Ukrainian humanitarian mine action response and assistance NGO Ukrainian Deminers Association (UDA) has elaborated a project within Mine-Action (MA) Subcluster as a relevant urgent response to the humanitarian crisis provoked by the ongoing war in Ukraine based on Ukrainian national MA capacity. This project is aimed at covering the main aspects of the humanitarian mine action (HMA) process, that should be implemented in the current circumstances in Ukraine. HMA activities will be conducted both in cooperation with local authorities (hromadas), as well as through direct interactions with target vulnerable groups of individuals. Activities will be coordinated in conjunction with the MASC.
1. Humanitarian demining (HD)
To increase national capacity the UDA with the help of a new international partner provides the training of 10 deminers of the EOD2 and EOD3 levels from the state and non-state HMA operators. Ukraine lacks deminers with EOD qualifications at 2/3 levels. These are technicians of the command staff, which will help the HMA operators to deploy demining groups and carry out their job safely and effectively. 
To create a sustainable response to the ongoing war in Ukraine, especially to the huge ERW contamination, UDA will provide HD in Makariv hromada. UDA earlier signed a MoU with Makariv hromada in order to help local conflict-affected people and in 2022 identified more than 11 mln. m2 of suspected and confirmed hazardous areas in Makariv hromada, which now requires urgent HD interventions. UDA will release not less than 500,000 m2 of agricultural land of Makariv hromada’s territory.
After the liberation of the Ukrainian lands, many territories are yet to be surveyed. In this project, the UDA will focus on the Non-Technical Survey (NTS) of the territories of hromadas where the survey has not even begun yet, for example, in Sumy and Kharkiv oblast and other conflict-affected hromadas. NTS will help start the procedures for the release of agricultural land. During this Project we will survey not less than 20,000,000 m2 of the territory of the most conflict-affected areas and will submit around 60 NTS reports to the Information Management System for Mine Action (IMSMA). 
2. Mine victims’ assistance (MVA)
UDA would like to further utilize the experience in humanitarian assistance, that we have gained since the start of the full-scale invasion. The project involves comprehensive direct cash assistance to the mine victims (MV) in the most conflict-affected hromadas. 
MVA will include three main steps: interviewing the victim, protection counselling, direct cash assistance and PDM. The amount of assistance is set to 500 USD. UDA will provide such kind of assistance to mine victims based on the database of those we have been collecting since February 24 2022. Apart from our database, we will identify and verify other victims through cooperation with the most conflict-affected hromadas, social protection services, and medical facilities within them. The project will help 100 victims. All assistance shall be provided with respect to the rules and provisions set forth by the Law of Ukraine on Mine Action in Ukraine, the National MA Standard, and the IMAS recommendations.
3. Explosive ordnance risk education (EORE)
With the outbreak of a full-scale war, UDA began to hold EORE sessions throughout Ukraine in various formats. In 2022 UDA received a new EORE certificate from MAC. The peculiarity of these events will be that the session will be held in combination with sessions of Conflict Preparedness and Protection (CPP) of civilian population (experience gained from previous UDA’s projects, including projects with international organizations such as MAG and NPA). During this project, we will create 4 mobile EORE/CPP teams in 8 regions of Ukraine for the most conflict-affected hromadas and IDPs. In addition, the UDA will conduct a large digital campaign, which will also include the use of existing IT components in UDA.