Guidelines for the Care and Rehabilitation of Survivors
International Campaign to Ban Landmines (ICBL)
Working Group on Victim Assistance
The ICBL Working Group on Victim Assistance, comprised of more than 25 international humanitarian and development organizations, has developed a set of programmatic guidelines to help shape and promote comprehensive rehabilitation for hundreds of thousands of landmine survivors worldwide.
The ICBL Guidelines for the Care and Rehabilitation of Survivors are intended to help diverse actors, including donors and program implementers, develop and fund the most effective programs to help landmine victims heal, recover and resume their roles as productive and contributing members of their societies. It is recognized that mine victims include those who, either individually or collectively, have suffered physical, emotional and psychological injury, economic loss or substantial impairment of their fundamental rights through acts or omissions related to mine utilization.
These programmatic guidelines are intended to address the care and rehabilitation of those victims who have suffered physical injury from landmines. Many of the recommendations also apply to other persons with disabilities.
Assistance for Victims of Anti-Personnel Mines: Needs, Constraints, and Strategy
Robin M. Coupland, International Committee for the Red Cross, Geneva 1997.
This brochure discusses the needs of landmine victims in medical terms and discusses the challenges in providing surgical care and rehabilitation. The brochure includes an outline for a new strategy of making effective assistance available to a larger proportion of mine victims.
Standard Rules on the Equalization of Opportunities for Persons with Disabilities
Social Development Division, United Nations ESCAP
The Standard Rules on the Equalization of Opportunities for Persons with Disabilities were adopted by the United Nations General Assembly at its 48th session, 20 December 1993 (Resolution 48/96). The Rules were developed "to ensure that girls, boys, women and men with disabilities, as members of their societies, may exercise the same rights and obligations as others…The equalization of opportunities for persons with disabilities is an essential contribution in the general and worldwide effort to mobilize human resources."
International Guidelines for Landmine and Unexploded Ordnance Awareness Education
The Office of Emergency Programs, United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF), New York
UNICEF, appointed as the United Nations Focal Point for mine awareness education, developed these International Guidelines in order to promote the effective planning, implementation, monitoring, and evaluation of mine awareness programs. The Guidelines were designed to serve people involved in mine awareness programs and they cover the following four aspects of program design: feasibility study; needs assessment; program planning and monitoring and evaluation.
Guidelines for Mine Action Programs from a development-oriented point of view
Bad Honnef, June 1997
These guidelines are aimed at aid programs addressing the threat by landmines. The purpose of the guidelines is to provide mine action programs with a framework for action on the following: participation of people directly concerned; integrating mine action programs into comprehensive reconstruction and development programs; and, implementing humanitarian action designed to promote autonomy.
Strategic Framework for Planning Integrated Mine Victim Assistance Programs
Presented by the Swiss Government, Meeting of the States Parties to the Convention on the Prohibition of the Use, Stockpiling, Production and Transfer of APM and on their Destruction. Maputo, Mozambique, May 2000.
The Strategic Framework's goal is "to facilitate the inter-sectoral integration among assistance programs, donors, governmental including public health and social services and non-governmental agencies…Achieving a more balanced distribution of resources, strengthening the capacity of affected countries for planning and execution of programs, and encouraging sustainable, longer term interventions are the main goals of this strategy."
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