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| The UNMEE MACC employs on average five or six in-kind advisors per year. Since its inception in 2000, with the support of the UN Officer for Project Services, the UNMEE MACC has negotiated and concluded several agreements with donors for the provision of in-kind personnel to fill key support positions in the MACC. In 2001, for example, the Netherlands provided three Dutch instructors to train deminers to work in the TSZ. The three Dutch instructors were instrumental in successfully training 180 deminers from the Eritrean Demining Agency at the time. The Swedish Rescue Services Agency (SRSA) also offered to provide the UN programme three advisors in 2001: A Medical Coordinator, an IMSMA Officer and an EOD Training Advisor. While SRSA is no longer providing an EOD Training Advisor, the SRSA continues to provide the Medical Coordinator and the IMSMA Officer. SRSA also generously provided vehicles and other important equipment required by the SRSA advisors and the UNMEE MACC. Finally, the Swiss Government also provided an in-kind staff as a Logistics Advisor to the UNMEE MACC and an EOD Officer who works with the MACC EOD Team. These generous contributions of in-kind personnel by donors has played an important role in helping the UNMEE MACC get established and become fully operational. They have all made an enormous contribution to the programme in that they are an efficient and cost-effective means of supplementing the MACC’s core technical expertise. |
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