About Us 

Goals: 

Mine Awareness: 

Mine awareness provides individuals with knowledge leading to an understanding of the problem and seeks to impart the skills and confidence, which result in consistently safe behavior in contaminated environments. 

OMAR mine awareness program focused on educating people who live and work in an environment contaminated by mines and explosive devices.  The program incorporates avoidance strategies and community involvement in the reporting of threats and the maintenance of high-risk area warning systems.  It should also include reinforcement training through public awareness messages, and education through public institution and community action committees.

The goals of the mine awareness component of OMAR are as under: 

To make mine awareness education available to Afghan people, refugees awaiting repatriation and any person visiting or working in Afghanistan. 

To establish and maintain a system of community-based committees that can provide a broad based, sustainable education on mines.  The system must be able to educate target groups on the threat, threat avoidance strategies, and reporting of contamination and other mine action related data.

The development and maintenance of a system for reporting the location of areas contaminated by mines and other explosives. 

Strategies: 

Continuously develop and carry out education and information initiatives for vulnerable groups at all levels through media broadcasts and decentralized projects. 

Continuously develop and support community-based mine awareness projects focused on empowering local communities to carry out mine avoidance strategies, high risk area reporting procedures and the maintenance of high risk area warning systems. 

Provide high quality threat awareness education to all target groups including local communities, returning refugees, staff of aid organizations, visitors etc. 

Develop and support an institutional mine awareness capability. 

Indicators: 

The number of people who receive mine awareness education training. 

A reduction in injuries attributable to the application of avoidance strategies. 

Increased participation in self-help programs for mine awareness and involvement in the establishment of community-based priorities for threat elimination projects. 

Increase in the quantity of accurate reports of high risk areas. 

B.  Mine Clearance:

The aim of OMAR mine clearance operation is to create an environment in which people can live more safely and in which economic and social development can occur free from the constraints imposed by land-mine contamination.  The ultimate elimination of the mines problem can only be achieved through the destruction of all explosive devices.  The goal can be achieved through:

The development and maintenance of a sustainable system for the controlled and systematic clearance of contaminated land. 

The development and application of sustainable, efficient and cost effective clearance technologies. 

The application of safe technologies to reduce mine and UXO incidents, injuries and deaths, which occur in the clearance process. 

OMAR continues to incorporate amendments and modifications to mine clearance and mine awareness