SIMAS is an indigenous South Sudanese mine action NGO, registered with the Government of South Sudan to clear landmines and explosive remnants of war from conflict affected communities in South Sudan. SIMAS have been in cooperation with FSD since 2004. In 2006, FSD and SIMAS signed partnership agreement and FSD started the project of SIMAS capacity building providing training and coaching to SIMAS staff, in both technical and managerial aspects.
The ultimate aim of the project is to develop SIMAS into a technically viable, administratively competent and ultimately independent South Sudanese mine action NGO.
SIMAS held a workshop entitled “SIMAS and Stakeholders – Roles and Plans” was conducted on Wednesday, 30 June 2010 at “Home and Away” conference facility in Juba, South Sudan. The workshop was organised as a joint initiative of Sudan Integrated Mine Action Service (SIMAS) and its partner the Swiss Foundation for Mine Action (FSD).
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