Changes

| Information about an quality-improvement activity, such as an effort to control and monitor the clearance and/or reduction of lands land or activities

Each of the six categories of items can be divided into subcategories or types so users can collect information for each subcategory. For example, users can specify different types of lands land such as dangerous areas, confirmed hazardous areas (CHAs), minefields and battle areas and manage each kind of land differently. Using subcategories, information managers can:

IMSMA^NG provides the capability to assign items to locations and create links between items, a function that shows the relationships between items and processes and that enriches the data collected. Assignments and links are defined during the Data Entry Form approval process. An item is assigned to one location, which ties the item to the country structure and allows for reporting data by area. The same item can then be linked to as many other items as necessary. In this way, IMSMA^NG supports the idea of linking activities to landsland, victims to accidents or any item to any other item. When used with item subcategories, linking adds a powerful capacity to implement an information workflow and create rich and useful data for decision makers. To ensure the integrity of this data, system administrators must clearly specify the kinds of links to track in IMSMA^NG.

The IMSMA^NG information model is flexible enough for each programme to customise the system to support its needs. For example, programmes that do not conduct education activities do not need to complete information about education activities, and they still retain full utility of the system. Similarly, programmes that conduct victim tracking and education activities only can disregard lands land and activities without any loss of utility. This flexibility, however, requires that programmes define the relevant uses of each item.

The rationale for each relationship or link should also be documented so the meaning is understood. For example, an activity may be conducted on a land and an accident may be a result of a hazardous land or produce a victim. These relationships are used when entering data to ensure that the links between items are available for searching and reporting, like when searching for all lands land that have clearances linked to them.