Sustainable Development Challenge Fund: How did my project achieve the goals set out by the Challenge Fund? Integrating Gender Equity in Extractive Industries Projects

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Sustainable Development Challenge Fund How did
my project achieve the goals set out by the
Challenge Fund? Integrating Gender Equity in
Extractive Industries Projects

• Final Review
• July 12, 2007
• Adriana Eftimie
• Gillian Brown
• John Strongman
• Angela Khaminwa

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The Challenge Fund ActivityAssessment of PNG
Women in Mining (WIM)

• Main objectives East Asia Regional Gender
  Coordinator to undertake an assessment of the WIM
  work to see how well it fits with other gender
  work in the East Asia Region and, based on the
  achievements of the WIM work in PNG, to provide
  her inputs to the COCPO team in preparing a
  guidance note on gender and the extractive
  industries for possible use in the Region/SDN
  Network.
• Achievements of the WIM activities
• WIM activities built networks of key women at
  national level and linked them to womens groups
  at local level
• WIM activities helped build capacity of local
  womens associations, and build relationships
  with local leaders and local governments
• WIM activities helped private sector to target
  their available staff and financial resources
  more effectively
• The WIM Action Plan 2007 2010 provides a good
  basis for targeting of additional public, donor,
  and private sector resources to improve economic
  and social outcomes for women and families in
  mining areas.

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The Challenge Fund Activity Assessment of PNG
Women in Mining (WIM)

• Conclusions A WIM initiative is
• Good for Women by catalyzing their
  participation in decision-making, so that their
  needs and priorities can be identified and
  addressed
• Good for Business by increasing the
  effectiveness and equitability of investments in
  compensation and community development
  activities, helping to mitigate negative impacts,
  and improving sustainability of positive impacts.
  
• Good for Development by providing a good basis
  for improved participation in planning and better
  local governance, which can be built on for
  post-mine sustainable development, and for
  broader and more equitable long term sharing of
  local and national revenues from mineral
  resources.

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3. Incubation of new ideas for greater synergies

• Lessons learnt from the PNG WIM could be applied
  in other infrastructure sectors not only oil and
  gas and logging but also power generation,
  transport, water supply
• This could be done by
• (i) preparing an analysis of the positive and
  negative impacts of the project on women and
• (ii) engaging with local womens groups to build
  their capacity to engage with government and
  investors to improve the gender impacts of
  proposed projects and investments

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4. Deepening cross-sectoral linkages

• Areas of potential cross-sectoral collaborations
  
• CDD partnership between COCPO and SDV/RD
• Local governance partnership between COCPO and
  SDV/PR
• Management of revenues from mineral resources
  Governance issues partnership between COCPO and
  PRM
• Gender equality policies partnership between
  COCPO, SDV and PRMGE

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5. Encouraging integration across our global
programs and partnerships

• Energy Sector Management Assistance Program
  (ESMAP) has funded early COCPO work on gender
  which formed the basis of further work in PNG and
  other countries.
• Gender Action Plan (GAP) Making markets work for
  women and helping women access markets
• Communities and Small-scale Mining (CASM) equal
  access to development opportunities for women
  working in artisanal and small scale mining
• Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative
  (EITI) ensuring that womens groups are among
  the civil society stakeholder groups.

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6. What are the lessons learnt, best practices
and areas for improved collaboration?

• Lessons learnt
• Formalize cross-sectoral relationships to ensure
  consistent collaboration
• Foster discussion opportunities to enhance
  knowledge-sharing and the understanding of
  different, yet complementary, perspectives
• Pool resources to be more cost-efficient
• Best practice
• Early collaboration has institutionalized
  linkages through the project cycle. This ensures
  that development challenges are addressed
  comprehensively, taking into account different
  dimensions of economic growth and poverty
  reduction.

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7. What are the areas for improved collaboration
specific opportunities in PNG?

• Undertake broader gender initiatives in PNG based
  on the WIM work including possibilities for
  mainstreaming gender with ongoing CDD work
  including CDD stocktaking ESW with cross support
  from COCPO
• Provide further support and capacity building in
  the new PNG Mining TA project including
  cross-support from Social Development for
• National Womens networks which are still fragile
• Local womens capacity which is still weak
• Establishing a more formal institutional home for
  long term support