Gender, Community Development and EI

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Gender, Community Development and EI

• Most of the social risks from EI domestic
  violence, family disintegration, alcohol,
  pollution, increased workload, typically impact
  women much more than men
• Yet it is a widely established fact that women
  play a strong role in community development yet
  little focus given by mining companies to
  increase the benefits for women.

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Current Context

• 10/10 mining companies surveyed in Peru knew at
  least some of the womens risks and issues but
  none monitor them and few take action
• Current consultation processes and projects
  deepen the mans role in the public space and the
  womens roles in the private space.
• When the benefits mainly accrue to one half of
  the population (the men) and the risks to the
  other half of the population (the women) what
  happens if you then only ask the men how it is
  all going?

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The Need

• Development projects or activities that benefit
  women are not necessarily easy to do
• Womens networks and organisations may need
  considerable strengthening
• Little interface between the best community
  development practices on gender and the mining
  worlds development practice

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Recommendations

• Make the Case The sector needs to deepen its own
  analysis and research into the impact of EI on
  women
• Make stronger link between community experts and
  the mining sector this will both make the case
  for WHY to work with women and HOW to work with
  women.
• Link with womens organisations and gender
  experts in NGOs and use their tools and
  approaches for cultural appropriateness
• Set specific indicators and disaggregate baseline
  studies by gender to monitor impact on women and
  avoid gender-blindness