Working Group
The working group meets online every two months. We regularly invite expert speakers to present on different topics. Some of the topics we've covered to date include: sustainability and mine action in Afghanistan, remediation of demolition sites, waste management, alternatives to open burning and detonation, climate change adaptation.
Next meeting
Our next EIMA online meeting will be on Wednesday 8 October 2025, 15:00 - 16:00, Geneva time.
To register for the meeting, please visit
Remember, you can also see updates and contribute posts in our Linkedin Group.
Past meetings and presentations
January
| Presentations | 
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| EIMA Jan 2024 | 
| Learning from declassified U.S. satellite imagery to detect crater damage in Vietnam | 
March
| Presentations | 
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| EIMA Mar 2024 | 
May
| Presentations | 
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| Post-war conservation in Angola | 
| EIMA May 2024 | 
July
| Presentations | 
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| Catalogue of NbS for peace and security | 
| EIMA July 2024 | 
September
| Presentations | 
| EIMA Sept 2024 | 
November
| Presentations | 
| EIMA Nov 2024 | 
| Dr Olena Melnyk, Soil sampling Ukraine | 
November
| Presentations | 
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| EIMA Nov 2023 | 
| Royal Agricultural University, UK - Ukraine soil sampling (pending) | 
September
| Presentations | 
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| EIMA Sept 2023 | 
| Climate Finance Entry Points for Mine Action Organizations | 
June
| Minutes | Presentations | 
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| EIMA meeting minutes 28 June | EIMA June 2023 | 
| Management Considerations for Contaminated Land ADAS June 2023 | |
| UK example of explosives remediation | 
April
| Minutes | Presentations | 
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| EIMA meeting minutes 26 April | EIMA Apr 2023 | 
February
| Minutes | Presentation | 
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| EIMA meeting minutes 22 Feb | EIMA Feb 2023 | 
| Sustainable farming | 
December
| Minutes | Presentations | 
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| EIMA meeting minutes 7 Dec | Soil health | 
October
| Presentations | 
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| Earth observation for mine action | 
| EIMA Oct 2022 | 
August
| Minutes | Presentations | 
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| EIMA meeting minutes 3 Aug | Nature based solutions and land release | 
May
| Minutes | Presentations | 
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| EIMA meeting minutes 25 May | EIMA May 2022 | 
March
| Minutes | Presentations | 
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| EIMA meeting minutes 23 Mar | An Alternative Treatment Technology to Open Burning and Open Detonation of Energetic Hazardous Wastes | 
January 
| Minutes | Presentations | 
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| EIMA meeting minutes 26 Jan | Zero Waste Laos and NPA Environmental Partnerships | 
December
| Minutes | Presentation | 
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| EIMA meeting minutes 16 Dec | 
December
| Minutes | Presentations | 
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| EIMA meeting minutes 1 Dec | What would be the objectives of the white paper? | 
August
| Minutes | Presentations | 
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| EIMA meeting minutes 18 Aug | Enviromental sustainability and mine action | 
April
| Minutes | Presentations | 
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| EIMA meeting April 2020 | Environmental Mainstreaming in Humanitarian Interventions |