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Institutional Architecture of Humanitarian Mine Action in Ukraine

This analysis maps the roles and responsibilities of Ukraine’s key mine action institutions, highlighting overlapping mandates and legal gaps and setting out recommendations to strengthen coordination, accountability, tasking, information management and quality assurance.

©DRC Ukraine, Kharkiv Oblast, March 2026, Krystyna Pashkina

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Executive summary

This Legal Brief explains the institutional architecture of humanitarian mine action (HMA) in Ukraine, the legal position of the Centre for Humanitarian Demining (CHD) within that architecture, and the remaining allocation gaps between CHD, the Mine Action Centre (MAC), the National Mine Action Authority (NMAA) and other actors. It focuses on the practical effect of Cabinet of Ministers Resolution No. 738 of 4 June 2026. The assessment is based on publicly available sources.

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