Radically Different: Gender justice in natural resource governance

Opening webinar: Feminist Natural Resource Governance: Heralding a Just Transition

25 January 2021 – 8:30AM EST / 13:30 GMT / 17:30 EAT

Languages: English, French, Spanish

Recording: https://oxfam.box.com/s/ybjp38bkdo433tkcta8oby11icfje7r0

Inspired by 18-policy imperatives endorsed by activists worldwide, panelists explore the idea of feminist natural resource governance, what it would take to activate it, and how it might propel us towards a just transition. Join us in reimagining natural resource governance as a kick-off to the webinar series.

Speakers:
Moderator: Memory Kachambwa, Executive Director, The African Women’s Development and Communication Network (FEMNET)

• Mark Robinson – Executive Director, Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative
• Sascha Gabizon – Executive Director, Women Engage for a Common Future (WECF)
• Juana Mercedes De Brioso – General Coordinator, Confederación Nacional de Mujeres Campesinas (CONAMUCA)
• Gillian Davidson – Chair, International Women in Mining and Board Member of New Gold, Inc. and Central Asia Metals Plc.
• South African delegate to UN Women Generation Equality Action Coalition on Economic Justice and Rights

Organiser: Oxfam

Webinar 1 – What extractives data do we need to advance women’s rights in the context of natural resource extraction? 

26 January 2021 – 10:00 EST / 15:00 GMT / 18:00 EAT

Languages: French with English interpretation

Registration link: https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_ZoEgrUFKQ6C8fe-PZCLLgw

How can we use extractives data to help mitigate the negative impacts of extraction, and ensure women can access decision-making fora and economic opportunities linked to the sector?

Join us on 26th January for a discussion among activists, industry representatives and data users, as we explore what extractives data can be used to advance women’s rights, where to find it, and where we need to push for more disclosure.

Speakers:
Moderator: Beverley HATCHER-MBU, Manager, Development Gateway

• Amadou BAH, Journalist, Executive Director ONG Actions Mines, Guinea
• Nentebou BARRY, PWYP Guinea, MSG member of EITI Guinea
• Bernadette SONKO, Journalist and researcher and the Centre d’Études des Sciences et Techniques de l’Information (CESTI, UCAD – Dakar, Sénégal)
• Nestorine SANGARE, Founder Center for Research and Intervention in Gender & Development, former Minister of Woman Promotion and Gender Equality, Burkina Faso
• Cynthia TRIGO, Total, Human Rights Senior Advisor

Organisers: PWYP, Development Gateway

Webinar 2 – Pan-African Feminist perspectives on Illicit Financial Flows (spotlight focus on the extractives sector)

28 January 2020 – 7:00 EST / 12:00 GMT / 15:00 EAT

Languages: French, English

Recording link: https://femnet-my.sharepoint.com/:v:/g/personal/n_maloba_femnet_or_ke/ESktkLbNBK1LprzLXsqm0XQBB_E-jnk0gOzbcugF2aiKuQ?e=0L8Wnv

Given the significance of the extractives sector in African countries, as well as the heightened impact of Illicit financial Flows(IFFs) within the sector; this session will expound on the key gender dimensions on the impacts of IFF’s and how it’s driving factors affects the rights of women and girls in Africa.

Speakers:
Moderator: Omolara Oriye – human rights lawyer, activist feminist legal researcher

• Fadzai Traquino, Director for Women and Law in Southern Africa
• Miriam Omollo, Executive Director at the African Policy Research Institute (APRI)
• Melania Chiponda, Independent Researcher with 15 years experience working in extractives

Organisers: FEMNET

Webinar 3 – Women Following the Money: Extractive industry accountability in Zambia and the Dominican Republic

2 February 2021 – 8:30AM EST / 9:30 DR (Atlantic Standard Time) / 13:30 GMT / 16:30 EAT

Languages: English, French, Spanish

Recording: https://oxfam.box.com/s/g6imgn9e8w0jn7lmcss3unb0n7u7ofjv

This webinar unpacks the gender-based barriers in extractive industry governance systems across the Dominican Republic and Zambia. It explores the challenges and opportunities for women’s organizations to influence decision-making around the fair distribution of mining revenues.

Speakers:
Moderator: Glenys de Jesus Checo

• Katherine Cabrera, Youth Coordinator, Confederación Nacional de Mujeres del Campo (CONAMUCA)
• Luisa Suarez, Centro de Formación para Mujeres Organizadas
• María Liberadora (CEFORMOMALI)

Organiser: Oxfam in the Dominican Republic and Oxfam in Zambia

Webinar 4 – The State of Gendered Extractive Governance 

3 February 2021 – 9:00 EST / 12:00 GMT / 15:00 EAT

Languages: English, Arabic, French

Recording: https://resourcegovernance.org/events/web-event/radically-different-gender-justice-natural-resource-governance

NRGI and WRI will offer insights from their study on the gender provisions in the documents governing the oil, gas, and mining sectors of 12 countries and make suggestions for how countries can build documents that support gender-transformative change.

Speakers and moderator: Aubrey Menard (NRGI) and Elizabeth Moses (WRI)

Organiser: Natural Resource Governance Institute, World Resources Institute

Webinar 5 – Living with oil and its toxicity: resisting the gendered impacts of oil pipelines from the Amazon to East Africa

4 February 2021 – 8:30 EST / 13:30 GMT / 16:30 EAT

Languages: English, French, Spanish

Recording: https://oxfam.box.com/s/mffo8kntywxdch4nq68mkico4m3id3af

This panel will explore community-based efforts in the Peruvian Amazon to resist the gendered impacts of oil and its toxic waste and explore what lessons these efforts hold for emerging oil landscapes like East Africa.

Speakers:
Moderator: Valeria Urbina, Coordinator, Grupo Regional de Género y Extractivas (GRGE)

• Karine Péloffy, Parliamentary Affairs Advisor, Senate of Canada
• Deborah Delgado Pugley, Consejo Latinamericano de Ciencias Sociales (CLACSO)
• Samantha Luseno, Kenya Civil Society Platform on Oil and Gas (KCSPOG)
• Gerald Byarugaba, Oxfam

Organiser: Oxfam & Grupo Regional de Género y Extractivas