Colombia

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The overall goal of Colombia's National Anti-personnel Mine Action Plan is to integrate anti-personnel mine action into the efforts of short, medium, and long term development plans until 100% of the mines are destroyed. The Government's priority in Humanitarian Demining is to define and execute a National Action Plan Strengthen the Anti-personnel Observatory in the Humanitarian Demining component. The political and legal framework of this plan will include information management, integral prevention, victim assistance, humanitarian demining, institutionalization and sustainability of the overall plan, and an international agreement.

The information component will generate knowledge to facilitate decision making in prevention, marking, development of maps, mine removal, victim assistance, and monitoring. The prevention component will promote a security and protection culture developing the strategic line of information and education, through a mass participatory and sustainable process. The victim assistance component will monitor the number of victims, as well as train and monitor the integral attention and socioeconomic inclusion of victims and their families into the community.

The humanitarian demining component will pay special attention to providing timely demining in emergencies situations. It will also verify and recommend National humanitarian Missions, develop humanitarian demining training programs and marking, adapt and guarantee functioning humanitarian demining equipment, and destroy Stockpiled Mines in the time frame determined by the Ottawa Convention. The institution and sustainability component will set up technical and financial strengthening of the Anti-personnel Mine Observatory, consolidate coordinated cooperation, establish decentralization capacity, institute territorial government agreements, and sensitize non-state actors.