatia

Clearance

2,130,000

Jordan

Clearance; victim assistance

2,106,000

Georgia

Clearance

2,000,000

Mozambique

Clearance

2,000,000

Peru

Clearance; victim assistance

2,000,000

Serbia

Clearance

1,480,000

ISPO, Motivation

Victim assistance

1,350,672

Ethiopia

Victim assistance

1,328,000

Somalia

Clearance

1,200,000

Kosovo

Clearance

1,100,000

Yemen

Clearance; victim assistance

1,065,000

Guinea Bissau

Clearance

1,000,000

Nagorno-Karabakh

Clearance

1,000,000

Azerbaijan

Clearance; victim assistance

893,000

Abkhazia

Clearance

850,000

Somaliland

Clearance

800,000

Pakistan

Risk education

516,407

Nepal

Victim assistance

500,000

Senegal

Clearance

500,000

Ecuador

Clearance

183,000

Albania

Victim assistance

167,704

Montenegro

Clearance

150,000

Macedonia

Clearance

127,661

Total

 

129,579,834

The US allocated 87% of its mine action support in 2010 for clearance activities.

Contributions by thematic sector: 2010[7]

Sector

Amount
($)

% of total contribution

Clearance

113,256,051

87.40

Victim assistance

15,012,376

11.59

Risk education

1,311,407

1.01

Total

129,579,834

100

USAID Patrick Leahy War Victims Fund: 2010[8]

Recipient

Amount
($)

Colombia

1,500,000

Ethiopia

1,328,000

Lao PDR

1,180,000

ISPO

1,012,824

Vietnam

1,000,000

Lebanon

750,000

Cambodia

500,000

Nepal

500,000

Motivation

337,848

Sri Lanka

300,000

Total

8,408,672

The US allocates the majority of its mine action funding through the WRA. Additional funding is allocated through the Patrick Leahy War Victims Fund and the Bureau for Democracy, Conflict and Humanitarian Assistance at USAID and the Department of Defense’s Humanitarian Demining Research and Development Program.

The US contribution in 2010 increased by 9% from 2009. From 2006–2010 the US contribution for mine action totaled $497.53 million, with an annual contribution averaging $99,506,733.

Summary of contributions: 2006–2010[9]

Year

Amount
($)

% change from previous year

2010

129,579,834

+9

2009

118,703,831

+40

2008

85,000,000

+22

2007

69,800,000

-26

2006

94,500,000

+15

Total

497,533,665

N/A

N/A = not applicable

 



[1] US Department of State, “To Walk the Earth in Safety 2011,” Washington, DC, July 2011.

[2] The US contributions to Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, and Serbia were made via the ITF.

[3] The US contribution to Ethiopia was to support the ICRC's rehabilitation centers in the country.

[4]  The WRA funded victim assistance projects in Afghanistan, Cambodia, Azerbaijan, Albania, Colombia, Lao PDR, Peru, and Vietnam.

[5] US Department of State, “To Walk the Earth in Safety 2011,” Washington, DC, July 2011.

[6] Ibid; and USAID, “Leahy War Victims Fund,” www.usaid.gov.

[7] Contributions for 2009 are for the 1 September 2008 to 30 October 2009 US fiscal year.

[8] USAID, “Leahy War Victims Fund,” www.usaid.gov.

[9] ICBL-CMC, “Country Profile: United States: Support for Mine Action,” www.the-monitor.org, 18 October 2010.