Sources
Where our figures come from
Everything factual on this website can be traced to one of the documents below. Organisation-wide figures are cumulative to May 2026 and are updated when MCPA publishes new totals.
Documents
- MCPA Organisational Profile (2026)Dated 30 September 2026. History, capabilities, governance, contact details and all organisation-wide figures (cumulative to May 2026), including land by type, ordnance by type, donor funding, regional reach and project counts.
- Case-study reports 1 to 3, STFA-funded project RFQ/2025/56870, Shamati (1), LaghmanSubmitted 3 June, 5 July and 20 July 2025. Used for Shamati takes back its fields; final figures from the report of 20 July 2025.
- Case study, "Safety for Returnees", STFA-funded project RFQ/2025/56870, MihtarlamUsed for What Mohammad Amin remembered, including the national accident figure it cites.
- Case study, UXO Non-Technical Survey for SESEHA, UNDPAFGRRPA/2024/05/01Submitted 20 August 2025. Used for Before the solar panels, the surveyors.
- Case-study report 02, ABADEI 2.0 / STFA Northeast (PAIDAAR), task MAPA-Hotline-000563Submitted 14 May 2026. Used for The junk shop in Nahrin bazaar.
- Case study, AHF project 26371, Imam Sahib, KunduzUsed for Qerghez, after the mines.
- Case study, hotline HRL#11406, OCHA-funded project 28012Used for The locked room.
- Case study, "Safety for Returnees", AHF project CBPF-AFG-24-R-NGO-28012Used for Beyond the minefield: two referrals.
- Photographic record, Pasab village, Zhari district, Kandahar (MCPA-DT-03)Used for Pasab, before and after.
- MCPA project registerUsed only to confirm project dates and, for Pasab, the project the photographs fall within.
- Province boundaries: geoBoundaries (public domain)Used to draw the maps. Boundaries are shown for orientation only.
- Photographs, drawing and filmAll photographs are MCPA's own. The ink drawing on the home page is an illustration based on an MCPA field photograph. The film at the top of the home page is an illustration of how land is released, drawn for this website; it is not a map of a real place. No photograph has been generated or altered by artificial intelligence.
Abbreviations
- AHF
- Afghanistan Humanitarian Fund, a pooled fund managed by OCHA
- AIM
- Abandoned improvised mine
- AMAS / IMAS
- Afghanistan Mine Action Standards / International Mine Action Standards
- ANDMA
- Afghanistan National Disaster Management Authority
- BAC
- Battle-area clearance
- CBPF
- Country-based pooled fund (OCHA)
- DMAC
- Directorate of Mine Action Coordination
- DRC
- Danish Refugee Council
- EO / ERW / UXO
- Explosive ordnance / explosive remnants of war / unexploded ordnance
- EOD
- Explosive ordnance disposal
- EORE
- Explosive ordnance risk education
- MAPA
- Mine Action Programme of Afghanistan
- MATC
- Mine Action Technical Committee
- MIS
- Management Information System
- NTS / TS
- Non-technical survey / technical survey
- OCHA
- UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs
- PM/WRA
- US Department of State, Office of Weapons Removal and Abatement
- QRT
- Quick response team
- STFA
- Special Trust Fund for Afghanistan
- UNMAS
- United Nations Mine Action Service
- UNOPS
- United Nations Office for Project Services
- VTF
- UN Voluntary Trust Fund for Assistance in Mine Action
Notes on reading the figures
- Reach is not clearance. MCPA has worked in all 34 provinces. That does not mean those provinces are clear of contamination.
- Cumulative totals cover 1990 to May 2026 and include work funded by many donors over 36 years.
- Story figures are those in the relevant field report at the date it was written. Where a report describes something as planned or expected, we say so.
- Photographs are MCPA's own. Exact coordinates recorded on field photographs have been cropped out.