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Global Leadership Network (GLN) Open Access Tool
This product shows the business benefits of sustainability by helping companies be more strategic about the CSR activities they choose to undertake and to achieve the greatest benefits of these through effective communication. The program provides tools and guidance to companies in designing integrated strategies and action plans, and helps them improve their transparency through guidance on best practice sustainability reporting, such as the Global Reporting Initiative. In particular, the program aims to promote better performance and reporting around community development, gender, labor, human rights, biodiversity, and climate change and more effective harnessing of the potential of the SRI market to reward companies who do so successfully.
Gender Responsive Social Analysis: A Guidance Note
The guidance note on Gender-Responsive Social Analysis was developed, in collaboration with the Gender and Development Department of the World Bank, with several audiences in mind. It is addressed primarily to social scientists within and outside the Bank who are expected to assist our clients—Bank task managers and project authorities in borrowing countries—in integrating gender and social dimensions into Bank-financed operations. The guidance note will also support country managers and sector managers in ensuring that their task teams consider gender and social development dimensions adequately in the design and implementation of Bank-supported operations. Finally, the note is expected to be of use to governments, civil society and other stakeholders in considering how best to integrate attention to social issues in their development efforts.Community and Small Scale Mining (CASM) Annual Conference: Gender Session Report
Creating Empowered Communities: Gender and Sustainable Livelihoods in a Coal Mining Region in Indonesia
This action research project investigates how the empowerment of women within a mine-affected community can contribute to the development of sustainable local livelihoods. The research aims to test the hypothesis that women's empowerment is the key to wider community empowerment and the creation of sustainable livelihoods in mine-affected communities. The results of the research will contribute to the formulation of better strategies or models of good practice for the management of 'community affairs' by mining companies operating in Indonesia and other developing countries of the Asia Pacific region.
Education-Gender Disaggregated Data
This module offers multi-level education data differentiated by gender. It covers primary, secondary and tertiary levels of education and an overall literacy of the population. It also provides educational access trends for individual countries and comparative graphs for countries within the same income group.
Extractive Industries and Women: Brief
The benefits and risks of extractive industries are often measured broadly at the community level, but fail to distinguish the impact on men and women. Evidence suggests that a gender bias exists in the distribution of risks and benefits in EI projects. The risks fall more heavily on women, while men tend to accrue more of the benefits. The development effectiveness and sustainability of EI projects could increase significantly by taking into account how gender bias issues affect the sector and how EI activities can benefit men and women more equally.Gender and Energy for Sustainable Development: A Toolkit and Resource Guide
This toolkit and resource guide has been produced jointly by the Sustainable Energy Programme of the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) and ENERGIA, the International Network on Gender and Sustainable Energy. It is designed to help planners and practitioners integrate gender and energy considerations into development programmes, including those focusing on energy improvements as well as other types of development programmes.
Guidelines for the Implementation of Gender Policies and Strategies
Gender awareness development is increasingly recognized as contributing to corporate competitiveness through the attention to the three pillars of sustainability (economic, social and environment) and increasingly important for a company’s ability to compete in the global economy. This guideline provides a framework for integrating gender analysis into the Latin America and Caribbean oil and gas industry as well as identifying strategic entry points and opportunities for fostering gender equity. The guideline identifies key steps for the integration of gender analysis and sensitivity in the corporate context as well as in the external environment, be it through partner companies, community stakeholders and/or special interest groups. In keeping with the definition and analysis of gender awareness, the guideline provides a road map for the implementation of gender policy and strategy. The road map is directional; beginning from an input’s base and progressing along a continuum of activities, outputs, outcomes and impacts.Mainstreaming Gender into Extractive Industries Projects: Proposed Guidelines
The benefits and risks of extractive industries (EI) are often measured broadly at the community level, but fail to distinguish the impact on men and women. Evidence suggests that a gender bias exists in the distribution of risks and benefits in EI projects: benefits accrue to men in the form of employment and income, while the costs, such as family/social disruption, and environmental degradation, fall most heavily on women. Simply put, women often do not benefit sufficiently from the economic opportunities that oil, gas, and mining operations can provide to communities.
This document offers guidelines for mainstreaming gender into extractives industries projects and is accompanied by a presentation of the guide.
Gender Bias in Extractive Industries – Improving the Impact of Oil, Gas and Mining (OGM) Projects on Women
Gender Bias in Extractive Industries Improving the Impact of Oil, Gas and Mining (OGM) Projects on Women Many oil, gas and OGM companies are actively involved in working with communities to obtain or improve their social license to operate .This is especially true in Peru where the relationship between companies and communities has not always gone well in recent years.The traditional approach to engaging with communities has typically been to engage with community leaders who, while they may be freely elected or selected by the community, are invariably men so that women have little role in discussions or negotiations.
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Global Leadership Network (GLN) Open Access Tool
This product shows the business benefits of sustainability by helping companies be more strategic about the CSR activities they choose to undertake and to achieve the greatest benefits of these through effective communication. The program provides tools and guidance to companies in designing integrated strategies and action plans, and helps them improve their transparency through guidance on best practice sustainability reporting, such as the Global Reporting Initiative. In particular, the program aims to promote better performance and reporting around community development, gender, labor, human rights, biodiversity, and climate change and more effective harnessing of the potential of the SRI market to reward companies who do so successfully.
Integrating Gender Equity in Extractive Industries Projects
The purpose of this presentation is to undertake an assessment of the Women in Mining (WIM) work to determine how well it fits with other gender work in the East Asia Region and, based on the achievements of the WIM work in Papua New Guinea, to provide input to the Oil, Gas, Mining and Chemicals Department (COCPO) team in preparing a guidance note on gender and the extractive industries.
Extractive Industries and Women: Brief
The benefits and risks of extractive industries are often measured broadly at the community level, but fail to distinguish the impact on men and women. Evidence suggests that a gender bias exists in the distribution of risks and benefits in EI projects. The risks fall more heavily on women, while men tend to accrue more of the benefits. The development effectiveness and sustainability of EI projects could increase significantly by taking into account how gender bias issues affect the sector and how EI activities can benefit men and women more equally.Guidelines for the Implementation of Gender Policies and Strategies
Gender awareness development is increasingly recognized as contributing to corporate competitiveness through the attention to the three pillars of sustainability (economic, social and environment) and increasingly important for a company’s ability to compete in the global economy. This guideline provides a framework for integrating gender analysis into the Latin America and Caribbean oil and gas industry as well as identifying strategic entry points and opportunities for fostering gender equity. The guideline identifies key steps for the integration of gender analysis and sensitivity in the corporate context as well as in the external environment, be it through partner companies, community stakeholders and/or special interest groups. In keeping with the definition and analysis of gender awareness, the guideline provides a road map for the implementation of gender policy and strategy. The road map is directional; beginning from an input’s base and progressing along a continuum of activities, outputs, outcomes and impacts.Community and Small Scale Mining (CASM) Annual Conference: Gender Session Report
Sharing Experiences: Enhancing the Benefits to Communities from Extractive Industry Projects Workshop
The objective of the workshop was to share experiences, training, and raise awareness of the community development work that is taking place. The focus was on sharing practical examples of helping communities benefit from extractive industry, highlighting the diversity of community development activities (supply chain, social, environmental issues), and discussing successes and lessons.
Sharing Experience: Monitoring and Evaluation for Community Development Projects tied to Extractive Industries Workshop
Diverse stakeholders -- companies, communities and governments -- share a common goal of measuring and reporting the impact of extractive industry projects on local community development. While various groups are actively involved in monitoring and evaluating oil, gas and mining projects and their related community development investments, there seems to be no clear consensus on how to go about this complex process. This event will provide an opportunity to explore innovative ideas as well as practical assessment approaches. Participants are invited to bring experiences and tools to share. Participation in teams comprised of corporate, civil society and/or government counterparts is highly recommended. While the focus is on extractive industries, there is ample scope for cross-fertilization with other sectoral projects/programs.
