Ecuador
| Performance Criterion | Score |
|---|---|
| Understanding of anti-personnel mine contamination (20% of overall score) | 5 |
| National ownership and programme management (10% of overall score) | 6 |
| Gender (10% of overall score) | 3 |
| Information management and reporting (10% of overall score) | 4 |
| Planning and tasking (10% of overall score) | 6 |
| Land release system (20% of overall score) | 5 |
| Land release outputs and Article 5 compliance (20% of overall score) | 3 |
| Performance score | 4.5 |
Key Developments
In 2022, Ecuador requested and was granted a fourth extension to its Anti-Personnel Mine Ban Convention (APMBC) Article 5 deadline through to the end of 2025. This latest extension request, granted for an additional three years, was based on Ecuador claiming to have the resources and funding in place to complete clearance. Despite having become a State Party to the APMBC in 1999, Ecuador still does not have an accurate baseline of contamination and has made extremely slow overall progress in Article 5 implementation, raising compliance concerns with Article 5. For the first time since, 2019 when it cleared 2,899m2, and after two years of inactivity due to the COVID-19 Pandemic; Ecuador announced that it had cleared 5,096m2 of mined area in 2022.
Recommendations for Action
- Ecuador should prioritise necessary non-technical survey (NTS) to accurately determine its baseline of anti-personnel (AP) mine contamination and thereby inform its completion planning.
- Ecuador should further clarify why retrospective quality control is required, how much released area this relates to, what quality control will involve, and what the planned time scale is for conducting the quality control.
- Ecuador should develop National Mine Action Standards (NMAS) in line with International Mine Action Standards (IMAS), in addition to standard operating procedures (SOPs) for demining through to completion.
- Ecuador should develop a strategy for managing any residual contamination discovered after Article 5 completion.
- Ecuador should elaborate a gender and diversity policy and mine action data should be systematically disaggregated by sex and age.
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