Current practice in rehabilitation rarely achieves this goal. The allocation of funds and the guidelines applied are determined by political interests and the aim of being able to show results as soon as possible. Whether the de-mining of roads really does contribute to the rejuvenation of agriculture, whether the resettled people are able to build democratic social structures which respect human rights and whether the prosthetics really help the reintegration of the injured, remain matters of only secondary interest. Article 6 of the Agreement requires alongside mine clearance the physical rehabilitation of victims as well as their social and economic reintegration. Reintegration can only succeed of course when the social fabric into which they are to be reintegrated and which has been damaged by war, is itself rehabilitated.
Programmes makes such an approach mandatory.
In June 1997 experts from all over the world met in Bad Honnef in Germany in order to draft a framework for such comprehensive Mine Action Programmes. The objective was not to design a catalogue of universally valid criteria, directly prescribing action. Such a catalogue, however tempting it may be, would inevitably be bound to fail because it would, by its very nature, ignore the specific social and cultural context in which any concrete actions must be embedded. Only with an integrated consideration of all the areas of activity aiming at rebuilding and a resumption of peace, can Mine Action Programmes contribute to a permanent change. Solidarity - The aim is the immediacy of support which is conveyed by the idea of solidarity and the encouragement of autonomy and which does not promote new dependencies.