Claim: Gender mainstreaming in mine action 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: Women's advancement instruments in national bureaucracies started in the mid-1970s. While the concept of gender mainstreaming appeared in the mid-1980s, it was formalised in the early 1990s.