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Why having a gender sensitive mine action programming cycle?

Landmines hinder growth and harm development of affected communities. So do gender inequalities. Gender is a cross cutting issue in mine action programming: women, girls, boys and men are affected differently by landmines and best assisted in different ways. Failure to address gender issues in mine action can damage the effectiveness and sustainability of mine action projects and programmes, and unintentionally sustain or exacerbate existing disparities. Gender impacts the likelihood of becoming a victim of landmines, accessing medical care, reintegrating into society after being injured, and accessing mine risk education. It is therefore vital to gender sensitise the mine action programming cycle, taking gender differences and inequalities into account in the problem identification, objectives, strategies, resource allocation, implementation and evaluation phases.

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Additional resources

  • BAD HONNEF FRAMEWORK, (1999). Guidelines for Development Oriented Mine Action Programs. Berlin, Germany: German Initiative to Ban Landmines 
  • VICTOR, J. ESTEY, S., AND BURNS KNIERIM, H. Guidelines for the Socio-economic Reintegration of Landmine Survivors, World Rehabilitation Fund, and the United Nations Development Programme 
  • UNITED NATIONS (2010). Gender Guidelines for Mine Action Programmes