Strengthening a sustainable national capacity for gender and diversity mainstreaming in mine action

SUMMARY: Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) 16, “Peace, justice and strong institutions,” promotes building effective, accountable institutions to ensure peaceful and inclusive societies for all. This incorporates strengthening relevant national institutions, including through international cooperation and capacity-building initiatives. For the purpose of this article, capacity development is defined as a process to improve performance at the individual, organizational, and broader system levels. When an organization carries out a project, it is also important to consider the implications of each planned action on women, girls, boys, and men of different ethnicities, religions, languages, disabilities, education levels, and other diversity factors. Gender and diversity mainstreaming means considering all relevant factors in every project activity as a way to make sure that the concerns, needs, priorities, and experiences of all project beneficiaries are included in the project’s design, implementation, monitoring, and evaluation.