Contribution to the Mine Ban Convention Implementation Support Unit (ISU)



Contract partner: GICHD - Geneva International Centre for Humanitarian Demining Country: Entwicklungsländer, unspezifisch Funding amount: € 30.000,00 Project start: 01.01.2010 End: 31.12.2010

Short Description:

Overall goal


The Implementation Support Unit (ISU) of the Geneva International Centre for Humanitarian Demining (GICHD) provides professional support to the Anti-Personnel Mine Ban Convention and its States Parties. The GICHD was mandated by the States Parties in 2001 to establish the ISU. States in a position to do so are encouraged to make voluntary contributions in support of the ISU, and Austria has done so throughout the last few years.

The core operations of the ISU include:


- advising State Parties on matters related to implementation and compliance of the Mine Ban Treaty

- supporting States Parties in preparing transparency reports,

- providing training on understanding the Mine Ban Convention and its operations

- supporting the preparations of the yearly Meeting of the States Parties,

- serving as the authoritative source of information on the Mine Ban Convention.


Another area of support that the ISU will continue to provide in 2010 concerns victim assistance:

Since 2005, the ISU's support to States Parties on victim assistance has become a core programmatic area of work for the ISU. That is, advice and support to relevant States Parties is necessary as long as such States Parties continue to need and desire advisory services. Therefore, core advisory services on victim assistance have been incorporated into the 2010 ISU budget for the first time.

project number 2083-00/2010
source of funding OEZA
sector Frieden und Sicherheit
tied
modality
marker
  • Policy marker: are used to identify, assess and facilitate the monitoring of activities in support of policy objectives concerning gender equality, aid to environment, participatory development/good governance, trade development and reproductive, maternal, newborn and child health. Activities targeting the objectives of the Rio Conventions include the identification of biodiversity, climate change mitigation, climate change adaptation, and desertification.
    • 1= policy is a significant objective of the activity
    • 2= policy is the principal objective of the activity
  • Donor/ source of funding: The ADA is not only implementing projects and programmes of the Austrian Development Cooperation , but also projects funded from other sources and donors such as
    • AKF - Foreign Disaster Fund of the Austrian federal government
    • BMLFUW - Federal Ministry for Agriculture, Forestry, Environment and Water
    • EU - Funds of the European Commission
    • Others - various other donors are listed in ADA’s annual business report.
  • Type of Aid – Aid modalities: classifies transfers from the donor to the first recipient of funds such as budget support, core contributions and pooled programmes and funds to CSOs and multilateral organisations, project-type interventions, experts and other technical assistance, scholarships and student costs in donor countries, debt relief, administrative costs and other in-donor expenditures.
  • Purpose/ sector code: classifies the specific area of the recipient’s economic or social structure, funded by a bilateral contribution.
  • Tied/Untied: Untied aid is defined as loans and grants whose proceeds are fully and freely available to finance procurement from all OECD countries and substantially all developing countries. Transactions are considered tied unless the donor has, at the time of the aid offer, clearly specified a range of countries eligible for procurement which meets the tests for “untied” aid.
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