Transcript Current Practice

Common Practice in Peru
• Baseline surveys with heads of family or of
institutions – very few women
• Workshops with community assemblies called by
local authorities – women little voice
• Some companies do workshops with women’s
organisations – very positive
• Few special techniques used in mixed workshops
to bring in the quieter (women’s) voices
• No consultation data disaggregated by gender
• No data gathered or research undertaken into the
impact of extractive industries on women
Some Good Practice in Peru
• Pilots recently started to track the percentage of
interviews with women
• Use of participatory workshops using pictures,
social maps, group work etc
• Use of pre-workshop support to women to prepare
them and build their capabilities and development
awareness
• Pilots to disaggregate the consultation data by
gender
• Some action taken on specific social issues of
priority to women - though not backed up by
baseline studies.
The need
• 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
about their desires and priorities?
• Making the invisible visible: alcohol, family
violence, increased work in the home, etc
• What you Count Counts
Recommendation for: Gender
Guidelines and training modules
• Build into the baseline assessment those specific issues
relating to the impact of mining on women
• How to do interviews or focus groups so as to get a
good and safe response from women
• The need to disaggregate all data in baseline studies by
gender
• The acid test is whether women consider that their
overall quality of life has improved or worsened due to
the operation – and how do you get views that can be
considered representative on this?