Claim: Gender mainstreaming in mine action, which has been pushed in the United Nations development community,started way back the mid 1970s when women advancement instruments in national bureaucracies began and later on the concept of gender mainstreaming appeared in the mid 1980s.
Evidence: Since 2006 the United Nations Mine Action Service (UNMAS) has been conducting workshops on gender mainstreaming in mine action both in the field and in Geneva at the presence of representatives of mine action organisation, focused on explaining what gender mainstreaming is and helping countries implementing the UN guidelines. While the concept of gender mainstreaming appeared in the mid-1980s, it was formalised in the early 1990s. Women's advancement instruments in national bureaucracies started in the mid-1970s. The UN Gender Guidelines for Mine Action Programmes explain how to integrate gender into four of the five pillars of mine action.