Gender-Entrepreneurship-Markets CommDev Workshop 19 June 2006 Extractive Industries and the Gender Bias

Why the extractive industries ?  29% of IFC’s investment portfolio in Africa. Key source of growth and FDI in Africa.  Women represent 52% of Africa’s population: growth and development strategy in all countries should therefore position them as core contributors and participants.  However, traditional gender bias in mining largely excludes women from consultative processes, resettlement and compensation processes, as well as recruitment and enterprise opportunities.  Confines women to artisanal and survivalist mining.  Yet research has demonstrated that women suffer the greatest impact in terms of environmental and health disturbance, loss of livelihoods and social instability where mining operations occur.  GEM’s approach = to seek opportunity in the industry to build women’s formal participation, entrepreneurship and skills development.  IFC’s sustainability offering triple postive impact on the client, household poverty reduction and the economy.

Integrated GEM model for the mining sector Mining Operation Mining operation Country’s socio- economic priorities Community consultations Supply-chain linkages and community enterprise Technical assistance & capacity building programmes Social and environmental management Recruitment of women into operations

GEM proposed interventions Newmont Gold Ghana Limited  Research in Ghana highlights negative impact of gold mining on rural communities, particularly women.  SME Linkage programme with SME Department - SME mapping to identify women’s enterprises - Target sufficient number for inclusion in IFC Linkage programme - Provide gender differentiated business training as necessary for client and for SMEs  Gender and recruitment strategy - Client to identify targets and key occupational areas - GEM to support strategy by outlining key issues for success/best practice - Support for a multiyear strategy that takes in recruitment, testing and acquisition of skills, training, retainment, gender sensitisation, creation of a friendly environment, participative fora etc. - Significant positive impact on local community expected

GEM proposed interventions cont Lonmin PLC South Africa  South African policy environment – promotes Black Economic Empowerment, transformation and skills development.  Adherence to South African Mining Charter – 10% women’s participation across the board  Women in South Africa = largest group excluded from formal employment, largest number of self employed and lowest earnings  GEM proposed interventions with Lonmin are to focus on staffing, IFC SME linkage programme and community enterprise development programmes  Assess current staffing situation (3.3%) and provide support in view of 10%  Bring in local and international best practice, use of specialist expertise in employment equity and diversity management.

Making it happen  Work with industry department to sensitise and ascertain potential projects to be involved in.  Involvement in pitches to clients as part of overall value add from IFC.  Research of current best practice and lessons learnt  Key partners for GEM include CES, PEP Africa, Global Linkages Unit, SME-EDI, World Bank, Commdev.  Funding model: cost-sharing with client, partner department, GEM and donor funds

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