Broadening Options for Promoting Women's Participation in the Extractive Industries Sector in Africa

Abstract

This publication on Broadening Options for Promoting Women’s Participation in the Extractive Industries Sector is a valuable contribution to exploring solutions for putting women at the heart of extractive industries activities and taking them to scale in Africa. This is only a beginning. The sector cannot afford to lose momentum. It must now seize the opportunity to invest in genuine solutions which put social, economic and political empowerment for women in the extractive industries at the center of overcoming the gender barriers and issues women have vehemently faced in the sector to accelerate economic development and create expanded opportunities for women’s economic empowerment.

Keywords: extractive industries, EI, Dr Jack Onyisi Abebe, women, gender, equality, women's economic empowerment, GEWE, women's empowerment, word bank, extractives transparency initiative, broadening options, women's participation, Africa, Kenya, others, otherising, entrepreneurship, south south, learning