Measures for mines: approaches to impact assessment in humanitarian mine action

摘要: The ability to assess the impact of humanitarian interventions is key both for priority-setting and maximising quality projects. Humanitarian mine action (hma) a young sector, where application assessment still in its infancy. In this article we will briefly revisit history hma, before reviewing strengths weaknesses three different impact-assessment approaches: 1) Landmine Impact Survey; 2) economic analysis; 3) community studies. Each approaches has own merits as well shortcomings selection one approach, or several combined, needs be informed by particular conditions given setting. We argue that hma should always based on sound practices, but also it important encourage general understanding broader issues—as opposed narrow output definitions—among all relevant stakeholders. spite considerable progress over past few ...