Agency For Rehabilitaion & Energy Conservation In Afghanistan(AREA)

AREA CBMAP was established in 1995 and is sufficiently experienced in organizing communities to handle their own mine /ERW problems by themselves. The concept of working CBMAP within AREA, is to ensure a link of the CB (community based) demining operations with the AREA’s development interventions. The vision of AREA CBMAP is to save lives and limbs, and improve livelihood of the afghan people conducive to development interventions. The mission of AREA CBMAP is to contribute to humanitarian mine action program and to make the land safe from the threat of land mines and ERW (explosive remnants of war) for productive use and promoting livelihoods, safety and security. The CBMAP has a highly organized management system consisting of different sections: Program, Operations, EORE, Quality Management (QM) & Training, Finance, Logistics, Admin-HR, Gender and IT. The CBMAP Operations department owns a complete demining toolbox including Non-Technical Survey (NTS), Technical Survey (TS), Mine/Explosive Remnants of War (ERW) Clearance, Explosive Ordnance Disposal (EOD) and Explosive Ordnance Risk Education (EORE) components. Agriculture sector, within AREA’s community development perspective remains as a prime initiative due to the country and population’s high level food security, livelihood and economic demand. Agriculture has usually constituted and played major role in sustainable food and economic stability in the history of Afghanistan’s food and economy. Based on such purpose, A