Raking It All Up After 10 Years

For two years, Norwegian People\u27s Aid (NPA) in Sri Lanka has provided assistance to the Tamil demining groups and authorities, helping them to refine their own systems and to meet the requirements of the International Mine Action Standards. Uniquely, they have achieved this without losing the low-cost features that are essential to any locally sustainable method. Recently NPA has begun to support a similar process in government-controlled areas, working with both the army—in cooperation with RONCO—and civil demining groups. Their civil partners are the Milinda Morigoda Institute for People\u27s Empowerment, HORIZON and SARVATRA—the first is a local Sri Lankan non-governmental organization (NGO) moving into humanitarian demining and the latter two are demining branches of development NGOs based in India and staffed by experienced deminers