Myanmar

Mine Risk Education:

Lessons Learnt from conducting A Knowledge, Attitudes,

& Practices Survey

Presented by U Aung Kyaw Moe, Director

January 2012, Department for Social Welfare, UNICEF conducted MRE workshops in all states and regions with severe mine problems, over 350 participants.

April 27 2012: MRE Working Group formed under Department of Social Welfare, Naypyidaw. Consists of 11 Ministries, multiple, faith based, community and Local NGOs, as well as UN agencies and INGOs.

MIMU 3W:

Mine Action Sector - Countrywide

Township Level

23 Oct, 2013

MIMU 3W:

Humanitarian Actors –Kachin

MIMU 3W:

Villages Identified with Victim

Activated Explosion since 2010 for

Inclusion in MRE KAP Survey

• A KAP Survey is a representative survey conducted on a particular population to identify the Knowledge (K), Attitudes (A) and Practices (P) of a population on a specific topic. •Cluster Sampling: Because we cannot meausre every person in South-East Myanmar we identified a sample of people to represent the population

What is a KAP survey?

MRE KAP Teams

working

MRE KAP Teams conducted over 1,200 interviews with Key Informants, Heads of Households, Children and LM Survivors.

MRE Evaluation

This first KAP is a Baseline Survey

A second KAP in the future will allow comparison to evaluate the effectiveness of MRE interventions

T1

T2

Baseline KAP

Comparative KAP MRE Interventions

Data KAP Other Surveys

Victim Inf. system

MIMU:

Mine Action Sector – Countrywide

Accidents

State / Region Dec, 2012