Gender and Extractives Network (GEENET)

Addressing the negative impacts of the extractives industry on land, environment and women’s rights

hermank256 — Tue, 07 Sep 2021 08:57:33 +0000

Discoveries of minerals in East Africa have been celebrated by governments, oil
companies and other stakeholders. As extractives activities commence in these
localities, a number of negative impacts have been registered among the communities
and more especially on women such as loss of land, environmental degradation, food
insecurity, social disruption, forced evictions, unfair compensation and domestic
violence among others. The environmental, air and associated health costs of the fossil
fuels energy are significant. Mines
have produced emissions, dust and polluted local water supplies, air and soil, whilst
refineries produce pollution when they process oil into a refined product. Women who
manage natural resources and take care of their families and communities are the ones
who bear most of these externalized impacts. GEENET is working with key
stakeholders in extractives like local governments, central government or state
institutions such as parliaments, ministries of environment and minerals, and authorities,
the private sector and civil society organizations to ensure prioritization of women’s
rights and address issues facing women in extractives by ensuring that the laws already
in place are implemented and stakeholders that do not follow the laws are held
accountable. In this way, given their influence and support, GEENET can work to
address the negative impacts of extractives on women such as loss of land by ensuring
that there is adequate compensation and resettlement.

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Promoting Women’s Participation in the Extractive Industries Sector

hermank256 — Sun, 03 Jan 2016 15:30:10 +0000

The extractive industries remain a male-dominated industry as compared to the other industries
in Uganda. It is important to involve women in it because women have the same “right to

development” as men, so if extractive industries diminish their access to economic and social
development, this human right has been violated. Since women are also often the linchpins of
their communities, with key roles in ensuring the health, nutrition, education and security of
those around them, investing in women and assuring their participation is not only key for their
own development, but also for the socioeconomic development of their families and
communities.
Is helping guide local governments, the private sector, civil society organizations and
other stakeholders in developing policy, programmes and legislation that will do a better
job of addressing challenges facing women affected by and hoping to benefit from the
extractive industries sector.

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Promoting a more gender-inclusive extractives sector

hermank256 — Sun, 03 Jan 2016 15:28:21 +0000

If extractives resources are to benefit all citizens, both women and men need to be
included in the sector’s governance and have equal access to employment
opportunities. Yet the extractive industries are disproportionately governed and
operated by men, and sector-specific policies that take gender into account are
relatively scarce. Moreover, women and girls bear a disproportionate share of the
negative social, economic and environmental impacts of the sector. A recent analysis by
suggests that women in mineral resource-dependent communities often experience
greater wealth and rights inequality than those in communities that are not resource-
dependent. The Covid-19 pandemic has deepened gender inequality in the industry,
with movement restrictions and employment cuts affecting women who hold the majority
of informal and lower paying jobs.
Ensuring equal participation in decision making on the extractive
sector is critical to addressing inequalities and ensuring that the
sector is managed in the interest of all citizens. By recognizing
and promoting the participation of women in the extractive sector as
employees, business owners, community members and decision
makers on resource governance governments and companies can
ensure that resources are managed more equitably.

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Addressing negative impacts of extractive activities on Women

hermank256 — Sun, 03 Jan 2016 15:27:38 +0000

The social, economic and environmental impacts of the extractive industries are often
differently experienced by men and women. Women are more vulnerable to the
negative impacts of extractive activities and less likely to have influence over how they
are managed. For example, women may be excluded from community consultations
and decisions on the allocation of extractive revenues. They may have reduced access
to job opportunities.

GEENET is working to tracking female employment in the extractive sector. This is
central to understanding how the benefits of the sector are being shared. Employment
data can be used to inform strategies to encourage equal employment. Likewise,
assessing the impact of corporate social expenditure on women can help direct this
expenditure equitably. Enabling women to have access to information relating to
revenues from the sector will help them better understand how extractive operations
may affect their communities and how the benefits are being shared.

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Promoting Women’s Economic Empowerment

hermank256 — Sun, 03 Jan 2016 15:27:02 +0000

GEENET recognizes that women’s participation in the extractives is necessary for the
achievement of sustainable development. GEENET is working to ensure that extractives
industry companies are increasingly committed to integrating gender equality and
women’s economic empowerment into aspects of their operations.

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Advocating for efforts towards achieving improved gender balance in the Extractive sector.

hermank256 — Sun, 03 Jan 2016 15:26:30 +0000

GEENET conducts research on gender and the extractive industries to get answers for
the following questions
a) How is gender understood in the extractives sector and has this changed over
time?
b) What are the gendered impacts of the extractive industries?
c) Are women passive victims of the sector rather than active participants or even
resisters to industrial expansion?
d) What is the nature of extractives-associated sex work and gender-based
violence in various settings?
Based on data gathered, GEENET conducts actions that advocates for industry efforts
towards achieving improved gender balance in the sector.

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Advancing opportunities for women’s leadership in natural resource governance

hermank256 — Thu, 10 Dec 2015 13:26:53 +0000

GEENET recognizes the critical role that women can and should play in extractive
governance, and raising awareness of the many barriers that continue to stand in their
way. GEENET seeks to advance opportunities for women’s leadership in a sector where
they often gain least (for example, through employment opportunities) and bear the
greatest cost of negative social and environmental impacts. GEENET also implements
actions to explore opportunities for increasing women’s effective participation and voice
in decision making processes about whether and how extractive revenues are allocated
in local and national budgets.

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