UDS took part in the meeting of the Ministry of Economy with mine action stakeholders

📌 Purpose of the meeting:

- Exchange of information between the government, mine action operators and other stakeholders on the latest news and processes in the field of mine action.

- Discussion of problems and challenges faced by PHC participants.

- Coordination of the next steps in the activities of stakeholders.

The Ministry of Economy emphasized that such meetings will take place regularly.

During this meeting, the issues of pricing, the possibility of subcontracting, as well as the issue of taxation in mine action were intensively discussed.

UDS took part in the discussion on the topic of Bozena remote demining vehicles, which the company purchased from Slovakia for use in humanitarian demining operations. In particular, "Delivery of Bozena 5+ demining systems to Ukraine".

Currently, Bozena is involved by UDS sappers to demine agricultural land in the Mykolaiv region.

Volodymyr Beshley, Deputy Head of UDS, said:

💬 "UDS invited the Ministry of Economy and donors to get acquainted with the demining process in the Mykolaiv region, where our humanitarian demining teams are currently working. We will prepare such a demonstration of the main demining processes so that the Ministry of Economy and donors can get acquainted in detail with all stages and components of mine action. Representatives of the Ministry of Economy responded to our proposal. In the near future, we will develop a program for such an event and present it to the Ministry. Overall, our interaction is constructive and inspiring."

The discussion was wide and big with the involvement of leading industry experts. In total, in addition to the UDS report, more than 10 topics in the field of mine action were presented for discussion.

📌 List of topics and speakers:

- "Mine Action Stakeholders Coordination Mechanism. Format of Working Groups and Pilot Working Groups": Yuliia Demchuk

- "Operational Plan: Progress and Next Steps": Oleg Stoev

- "Development of pricing and compensation methodology. Updated Operator Certification Mechanism": Dmytro Panshin

- "The Ministry of Economy's Approach to Prioritizing Demining of Territories": Olena Pareniuk

- "Innovations in Primary Health Care: Plans and Future Activities. Certification of developments in the field of primary health care": Ministry of Economy, UNDP, SRI

- "Recent Developments in Risk Education and Victim Care (EORE and VA)": DRC

- "Economic Impact of GNP, TBI Work in Ukraine": TBI

- "Pollution of the GNP of the Kharkiv region and the needs of the OPMD": Mellom PRO

- "Extension of the certification of NIBULON LLC. Willingness to provide services to third parties": NIBULON

- "Deminetec enters the Ukrainian market": Deminetec

- "Current projects of Chernihiv region": UNOPS