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.
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 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.
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.
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.
GDEI Publications
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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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 ...
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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.
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Women in Humanitarian Mine Action: A Case Study of Columbia
This handout presents findings on how the participation of women in Colombian mine action programmes enhances the transformative agency within their families and communities.
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GDEI Team
Arianna Calza Bini
Head of Inclusive Risk Reduction
Abigail Jones
Programme Manager, Gender, Diversity Equality & Inclusion
Matthieu Laruelle
Programme Manager, Explosive Ordnance Risk Education
Dominic Wolsey
Advisor, Gender, Diversity Equality & Inclusion
Inès Bourqui
Programme Officer, Gender, Diversity Equality & Inclusion
Abdul Hamid Ibrahimi
Advisor, Explosive Ordnance Risk Education
Céline Cheng
Advisor, Explosive Ordnance Risk Education