Peru

Peru submitted a request to extend its Article 5 deadline for the third time under the Anti-Personnel Mine Ban Convention (APMBC) in March 2024. Peru cleared just over 48,000m² of mined area in 2023, more than twice the output of the previous year. However, it still did not use non-technical survey (NTS) or technical survey (TS) to speed up land release. Peru’s Ministry of Defence and Norwegian People’s Aid (NPA) signed a five-year memorandum of understanding (MoU) in February 2023, which includes provision for humanitarian demining.

Since the Fourth APMBC Review Conference in 2019, Peru was working in a second extended Article 5 deadline with the aim of completing clearance of anti-personnel (AP) mines by the end of 2024. It failed to do so. It continues to work with the Organization of American States whose Comprehensive Action Against Anti-Personnel Mines Program (OAS-AICMA) has been supporting Peru in fundraising, including with a presentation to potential donors in November 2023 in Washington, DC. In November 2023, the Organization of American States, through the Comprehensive Action Against Anti-Personnel Mines Program (OAS-AICMA) organized an event in Washington DC entitled, “In support of the completion of demining efforts: Reaching the goal of a mine-free Ecuador and Peru”. The event aimed to attract new potential donors, but as at September 2024, no new donors had been secured.

• Peru should strive to improve operational efficiencies and should continue to work with international partners to strengthen land release methodology, including further reviewing its national mine action standards (NMAS).
• Peru should ensure evidence-based non-technical survey (NTS) and technical survey (TS) are conducted prior to full clearance, in order to identify and delineate confirmed hazardous area (CHA) and to cancel through NTS and reduce through TS areas found not to be contaminated.
• Peru should elaborate a gender and diversity policy and mine action data should be systematically disaggregated by sex and age.
• Peru should elaborate an environmental policy for its mine action programme.
• Peru should detail the international funding required in a resource mobilisation strategy so that it can conclude clearance and fulfil its Article 5 obligations within three years instead of five.

Click here to download the "Clearing the Mines 2024" report for Peru.