Why risk education on cluster munition matters: a deep dive on RE in the Lausanne Action Plan
Channel: EORE Advisory Group
Date: 21/10/2021

The humanitarian consequences of cluster munitions are severe and long-lasting, with civilians accounting for all recorded casualties in 2019. The critical role of risk education in protecting civilians from the risks of cluster munitions has been firmly recognised by States Parties in the Lausanne Action Plan (LAP), which sets out four concrete actions related to this Convention obligation. But what is meant by ‘context-specific, tailor-made risk education’? How can data on contamination and casualties inform risk education? And what exactly does a risk education strategy look like?

On 21 September 2021, the Explosive Ordnance Risk Education Advisory Group (EORE AG) organised a virtual side event to the Second Review Conference of the Convention on Cluster Munitions (CCM). The side event aimed to bring these actions from the LAP to life through real examples that concretely demonstrated how they can be upheld.

Key Speakers: 
00:00  Aidan Liddle, UK Ambassador and Permanent Representative to the Conference on Disarmament in Geneva; President of the 10th Meeting of States Parties (10MSP) of the CCM
08:10 Ruth Bottomley, Researcher, Impact Team, ICBL-CMC Landmine and Cluster Munition Monitor
17:45 Lyuba Guerassimova, Programme Management Specialist, UNMAS Afghanistan
32:54 Mohammad Jassim, Risk Education Supervisor, Al-Ghad League, Iraq
44:55 Celine Cheng, EORE HQ Specialist, Humanity & Inclusion; Co-Chair of the EORE AG
1:08:32 Discussion

About the EORE AG 
The EORE Advisory Group provides overall guidance to the sector and identifies ways to improve the integration, effectiveness, efficiency and relevance of EORE. Established in 2019, it draws on the expertise of over a dozen UN agencies, international organisations and international NGOs who serve as members or observers to the group. It is co-chaired by UNICEF and a rotating NGO – Humanity and Inclusion (HI) at the time of this event – and the Geneva International Centre for Humanitarian Demining (GICHD) serves as secretariat. 

Key links  
Lausanne Action Plan: https://undocs.org/en/CCM/CONF/2020/PM.2/WP.4
EORE AG: https://bit.ly/EOREAG
Join the iMREWG: https://dgroups.org/groups/imrewg