Women’s Empowerment, Artisanal and Small-Scale Mining in “Conflict Commodities”

Women’s Empowerment, Artisanal and Small-Scale Mining in “Conflict Commodities” 

Gorette Arinaitwe poses for a portrait at the open cast gold mine where she works, at a site in central Uganda.

Overview

International Development Research Centre and GrOW

This work was carried out with financial support under the Growth and Economic Opportunities for Women (GrOW) initiative. GrOW is a multi-funder partnership with the UK Government’s Department for International Development, the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation, and the International Development Research Centre, Canada.

• Gender and ASM: Implications for Formalization (Buss et al) (Forthcoming paper, November 2019)

GrOW Working Paper series (GWP-2017-02)

• Gender and artisanal and small-scale mining in Central and East Africa – Barriers and Benefits

GrOW Policy Brief (2017)

• Empowering women in artisanal and small-scale mining in Central and East Africa
• Recommandations pour relever les défis et accroître les occasions d’autonomisation

Methodological reports

• Report on Kampala Methodology Workshop (29 June – 3 July, 2015)
• Methodological Notes from the Kampala Workshop (29 June – 3 July 2015)
• Notes from The Field: Use of mixed methods research on Women’s Livelihoods in Artisanal Mining in Uganda, DRC and Rwanda (December 2017)

Country Specific Reports

Interviews

Together with Canada’s Carleton University and Uganda’s Development Research and Social Policy Analysis Centre, IMPACT is exploring women’s livelihoods in the artisanal mining of 3Ts (tin, tantalum, tungsten) and gold within the Democratic Republic of Congo, Rwanda, and Uganda. Our collective goal is to improve opportunities for women in the mining sector

Neoliberalism, Militarization and Shifting Geopolitics in Africa

Le Sud- Kivu- Une Femme Twangeuse et Négociante

Vidéos réalisées par le partenaire du projet IMPACT (2017)

Videos done by project partner IMPACT (2017)

Reflections on “Uncovering women’s experiences in artisanal and small-scale mining in Central and East Africa” project: Researchers and a Gender Focal Point (Kampala, July, 2015) / Réflexion sur le projet “Les femmes et l’exploitation minière artisanale et à petite échelle en Afrique centrale et en Afrique de l’Est ” : des chercheurs et un point focal genre  (Kampala, juillet 2015)

Interview with Yvette Djumani Asha, Gender Focal Point from Some mining site, DRC

Entrevue avec Matthieu Mamiki Ke’Bongo Bongo d’ARED, DRC

Entrevue avec Zacharie Bulakali de RIO, République démocratique de Congo

Interview with Joy Zawedde of the Development Research and Social Policy Analysis Centre (DRASPAC)

Interview with Aline Nkundibiza of WIAMO, Rwanda

General

Blog Posts

Posts by Sarah Katz-Lavigne (PhD candidate, NPSIA, Carleton)**.

• Reflection on the Kampala Workshop (June 29-July 4, 2015)
• Thoughts on Trauma (August 2015)
• Gender in Artisanal Mining – A Complicated Picture
  

**Thanks to the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Insight grant for supporting the research of Sarah Katz-Lavigne as part of the Statebuilding and Women’s livelihoods in Artisanal and Small-Scale Mining research project