Member States have requested the Secretary-General to ensure that all United Nations programmes pursue the strategies of gender mainstreaming and gender balance. Gender mainstreaming is "the process of assessing the implications for women and men of any planned action". [1] It focuses attention on ensuring that the concerns and experiences of individuals of both sexes are taken into consideration in the design, implementation, monitoring and evaluation of programmes.
The United Nations Inter-Agency Mine Action Strategy: 2006-2010 explicitly makes reference to the ensurance of gender mainstreaming in mine action.
Guiding Principle on Gender Mainstreaming in UN Mine Action Strategy
"UN mine action work plans will address the impact of mine action on men, women, boys and girls, and seek to involve them to the extent possible in the planning and implementation of mine action initiatives." (UN Inter-Agency Mine Action Strategy: 2006-2010)
The Guidelines are now available and presented as a working document. Their distribution and use will be monitored by the Steering Committee for a period of one year, and feedback-guided revisions will be incorporated into an updated version next year.
Links:
Gender and Mine Action Portal - Swiss Campaign to Ban Landmines
Gender and Mine Action: A Collection of Documents from Canada
Click here to download the Gender Guidelines in English, French, Spanish, Russian or Arabic
Click here to view the Literature Review
Click here to download the Gender and UN Peacekeeping brochure
Click here to view the DPKO Gender Resource Package
Click here to go to the United Nations Inter-Agency Network on Women and Gender Equality - Women Watch
http://www.womenwarpeace.org
S/2006/770 Report of the Secretary-General on women, peace and security
S/2005/636 Report of the Secretary-General on women and peace
DPKO Under-Secretary General Policy Statement on Gender Mainstreaming
Windhoek Declaration
S/RES/1325 (2000) Security Council resolution 1325 (2000) on Women, Peace and Security
Gender Checklist For Peace Operations
Final report - AAP 26-01-06.doc
www.un.org/womenwatch/osagi/fpdocumentation.htm