Title: Improving the Development Outcomes of Extractive Industries: A guide to improving impacts on women in poverty and their families
1Improving the Development Outcomes of Extractive
IndustriesA guide to improving impacts on
women in poverty and their families
- Bernie Ward
- Consultant, Lima, Peru
- Bernie.Ward_at_gmail.com
- Tel (511) 495 4858 Cel (511) 9990
71325
2Gender Equality in communities impacted by project
Using the Extractive Industries Guide for
Improving Practice
Using all the best practices outlined during this
event
If no action is taken
Before the project starts
EXCELLENT
GOOD ENOUGH
No Political Will in company or community or
partners
Gender is set as a priority goal by either the
company, community or partners and additional
funds are set aside for this goal.
Many competing priorities gender equality is
not in the top 5, but is in top 10.
3Who is this guide for?
- Extractive Industry companies and the
governments, donors, investors and civil society
who oversee or partner their activities - Stronger on mining than oil and gas
- This version Peru
- Gender experts as a tool to support them persuade
companies to take those initial steps.
4Actions to improve the impact on women
- Three Elements to the Guide
- Element 1 Understand the situation and
perspectives of women - Element 2 Design and implement your companys
operations in a gender-sensitive way - Element 3 Appoint a Gender Champion and a
suitably qualified team
5Element 1 Understand the situation and
perspectives of women
- What are the issues that need to be understood
better? - Private public domain division of labour,
decision-making, income, role, organisations,
rights and trends. - Specific risks, opportunities and sensitive
issues - Data-gathering Consultations
- Making the Invisible Visible disaggregation of
data, representative samples, sensitive issues - Gender-sensitive Techniques surveys, interviews,
workshops, participative Analysis of the data
collected by men and women - What you count, counts indicators and targets
6Element 2 Design and implement the companys
operations in a gender-sensitive way
- How to design community programs that are
gender-sensitive - Women and Land Compensation
- Women and Employment
7Element 3 Appoint a Gender Champion and a
suitably qualified team
- Training
- Links to womens organisations
- Gender-specific indicators and targets
- Advise on tools processes
- Internal communications on progress
- Convening power to promote womens interests.
8- Bernie Ward
- Consultant
- Lima, Peru
- Bernie.Ward_at_gmail.com
- Tel (511) 495 4858
- Cel (511) 9990 71325