6 December 2017
The conference room was full at the Army Hotel in Hanoi, Vietnam on Tuesday 5 December 2017 with highly skilled technicians and mine action operators who were ready to talk in detail about the new project “Long-term risk management of explosive remnants of war (ERW)”.
This project was kicked off at a day-long workshop that covered topics from a new ageing study ERW and a quality management project. The central province of Quang Tri will be the focus of this 8-month pilot study and many representatives from the area were on hand to participate in the workshop.
Representatives from the Vietnamese Mine Action Centre (VNMAC), BOMICEN, Fenix Insight and the GICHD presented on topics that ranged from the technical procedures of transporting, cutting and dissecting of ERW to a comparison of lessons learned from Lao and Cambodia on similar subjects.
This workshop marks a strong next step for Vietnam, which has been an inspiring example in the region for its long-term risk management approach.
