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The EOD IS-Survey Tool was introduced to a group of mine action personnel
in Albania on 10-21 May 2004. The first week consisted of classroom training
and field exercises in and around AMAE (Albania Mine Action Executive) headquarters
in Tirana. Participants included five personnel from AMAE and one from Danish
Church Aid. The trainers were Stefan Kallin and Jean-Paul Rychener and training
was done in English with portions translated into Albanian.
During the second week, field exercises took place at several sites on
and near the Albanian border with Kosovo – these were accessed by
coming from the Kosovo side of the border. Terrain was steep and hilly
and the vegetation varied from dense regrowth deciduous woodland to open
shrub and grassland. The soils were thin and rocky. The temperature was
warm to seasonally cool, and most days were partly cloudy with some days
of rain and fog.
Evaluation forms were filled and written field observations were collected.
Interviews were conducted with four of the participants. Unfortunately,
the survey tool was not put into use in Albania following the training
period and therefore no additional information was collected regarding
its functionality in "real-world" conditions.
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