As stated in the IASC Gender Handbook in Humanitarian Action, “gender equality is not a sector on its own. It is integral to every issue and area of work. It is not a stand-alone matter.” [1] In that sense, everyone is responsible for addressing gender as a cross cutting issue in mine action. At the same time, it should not be assumed that anyone can do a gender analysis. Gender remains a technical area, requiring professional assistance from qualified gender specialists.

The GMAP offers free of charge telephone and email based gender expertise assistance to organisations. The programme assists a wide range of mine action stakeholders to analyse their work through a gender lens, assessing how projects are implemented, making sure that the needs of women, girls, boys and men are highlighted and met. 

This assistance can be related to reviewing documents, providing comments on project proposals, undertaking organisational reviews and informing various media about the issue offering data, statistics and other information.

• GMAP co-organised a side event on "What is Gender-Sensitive Mine Action" together with UNMAT and the ICBL at the Cartagena Summit on a Mine-Free World, in Colombia in 2009;
• GMAP organised workshops with Colombian women's organisations on gender and mine action in Bogota and Cartagena before the Cartagena Summit;
• GMAP was asked by the IMAS Review Board to carry out a gender review of all the IMAS in Dec. 2008-Feb. 2009;
• UNMAS asked GMAP to co-chair a segment on gender and mine action at the National Mine Action Directors Meeting in Geneva in March 2009;
• GICHD invited GMAP to chair a section on gender and mine action, in the workshop “Tackling Poverty in Conflict-Affected Countries: Linking Development, Security and the Remnants of Conflict”, held in November 2008 in Hue, Vietnam;
• GICHD consulted GMAP to provide technical assistance for a thorough gender review of the organisation. GMAP reviewed internal structures (gender balanced staffing, gender sensitive human resource policies etc) as well as external processes (gender sensitised operations, information etc); and
• GMAP was invited by the United Nations Mine Action Team (UNMAT) to present the outcomes of GMAP 's study, and to facilitate a session in the annual Gender Equality in Mine Action workshop in Brindisi, Italy, in September 2008;
• In March 2008, GMAP was invited to participate in a studio interview on female deminers at TV-channel Al Jazeera in London;
• In June 2008, GMAP was asked to make an update of the issue of gender and mine action in the plenary of the Meeting of the Standing Committees in Geneva.