DEPARTMENT OF PLANNING & OPERATIONS CAMBODIAN MINE ACTION CENTRE CMAC ANNUAL DEMINING ACHIEVEMENT REPORT JANUARY – DECEMBER 2017 1. General Situation Landmine and Explosive Remnants of War (ERW) problems in Cambodia occur across the country and present a constant risk and area real barrier to development in both town and the country, especially for agricultural activities in rural areas. Most of the infrastructure and resources that were broken during the war need to be restored and strengthened to assist in developing all parts of the agriculture and natural resource sectors. Saving Lives and Supporting Development for Cambodia Page 1 of 32 DEPARTMENT OF PLANNING & OPERATIONS CMAC, as the national humanitarian demining operator, is working hard on this matter in order to save lives and support development of the Cambodian people. Today, CMAC continues to undertake a number of bilateral and counterpart projects in order to support its demining management plan, as set out in the annual integrate work plan 2017, as well as in CMAC’s 5-year strategic work plan from 2015-2019. However, from January to December 2017, 237 working days were assigned and limited for all CMAC Demining Unit (DU), Technical Institute of Mine Action (TIMA), and Development Demining Unit (DDU) and CMAC Central Headquarter to respond the demining tasks to all communities’ needs, local authorities, stakeholders, Royal Cambodian government and NGOs for safe environments, development and risk reduction from the threats of landmines/ERW in Cambodia. Within this period, 148-day was for public holiday, weekend and compulsory annual leave days. 2. Deployment Tools (Asset) From January to December 2017, CMAC demining resources were assigned to the various CMAC’s Demining Unit, Head Quarter, Development Demining Unit (DDU) and CMAC Technical Institute of Mine Action (TIMA). However, all CMAC demining teams are still working to support many landmine/ERW high priority clearance tasks selected through the National Planning Mechanism, often refers to as MAPU process, as participatory and bottom up approach methods to mine action planning; and urgent humanitarian and development supported tasks requested by local authorities and mine/ERW affected communities. The following table 1 shows us the demining tools (asset) by each Demining Unit for December 2017. Saving Lives and Supporting Development for Cambodia Page 2 of 32 DEPARTMENT OF PLANNING & OPERATIONS Table 1: (Deployment in December 2017) Actual Demining Assets (Tools) Demining Unit MP MP BAC-L EOD NTS TSC-(5 staff) TSC-( 7 staff) SLD (4 dogs) SLD (2 dogs) LLD EDD DM BC (2 Staff) Staff) BC ( 9 BAC-S ERWI BAC-MTT MDR CBMRR IED-Dog Diving DU#1(BMC) 3 - - - - 1 - 2 - - 2 - 4 1 1 - - 5 - - DU#2(BTB, PLN, PST) 7 - - - 1 14 2 4 1 - 8 4 3 3 2 - - 16 - - DU#4 (SRP, Kg. Thom, - - - 1 - - 1 2 - - - - - 1 - 1 1 1 - - PVH, OMC) DU#5 (Eastern provinces) - 4 - - - - - - - 4 - 1 - 13 - 5 - - - - DU#6 (SRP & OMC) - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Development Demining - - 3 - - - 1 5 - - - - - 8 - - - - - - Unit (DDU) CMAC HQ (Phnom Penh) - - 2 - - - - - - - - - - 1 - 1 - - - - CMAC Technical Institute - - - - - 1 - - - - - - - - - 3 - - 1 1 of Mine Action (TIMA) Community Development. - - - - - - - - - - - - - 4 - - - - - - Center (CDC) Total teams deployed 13 5 2 1 3 22 2 6 1 4 10 17 7 18 7 6 1 22 1 1 Note: Movements: . 4BC (BC#10 15 20 and BC#23), TSC#30 and MPL#142 of DDU-DNR5-3 starts operational clearance mine/UXO along National Road No.5 from 01 January to 31 December 2017. BAV#03 and BAC-S#01 at former HQ-CMA-17 were moved to work with DDU under NR5-3 project from 01 February 2017. 2TSC (TSC#07&19) at former DDU-EDC2 were moved to work with DDU under NR5-3 project from 01 February 2017. ERWi#22 at former DDU in NR5-3 project was moved to work with APOPO project in DU4 from 01 February 2017. TSC#16 of former DU2-CFR12 converted into BAC#16 of DU1-CFR13 from 01 Mar 2017 to 28 Feb 2018. BAC#19 is recreated and deployed at DU2-CFR14 from 01 March 2017 to 28 February 2018. 5BC(BC#03,13,15,20,23), 3TSC(TSC#07,12,19) and BAC#01 of former DDU-NR5-3 moved to work along National Road No.4 of DDU-ALEX-02 from 15 March until 30 July 2017. 4MPL(MPL#101,102, 103 and MPL#104) are recreated and deployed the operational mine/UXO clearance along National Road No.4 under DDU-AlEX-02 from 15 March until 31 July 2017. TSC#21 of DDU-ECD2 starts working on 27 March 2017. 2 NTS (NTS#01 and 04) of DU1-CFR have been deployed an operation in Banteay Meanchey province from 01 April to 31 October 2017. Saving Lives and Supporting Development for Cambodia Page 3 of 32 DEPARTMENT OF PLANNING & OPERATIONS . 3 NTS (NTS#02, 03 and 14) of DU2-CFR have been deployed an operation in Battambang and Pailin provinces from 01 April to 31 October 2017. 2 TSC (TSC#08 and 30) of DDU-NR5-3 have been moved to work at DDU-ALEX2 from 01 May to 31 July 2017. TSC#18 of DDU-NR5-3 have been moved to work at DU4-RGC12 22 May 2017 until new notice. 2TSC(TSC#07&08) of DDU-NR5-3 were transferred to work for EDC-2 of DDU from 24 Jun to 31 Oct 2017. BC#10 of former DDU_NR5-3 West moved to work at DU1_CFR13 (Top Up) 0n 01 December 2017. NTS#03 of former TIMA_Golden West moved to work at CMAC HQ_CMA17 0n 01 December 2017 Anyway, during the report in 2017 signaled some changes in the CMAC’s deployment. First, Mobile Platoons were recreated which each Mobile Platoons consisted of 17 deminers to deployed the operations under DDU-Alex02 project for four and half months from 15 March 2017 until now. 5 non-Technical Survey/Basline Survey teams (NTS/BLS-5) were also recreated to provide land reclamation non-technical survey and Basline survey services under DU1 (2teams) and DU2 (3teams) CFR projects for 6 months from 01 April to 30 September 2017 and 2 teams continued their tasks for 2 months from October to November 2017and another team worked at TIMA_Golden to survey underwater ERW West for 2- month from October-November, this team moved to work at CMAC HQ_CMA17 on 01 December 2017. Other hands, 3 SLD teams which were recreated and deployed operation at DU1 (1team) and DU2 (2teams) on 01 August 2017. The below table 2 is showing the real mine action teams for year 2017: Saving Lives and Supporting Development for Cambodia Page 4 of 32 DEPARTMENT OF PLANNING & OPERATIONS Deployment from January to December 2017 Demining Tools Jul Jan Jun Oct Apr Feb Sep Dec Aug Nov Mar May Mobile Demining Platoon (MP27) 9 9 9 9 9 9 9 9 9 9 10 10 Mobile Demining Platoon (MP17) ‐ ‐ 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 3 3 Battle Area Clearance‐Large Team (BAT‐16) 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 5 5 5 5 5 Technical Survey and Clearance Team (TSC7) 25 25 23 23 23 23 23 23 23 23 22 22 Technical Survey and Clearance Team (TSC7) 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 3 3 Non‐Technical Survey/Based line Survey team ‐ ‐ ‐ 5 5 5 5 5 5 3 3 3 Short Leash Detection Dog (SLD‐4dogs) 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 Short Leash Detection Dog (SLD‐2dogs) 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 6 6 6 6 6 Long Leash Detection Dog (LLD) 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 Explosive Detection Dog (EDD) 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 Improvised Explosive Detection Dog (IED_DOG) 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 Brush Cutter Team (BC9) 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 4 6 7 Brush Cutter Team (BC‐2) 20 20 20 20 20 20 20 20 20 19 17 16 Demining Machine ( DM‐2) 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 Demining Machine ( DM12) 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 Demining Machine ( DM21) 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 Battle Area Clearance By Village (BAV) 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 ‐ ‐ ‐ ‐ ‐ Battle Area Clearance‐Small Team (BAC‐5) 16 16 18 18 18 18 18 18 18 18 18 18 Battle Area Clearance‐Multi Technical Team (ERWI‐ 6 6 6 6 6 6 6 6 6 6 6 6 5) Explosive Remnants of War Intervention (ERWI) 7 7 7 7 7 7 7 7 7 7 7 7 Explosive Ordnance Disposal (EOD3) 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 Community Based Mine Risk Reduction (CBMRR) 21 21 21 21 21 21 21 21 21 21 21 21 CMAC Salvage Dive Unit 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 Explosive Harvesting Program 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 Note: 6 ERWI(ERWI#08,10,14,16,23 and 28) of DU5-USA20 renamed as Battle Area Clearance –Small Team (BAC-S) on 1 November 2016. 4 BAT(BAT#01,02,03 and 04) of DU5-USA20 renamed as Battle Area Clearance –Large Team (BAC-L) on 1 November 2016. 2 SLD teams that consisting of 4 dogs are rented for MAG in whole year. All staff of BAV resigned on 31 July 2017.