Tajikistan Mine Action News
Mine Clearance Activities Start with the Training
Based on prepared plan and guideline on Mine
Clearance operations for 2009, the activities have
been launched from the trainings. These special
trainings were provided for the Team Medics and MDD
Handlers and started on February 2. Training for the
Team Leaders started on February 9, 2009.
Trainings have been conducted by the Demining Agency
in Tajikistan - Swiss Foundation for Mine Action (FSD)
under coordination of TMAC. Since that time to
February 13 TMAC QA Team conducted 4 monitoring of
ongoing trainings that resulted to the positive
quality of trainings.
On February 12 TMAC organized the final workshop on
the mine clearance operations completed in 2008 in
the engineering battalion of the Ministry of Defense
of the Republic Tajikistan located in the Rudaki
district. 30 programme operation staff participated
in the activities of 2008 workshops. Information
about TMAC activities was presented in the seminar,
as well as general results of the mine clearance in
2008. Difficulties, lacks on operations and the ways
of solution have been discussed by participants to
avoid any problems in the future activities.
At the end of the workshop those, who achieved
target goals of 2008 and contributed effectively to
the implementation of the mine clearance Program in
Tajikistan have been awarded with the valued gifts
and TMAC’s Honored Certificate.
Besides, on February 13 TMAC Program staff – senior
QA officer Shonazarov Asafbek, MRE Officer Davlatova
Shahrinisso and MVA Officer Muminova Reykhan
conducted training on their respective issues to the
Team Leaders and Supervisors.
