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Dan Church Aid (DCA)

Titre : Land release in Baabda and Aley districts, Mount Lebanon for socio-economic development

Région / Pays : Liban

Durée : September 2020 – August 2022

Contexte
62 communities in Aley and Baabda in Mount Lebanon are confirmed to be contaminated by landmines, cluster munition and other explosive remnants of war, posing a threat to life and limb, and affecting residential areas, agriculture, and grazing land. Of 157 confirmed hazardous areas, the Lebanon Mine Action Center considers 76 to be high priority for clearance. Lebanon has been in an economic and political crisis since September 2019, and mine/explosive remnants of war (ERW) clearance contributes to stability and improving the socioeconomic situation by releasing land for productive and safe use.

Descriptif
DCA’s overall objective is to support and assist the Government of Lebanon through the Lebanon Mine Action Center in achieving their convention obligation and national mine action priorities following decades of armed conflicts and to support socio-economic development in high priority mine affected communities in Aley and Baabda. DCA implemented a 12-month project to survey and clear tasks that have a high socio-economic impact in the Mount Lebanon districts of Aley and Baabda. The project adopted a land release approach to ensure efficiency, conducting non-technical survey to recommend cancellation of land for which there is no evidence of contamination, and technical survey to reduce hazardous areas, thus avoiding unnecessary costly clearance activities.

Financement : U.S. Department of State
Budget : USD 994,840

Présentation : Dan Church Aid (DCA)