The National Demining Office (NDO) was established in 1998 by the Lebanese Council of Ministers and is the coordinating body for all humanitarian mine action activities in Lebanon.  The NDO coordinates the work of all organizations that aid humanitarian mine action activities in Lebanon.

While a total of more than 25 square kilometers of land have been cleared of mines and UXO since 1982, the Lebanon Landmine Impact Survey, carried out in 2003 estimated that 137 square kilometers of suspected contaminated land remain in five out of the six Lebanese Provinces.  This residual area compromises more than 2500 mine fields and suspected dangerous areas throughout the Country; affecting over 1,000.000 inhabitants of Lebanon.   The heaviest concentration of mines is in southern Lebanon with an estimated 75 percent of the more than 400,000 landmines believed to be still in the ground throughout in this region.

The toll on the Lebanese people has been tragic.  Since 1975  about 4000 people have been killed or injured due to the effects of landmines and unexploded ordnance.  This figure has dropped significantly since the institution of a dynamic Mine Risk Education programme in Lebanon, but it is only through the clearance of contaminated areas that the risk of injury and death due to explosive remnants of war will cease to be a problem for the Lebanese people.