Negotiating with the PNG Mining Industry for Women's Access to Resources and Voice : The Ok Tedi Mine Life Extension Negotiations for Mine Benefit Packages
In mining communities, women in particular often bear the negative consequences associated with mismanagement of extractive industries. Women need to be part of the processes and strategies aimed at transforming the negative aspects of the extracti...
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World Bank, Washington, DC
2014
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| Online Access: | http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/2013/12/19072941/negotiating-png-mining-industry-womens-access-resources-voice-ok-tedi-mine-life-extension-negotiations-mine-benefit-packages-vol-2-2-main-report http://hdl.handle.net/10986/17557 |
| Summary: | In mining communities, women in
particular often bear the negative consequences associated
with mismanagement of extractive industries. Women need to
be part of the processes and strategies aimed at
transforming the negative aspects of the extractive
industries into visible social and economic benefits in
affected communities. With the permission of senior
management of the Ok Tedi mining company, a World Bank
consultant was included in the final 5-week long mine life
extension (MLE) negotiations as an observer. The purpose was
to observe women's roles in the negotiations and,
through interviews with the participants, document the women
negotiators' aspirations and expectations from the
process. The ultimate goal is to provide a forward-looking
assessment of the outcomes and draw lessons for analysis and
program design not only in the Community Mine Continuation
Agreement (CMCA) regions but elsewhere in Papua New Guinea
(PNG) resource areas. This report documents the unique and
pioneering experience in PNG of women and their roles in
negotiating mining operations' benefit streams for
local communities. The lessons it draws for development
policy-making, planning, and program implementations are
relevant both for PNG and for other countries in their
attempts to make policy decisions about translating mineral
wealth into inclusive and sustainable development for local communities. |
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