Increasing the efficiency of the Humanitarian Mine Action process including Mine Victim Assistance in East Ukraine through the development of national Capacity Building The NGO Ukrainian Deminers Association (UDA) in cooperation with implementing Partners: the NGO AirLight (organization of people with disabilities, works to support conflict-affected people, has direct access to mine victims) and the NGO Croatian Support (the biggest Croatian organization, works in humanitarian mine action - HMA) – all together hereinafter also HMA Consortium,   developed a comprehensive and engaging multicluster project to address the needs of the vulnerable group along the contact line and to support the sustainability of people in need, hromadas and Government. 
Using the best world practice for increasing the efficiency of the HMA process in Ukraine, HMA Consortium developed an integrated approach, which will include 3 of 5 HMA pillars: Mine Victim Assistance (MVA), Humanitarian Demining (HD) and Explosive Ordnance Risk Education (EORE).
1. Pillar: MVA
Activity-based on the Croatian experience and is aimed at supporting the Government of Ukraine in establishing a comprehensive, coordinated and gender-responsive MVA system. All activities will be coordinated with the UNDP MA project and GICHD, based on requests from National Mine Action Authority (NMAA) and Mine Action Centers (MAC). The Croatian Support shares its experience in the approaches to collecting information about victims, incident registration, MVA database, as well as the legal framework that regulates these issues. HMA Consortium will conduct special 5-days workshops for the national capacity building. 
The practical part of MVA will include direct assistance to 395 interviewed mine victims and their families who live in the territories of 13 the most conflict-affected hromadas. Comprehensive MVA will provide to 58 people. In this Project, HMA Consortium will concentrate on assistance for adults. To avoid duplication of MVA HMA Consortium will coordinate with NGOs and IOs.
MVA will include health care, protection, food security and livelihoods.
2. Pillar: HD
For increasing the efficiency of the HMA process in Ukraine the HMA Consortium will provide HD  in close cooperation with new established MAC (see attached Memorandum). All stages of humanitarian demining will be provided in accordance with IMAS and the National MA standard. 
For national capacity building all HD activities together with representatives of new established MAC.   
For the assistance of agriculture business in the most-affected hromadas HMA Consortium will provide:
Non-Technical Survey (NTS) according to National HMA Plan for 2021 to support land cancellation, reduction and clearance. Agricultural land will be prioritized for demining and this information will be included in the National HMA Plan for 2022. 
HD and after passing of External Quality Control (QC) the Land Release to Sartana hromada. HMA Consortium will clear agriculture fields and provide support to the agriculture business of local farmers. In 2022 local farmers are able to use these lands for agricultural purposes. 
3. Pillar: EORE
EORE planned by UDA under this grant focused on preparation 300 mine safety leaders in hromadas. 300 certified EORE instructors of hromadas will conduct EORE sessions in educational institutions, enterprises, etc. HMA Consortium will also support EORE leaders to conduct live sessions. Subsequently, around 5000 people will be covered. Instructors will continue their work on an ongoing basis. During EORE TOT HMA Consortium will use the best Croatian experience for increasing the efficiency of the EORE campaign in Ukraine and capacity building. HMA Consortium will also use the existing online EORE ToT Platform (intellectual property of the UDA) to address COVID-19 quarantine and limitations. 
Successful implementation of the three HMA pillars by means of national capacity will significantly improve the efficiency of the HMA process in East Ukraine and thereby the tasks the objectives and strategy of the 2021 HRP.