The Directorate for Mine Action, one of the directorates of the Ministry of Health and Environment, with support by Geneva International Center for Humanitarian Demining (GICHD), holds a technical workshop to present the evaluation results of the national mine action strategy in Iraq for the years 2017-2021 and support the preparation of the new national mine action strategy with support by GICHD in Baghdad.

The Director General of DMA, Eng.Dhafir Mahmood, who headed the workshop sessions, which be held from 15-18 March, said that the workshop was held under the auspices of the Minister of Health and Environment, Dr.Hassan Mohamed Abbas Al-Temimi, where IKMMA participated in it through the closed-circuit television in addition to the presence of the representatives from (Defense, Interior, Planning, Foreign Affairs, Health, Oil, Labor and Social Affairs) Ministries and the General Secretariat of Ministers Council/ Joint Coordination and Monitoring Center, The National Security Advisory, Popular Mobilization Authority as well as the national and international mine action organizations. 

Mahmood added that the workshop aims to identify and clarify the most important obstacles that DMA faced them in implementing the activities of the National Mine Action Strategy for the years 2017-2021 in order to avoid them when preparing and writing the new national mine action strategy for the years 2022-2028.