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The Country Structure represents a gazetteer, the political or administrative divisions within a country. In {{IMSMANG}}, the Country Structure allows a Mine Action Programme to link Mine Action information to areas and report statistics such as number of victims per province or district. Ideally, a Mine Action Programme uses an official, countrywide Country Structure that ensures mine action information is compatible with other national datasets.
Ideally, the Country Structure in {{IMSMANG}}, covers all levels of the existing Country Structure, from the country level down to a level that can be represented with a single point such as a town or village. If a Mine Action programme Programme has special levels such as Areas of Responsibility that do not exists in the Country Structure, artificial levels may be inserted into the Country Structure in {{IMSMANG}}.
To display a Country Structure node like a town or village on the map, it is necessary to add a geographic coordinate for the node.
{{Note | Other categories than ''Landmines'' have ordnance that belong to the subcategory ''Anti-Personnel'' so if you only want to report on AP-mines you need to filter on both category '''and''' subcategory. }}
Furthermore, programmes Mine Action Programmes can limit which ordnance can be used for data entry by making ordnance inactive. To making only the ordnance that may be found in the country facilitates both data entry and data quality.
{{New_6.0 | IED, Less-lethal weapons, Light weapons, MANPADS, Small Arm Ammunitions and Small Arms have been added as Category.
==Organisations==__NOEDITSECTION__
{{IMSMANG}} provides the ability to track information about Organisations participating in Mine Action. Organisations can be categorised by type and assigned “work areas” based on the Country Structure. To display Organisations on the map, they must have geospatial data (minimum one set of coordinates).
Additionally, {{IMSMANG}} supports the creation of parent-child relationships with organisations so that information managers can create hierarchies of organisations. For example, a mine clearance organisation may be responsible for several clearance teams within a country. As shown in the figure below, this relationship can be mapped by creating one organisation for the mine clearance organisation (NGO1) and one organisation for each team (TeamA, TeamB and TeamC), then specifying the parent organisation of each team as NGO1.
[[Image:AdminGuide_ExampleHierarchyOfOrganisations.png|center|300px200px|''Example Hierarchy of Organisations'']]
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''Example Hierarchy of Organisations''
* Education activities to represent the location of the activity
As with other {{IMSMANG}} data, Places can may be customised using CDFs and represented on the map by adding geospatial information. Place may be represented on the map as both points and polygons e.g. for a refugee camp the polygon indicates larger area around the camp where people are moving for collection food and water.
{{New_6.0 | Ammunition storage and Armoury have been added to ''Place Type''}}