[2] The different positions of men and women have an influence on their exposure to landmines and explosive remnants of war (ERW), their ability to access medical and psychological services once they have been injured by mines, their chances of long term reintegration in society, and the likelihood of them to be included in risk education.
[10] This guide is a manual destined to be used by the UN mine action field-based personnel and headquarters' staff and other actors involved in the sector.
[13] The Maputo Action Plan 2014-2019 (2014)[14] was adopted during the Third Review Conference of the States Parties to the Convention on the Prohibition of the use, stockpiling, production and transfer of anti-personnel mines and on their destruction (APMBC 1997).
In its introduction, it stresses that States Parties will implement the Maputo Action Plan in a cooperative, inclusive, age-appropriate and gender-sensitive manner.
[22] The Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency (SIDA) in 2013 reviewed the work of the Danish Demining Group (DDG) in Afghanistan, assessing positively the progress made in gender mainstreaming, in terms of the collection of disaggregated qualitative and quantitative data, in spite of some cultural limitations.
In order to share the strategy, the Mine Action Coordination Centre of Afghanistan (MACCA) organised two gender mainstreaming workshops at the end of 2014 attended by 17 partner organisations[24] in the context of a grant provided by the Geneva International Centre for Humanitarian Demining (GICHD)[25] The Mine Advisory Group (MAG) – Lao PDR, through a funding from MAG and Irish Aid, conducted an assessment as part of gender mainstreaming on the priority actions to be carried out in integrating gender in mine action.
[28][29] The UN Gender Guidelines state that men, women, boys and girls differ in their exposure to and knowledge of the mine contamination.
Its concrete recommendations are: The UN Gender Guidelines say that men, women, boys and girls differ in their behaviours and their response to mine-risk education.
Before its integration in the GICHD in March 2019, GMAP worked as an independent organization for more than 12 years, aiming to promote gender mainstreaming in mine action by trying to make mine action include the needs, priorities, and knowledge of women, girls, boys, men, and members of marginalized groups in communities at risk of landmines or other UXO.
She argues it can only be done by assessing all the processes and procedures in a project cycle which are adapted to the needs of women, girls, boy and men in a community.
Gender and diversity mainstreaming includes other factors in the demographics of a community that may hinder or help the long term impact of mine action.