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Case Study: The Lonmin-IFC Women in Mining Program
Given that mining is historically a male-dominated sector, companies and their systems, staff and workers are often not ready to seamlessly absorb women into the workplace. Significant cultural and systems changes are being made by the Lonmin-IFC program in the Preparation, Recruitment, Development and Retention of women.
Women in Mining: A Guide to Integrating Women into the Workforce
This manual provides a conceptual framework and a step-by-step guide to integrating women into the mining sector, as well as into other extractive and heavy industries. Successful integration of women ensures greater benefits for local communities and creates a more just and equitable society. The integration of women into these historically male-dominated industries is not easy, but when it is done well, it can have a transformative effect.
Why Gender Matters: A resource guide for integrating gender considerations into Communities work at Rio Tinto
The idea for this guide originated from a specific site based request within Rio Tinto for information on incorporating gender considerations into a social baseline study. Advice was also sought regarding the development of gender appropriate programmes, located both within the business and the local community.
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.
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Girl Effect
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IFC Launches New Publications
Please see below for recent publications launched by IFC. Please send your comments or suggesstions to abhalla@ifc.org.
Case Study: The Lonmin-IFC Women in Mining Program
Given that mining is historically a male-dominated sector, companies and their systems, staff and workers are often not ready to seamlessly absorb women into the workplace. Significant cultural and systems changes are being made by the Lonmin-IFC program in the Preparation, Recruitment, Development and Retention of women.
Women in Mining: A Guide to Integrating Women into the Workforce
This manual provides a conceptual framework and a step-by-step guide to integrating women into the mining sector, as well as into other extractive and heavy industries. Successful integration of women ensures greater benefits for local communities and creates a more just and equitable society. The integration of women into these historically male-dominated industries is not easy, but when it is done well, it can have a transformative effect.
Why Gender Matters: A resource guide for integrating gender considerations into Communities work at Rio Tinto
The idea for this guide originated from a specific site based request within Rio Tinto for information on incorporating gender considerations into a social baseline study. Advice was also sought regarding the development of gender appropriate programmes, located both within the business and the local community.
Women, communities and mining: The gender impacts of mining and the role of gender impact assessment
How to Design a “Return on Investment” Program in Factories
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.
