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Explosive ordnance represents a key barrier to development in numerous countries worldwide, affecting the lives of communities long after the conflict is over. Due to their gender-specific mobility patterns, roles and responsibilities, women, girls, boys and men are impacted differently by explosive ordnance.

There is growing awareness within the mine action sector that taking a gender and diversity sensitive and responsive perspective will make mine action more inclusive and effective. However, more work needs to be done to ensure that gender and diversity are mainstreamed in all aspects of mine action programmes and beyond, and that women and marginalised groups participate meaningfully in and benefit from the sector.

 

Under the 2019-2022 GICHD Strategy, gender equality, inclusion and empowerment of women and girls is one of the four strategic objectives of the Centre. The Gender and Mine Action Programme (GMAP), a new thematic division of the GICHD, works to ensure that all knowledge generated and disseminated by the GICHD, as well as the advice and technical assistance provided to partners, take gender and diversity into account systematically.

In close cooperation with partners and key stakeholders, GICHD provides specialized in-country and remote support, advice, technical assistance, capacity development, and research to ensure that risks from explosive ordnance are reduced in a gender and diversity sensitive and responsive manner and that the potential of mine action to be inclusive, advance gender equality and enable women to become empowered agents of change is realised.

GDEI Working Group

The purpose of the Gender and Diversity Working Group is to support the mainstreaming of gender and diversity provisions within the Anti-Personnel Mine Ban Convention (APMBC) and the Convention on Cluster Munitions (CCM), as well as the wider disarmament and mine action sector.  

GDEI Working Group

GDEI Donor Resources

The resources featured here showcase good practices and lessons learned, as well as demonstrate the efficiency and effectiveness of funding activities and projects where Gender and diversity are mainstreamed, and equality and inclusion promoted in explosive ordnance risk reduction.

Donor Resources

GDEI Annual Report

The 2021 Gender Equality and Inclusion Action Plan (GDAP)  included targets and related indicators to track the Centre’s progress both internally and in its external facing activities. The GICHD is constantly striving towards greater gender equality and inclusion. Check out the gender and diversity achievements of GICHD’s staff members and divisions in 2021.

Annual Report

Gender and Mine Action Programme (GMAP)

Before its integration into the GICHD in March 2019, the Gender and Mine Action Programme (GMAP) was an independent organisation for more than 12 years. The aim of GMAP was to increase the effectiveness of mine action activities through the inclusion of a gender and diversity perspective in policy making, programming and implementation.

GMAP publications and resources

GDEI Publications

English

Inclusive Data Management in the Mine Action Sector

At the GICHD, we are challenging how data practices in the mine action sector address gender, diversity, and equality, through a comprehensive exploration of interpretations of gender, diversity, and the do no harm principle...

07/03/2024
Inclusive Data Management in the Mine Action Sector
  • Available in English
  • GICHD
English

Gender and Diversity in the Convention on Cluster Munitions (CCM)

Cluster munition remnants continue to harm people and communities around the world. Though they are indiscriminate weapons, their impact and consequences are different based on a person’s gender identity and expression, and on how...

24/08/2022
Gender and Diversity in the Convention on Cluster Munitions (CCM)
  • Available in English
  • -
English

GICHD Annual Report 2021

In 2021, the GICHD continued providing its services to national and international partners in 43 countries and territories, with the ultimate goal of reducing risk from explosive ordnance and making communities safe.Faced with the...

17/06/2022
GICHD Annual Report 2021
  • Available in English
  • GICHD
English

The GICHD Gender Equality and Inclusion Annual Report 2020

Over the last several years, the GICHD has taken continual steps to promote gender equality and inclusion, both internally and in its external work. Read more about our progress in the GICHD Gender Equality & Inclusion Annual...

16/07/2021
The GICHD Gender Equality and Inclusion Annual Report 2020
  • Available in English
  • GICHD
English

The Socioeconomic Impact of Employing Female Deminers in Sri Lanka

This report outlines the key findings of the study looking at the socioeconomic impact of employing female deminers in Sri Lanka. 10 years after the first clearance operations in Sri Lanka, hundreds of Sri Lankan women and men are...

13/07/2020
The Socioeconomic Impact of Employing Female Deminers in Sri Lanka
  • Available in English
  • GICHD

Gender and Diversity Annual Report 2019

The Gender & Diversity Annual Report highlights the efforts made towards more gender and diversity inclusive practices at the GICHD. In  2018,  the  GICHD  took  the  decision  to  elevate  the  topics  of  gender  and  diversity ...

29/06/2020
Gender and Diversity Annual Report 2019
  • Available in
  • GICHD
English
GMAP Annual Report 2018
  • Available in English
English
GMAP Annual Report 2017
  • Available in English
English
GMAP Annual Report 2016
  • Available in English
English

Women in Humanitarian Mine Action - A Case Study of Lebanon

This handout presents findings on how the participation of women mine action programmes in Lebanon enhances the transformative agency within their families and communities.

01/06/2016
Women in Humanitarian Mine Action - A Case Study of Lebanon
  • Available in English

GDEI Team

Abigail Jones

Abigail Jones

Programme Manager, Gender, Diversity Equality & Inclusion
Dominic Wolsey

Dominic Wolsey

Advisor, Gender, Diversity Equality & Inclusion
Maysa Hajjaj

Maysa Hajjaj

Advisor, Gender, Diversity Equality & Inclusion
Inès Bourqui

Inès Bourqui

Programme Officer, Gender, Diversity Equality & Inclusion