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EXECUTIVE SUMMARY Mining projects pose challenges and opportunities for women and men. However, women often bear an unequal burden of the negative impacts from mining projects and, when benefits are made available to local stakeholders, women often go without a share of those benefits. This report helps to show what governments, the private sector, NGOs, and communities can do to ensure that women and men share equally in the promise and costs of mining projects.  This report synthesizes findings from three case studies that each show examples of strategies used by mining projects to consider gender. It identifies gaps and opportunities […]

Begins with "an overview of GALS in value chain development highlighting the vision and analytical frameworks as well as the capacity development needed to initiate such projects. In the second chapter, the guide summarises the process and steps for catalysing change. The third chapter sets out a process for participatory and gender sensitive scoping and mapping of a value chain. The fourth chapter takes the reader through the suggested steps for negotiating gender equitable win –win strategies in value chains. The last two chapters deal with monitoring and managing project impacts. In all the chapters, the guide gives notes for […]