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United States

Last Updated: 05 October 2012

Support for Mine Action

Support for Mine Action

As part of the United States (US) Conventional Weapons Destruction Program, the US contributed US$131.4 million to 37 countries and territories to mine action in 2011 through more than 40 organizations, UNDP, the NATO Maintenance and Supply Agency (NAMSA), the Organization of American States (OAS), and ITF Enhancing Human Security (formerly the International Trust Fund for Demining and Mine Victims Assistance; hereinafter, ITF).[1] This is the largest amount ever reported for the US as well as the largest number of recipients of US funding in one year.

Afghanistan and Iraq received the largest contributions, and together they constituted almost half (48%) of US funding in 2011. The percentage of US funding allocated to Afghanistan and Iraq thus increased by 4% in 2010 from 44% in 2009. Six recipients (Afghanistan, Angola, Cambodia, Colombia, Iraq and Lao PDR) each received at least $5 million.

The US was the largest donor for victim assistance in 2011. It contributed $12.1 million, which represented 38% of all international victim assistance funding, to 12 countries and the Occupied Palestinian Territory (OPT).[2] The Leahy War Victims Fund,[3] one of the five Special Programs to Address the Needs of Survivors (SPANS) within the Bureau for Democracy (a part of the Agency for International Development, USAID) which focuses on assistance to disabled civilian victims of conflict, allocated a total of more than $5.3 million; recipients were Armenia ($1 million) Colombia ($3.2 million), Ethiopia ($327,000), and the ICRC and Lebanon ($800,000).[4] Other victim assistance support went through the ITF in Slovenia and grants directly to NGOs.

The US also provides ongoing support to the Center for International Stabilization and Recovery (CISR), located at James Madison University in the state of Virginia, which supports training, research and the Journal of Mine Action publication.[5]

Since 2007, the US has contributed more than $530 million to mine action largely through the Office of Weapons Removal and Abatement in the US Department of State’s Bureau of Political-Military Affairs (PM/WRA) and the Leahy War Victims Fund at USAID.  

Contributions by recipient: 2011[6]

Recipient

Sector

Amount

Afghanistan

Clearance, victim assistance

40,475,000

Iraq

Clearance, victim assistance, risk education

22,000,000

Angola

Clearance

8,350,000

Colombia

Clearance, victim assistance, risk education

5,700,000

Cambodia

Clearance, victim assistance, risk education

5,000,000

Lao PDR

Clearance, victim assistance, risk education

5,000,000

Global

Various

4,460,000

Lebanon

Clearance, victim assistance

3,025,000

Vietnam

Clearance, victim assistance, risk education

3,499,000

Bosnia and Herzegovina

Clearance

3,185,000

Libya

Clearance

3,000,000

South Sudan

Clearance

2,800,000

Sri Lanka

Clearance

2,500,000

Mozambique

Clearance

2,175,000

Jordan

Clearance

2,014,568

Somalia

Clearance

1,300,000

Serbia

Clearance

1,275,000

Nagorno-Karabakh

Clearance

1,223,000

Peru

Clearance

1,200,000

Sudan

Clearance

1,100,000

Yemen

Clearance, victim assistance, risk education

1,075,000

Albania

Clearance, victim assistance, risk education

1,073,346

Croatia

Clearance

1,046,848

Somaliland

Clearance

1,025,000

DRC

Clearance

1,015,775

Armenia

Victim assistance

1,000,000

Tajikistan

Clearance

1,000,000

Guinea Bissau

Clearance

1,000,000

Georgia

Clearance

872,207

Ecuador

Clearance

500,000

Kosovo

Clearance

450,000

Solomon Islands

Clearance

400,000

Azerbaijan

Clearance

365,000

Ethiopia

Victim assistance

327,000

Occupied Palestinian Territory

Clearance, victim assistance, risk education

309,284

Abkhazia

Clearance

286,000

Estonia

Risk education

225,000

Myanmar/Burma

Victim assistance, risk education

189,106

Total

 

131,441,134

Contributions by thematic sector in 2011 (US$)

Sector

Amount

Clearance

118,281,692

Victim assistance

12,159,341

Risk education

1,000,101

Total

131,441,134

 

Summary of contributions in 2007–2011 (US$)[7]

Year

Amount

2011

131,441,134

2010

129,579,834

2009

118,703,831

2008

85,000,000

2007

69,800,000

Total

534,524,799

 

 



[1] US Department of State, “To Walk the Earth in Safety 2012,” Washington, DC, July 2012. The two territories were the disputed Nagorno Karabakh in the Caucasus area and the Occupied Palestinian Territory.

[2] Victim assistance is largely supported through national government and non-governmental programs as well as through private sources and various foreign assistance mechanisms. Traditional international mine action assistance constitutes a limited amount of the total funding for victim assistance.

[3] For more information see, The Leahy War Victims Fund.

[4] US Department of State, “To Walk the Earth in Safety 2012,” Washington, DC, July 2012.

[6] US Department of State, “To Walk the Earth in Safety 2012,” Washington, DC, July 2012; email from Michael Lundquist, Executive Director, POLUS Center, 7 September 2012; email from Andrew Moore, Caucasus and Balkans Desk Officer, 30 August 2012; ITF Enhancing Human Security (ITF), Donors: Donations Overview: All, 2011;” email from Scotty Lee, Director, Spirit of Soccer, 7 September 2012; and email from Arben Braha, Director, Albania Mine Action Executive, 17 April 2012.