'We Want What the Ok Tedi Women Have!' Guidance from Papua New Guinea on Women's Engagement in Mining Deals
Despite global gender equality gains in
education, life expectancy, and labor force participation,
two areas of persistent inequality remain: asset gaps and
women's agency. In many developing countries, including
Papua New Guinea (PNG), land and natural resources are
citizens' key assets. This briefing note, centered on
field research in north fly district explores the process of
negotiation and the progress in implementation of the
Community Mine Continuation Agreements (CMCAs). The purpose
of the research and the resulting brief is to understand how
the CMCAs came about, assess whether their promise is being
realized in practice, and provide guidance for mining and
gender practitioners looking to use mining agreements to
improve development outcomes for women, both in PNG and
further afield. Revised compensation agreements at the Ok
Tedi mine, called CMCAs, concluded in 2007 are an
encouraging innovation. In these revised CMCAs, women had a
seat at the negotiating table and secured an agreement
giving them 10 percent of all compensation, 50 percent of
all scholarships, cash payments into family bank accounts
(to which many women are cosignatories), and mandated seats
on the governing bodies implementing the agreement
(including future reviews of the agreement). The 2006-07 Ok
Tedi negotiation process and the resulting CMCAs were
internationally groundbreaking for having secured enhanced
rights for women in legally enforceable mining agreements,
even in a context of severe gender inequality. Nevertheless,
the gender asset gaps that persist in the midst of the
current global extractives boom highlight the need to engage
women more proactively in mining agreements and support
their ability to exercise greater agency over those
resources. More attention to the principles and experiences
of community-driven development, together with more local
political economy analysis, will likely benefit women's
engagement and outcomes.
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Bibliographic Details
| Main Authors: |
Menzies, Nicholas,
Harley, Georgia |
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| Language: | English
en_US |
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| Published: |
World Bank, Washington, DC
2012-09
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| Subjects: | ACCESS TO INFORMATION,
ACCESS TO JUSTICE,
ACCESS TO LAND,
ACCESS TO RESOURCES,
ANIMAL HUSBANDRY,
BASIC INFRASTRUCTURE,
BASIC LITERACY,
BENEFITS FOR WOMEN,
BOARDING,
BULLETIN,
CAPACITY BUILDING,
CHRONIC POVERTY,
CHURCHES,
CITIZENS,
COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT,
COMPENSATION,
COURT,
COURTS,
CRIMES,
CRIMES AGAINST WOMEN,
CUSTOM,
DAMAGES,
DECISION MAKING,
DEVELOPING COUNTRIES,
DEVELOPMENT EFFORTS,
DEVELOPMENT OBJECTIVES,
DEVELOPMENT PROJECTS,
DISEASES,
DISSEMINATION,
ECONOMIC EMPOWERMENT,
ECONOMIC OPPORTUNITIES,
EDUCATIONAL FACILITIES,
EDUCATIONAL OPPORTUNITIES,
EMPOWERING WOMEN,
EMPOWERMENT,
ENHANCING WOMEN,
ENVIRONMENT FOR WOMEN,
ENVIRONMENTAL DAMAGE,
ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACTS,
EQUAL PARTICIPATION,
EXTENSION,
FAMILIES,
FEMALE,
FISH,
FOCUS GROUP DISCUSSIONS,
FORMAL EDUCATION,
GENDER,
GENDER CONSIDERATIONS,
GENDER EQUALITY,
GENDER INEQUALITIES,
GENDER INEQUALITY,
HOME,
HOUSES,
HOUSING,
HUMAN HEALTH,
INDIGENOUS WOMEN,
INDIVIDUAL WOMEN,
JUSTICE,
KIDS,
LABOR FORCE,
LABOR FORCE PARTICIPATION,
LACK OF DEVELOPMENT,
LEADERSHIP,
LEARNING,
LEARNING CENTERS,
LEGAL RIGHTS,
LEGAL STATUS,
LIFE EXPECTANCY,
LITERACY,
LIVELIHOODS,
LOCAL CAPACITY,
LOCAL COMMUNITIES,
LOCAL GOVERNMENTS,
LOCAL WOMEN,
MATERNAL MORTALITY,
MATERNAL MORTALITY RATES,
MULTILATERAL ORGANIZATIONS,
NATIONAL ACTION,
NATIONAL ACTION PLAN,
NATIONAL COUNCIL,
NATIONAL COUNCIL OF WOMEN,
NATIONAL GOVERNMENT,
NATIONAL LEVEL,
NATURAL GAS,
NATURAL RESOURCES,
NONGOVERNMENTAL ORGANIZATIONS,
NUMERACY,
PARTICIPATORY PROCESS,
PERSONAL COMMUNICATION,
POSTERS,
PRACTITIONERS,
PROGRESS,
REGIONAL MEETINGS,
REGULATORY REGIME,
RIGHTS FOR WOMEN,
ROLE OF WOMEN,
SCHOOLS,
SERVICE DELIVERY,
SEXUAL VIOLENCE,
SKILLS DEVELOPMENT,
SOCIAL DEVELOPMENT,
SPILLOVER,
STATUS OF WOMEN,
SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT,
TECHNICAL ASSISTANCE,
TERTIARY EDUCATION,
TRAINING CENTERS,
URBAN SETTLEMENTS,
WIFE,
WILL,
WIVES,
WOMAN,
YOUNG GIRLS,
YOUTH, |
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| Online Access: | http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/2012/09/16755155/want-ok-tedi-women-guidance-papua-new-guinea-womens-engagement-mining-deals
https://hdl.handle.net/10986/17091
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