Norwegian People's Aid MAD Iraq
Norwegian People's Aid has worked in Iraq since 1995.
Our local partner organizations push for democratisation,
social changeand increased participation.
Mine Action and Disarmament
NPA is one of the longest standing humanitarian mine action operators inside Iraq with a presence since 1995. Due to extensive cluster munition contamination in southern Iraq, NPA has been supporting Iraq to meet its article 4 obligations under the Convention on Cluster Munitions (CCM) by conducting survey and clearance of cluster munitions (since 2013) and providing advisory support to the Regional Mine Action Centre South (since 2010). In response to the humanitarian crisis in the wake of ISIS’ occupation of large parts of Iraq, NPA started up mine action activities in Ninewa Governorate in 2017. And from 2018 NPA began undertaking survey, clearance and explosive ordnance risk education (EORE) in Anbar Governorate, thus filling a large gap in humanitarian assistance within mine action in Iraq.