According to Mr Wellington Takavarasha, chairman of Zimbabwe Artisanal and SmallScale Mining Council, there are an estimated 500 000 artisanal
WhatsAppMainstreaming Gender in the SADC Energy Sector Introduction Without access to modern energy services, women and spend most of their time on basic tasks that are timeconsum ing, nonremunerative and highly laborious, such as collecting biomass fuels. This further exacerbates gender inequalities as many women are unable to access wage employment, education or business
WhatsAppIn Guinea, women make up 75% of the ASM sector, while in Mali and Zimbabwe, women''s participation is around 50% (Hilson, 2002).Women''s work in ASM is overwhelmingly concentrated in the processing of minerals – carrying out arduous and often hazardous manual tasks such as crushing, milling, grinding and sorting rock, and subsequently concentrating gold, a process
WhatsApp· Shifting Views on Gender in the ASM Sector The literature on gender relations in the ASM sector has evolved greatly over the past three decades. Over this period, the focus of research has shifted from an emphasis on the negative impacts of artisanal mining on women and children, the natural resource base, and labor violations to the important economic roles of women in the sector.
WhatsAppWomen make up 10% of Zimbabwe''s 535,000 artisanal and smallscale miners, according to a report from the Pact Institute, a Washington, based development nonprofit. And the obstacles they face in the industry are considerable.
WhatsAppZimbabwe''s political economy placed mining centrally in successive development strategies, from a model of statedirected, broadly social welfarism in the 1980s; to structural adjustment and liberalisation in the 1990s; to a period of increasingly ad hoc
WhatsAppmining in Zimbabwe is adequately appreciated, the impact of mining activities has also received its fair share of criticism especially from the general public. The research investigates the impact of ZMDC mining activities on the people of Chiadzwa as well as the environment. The research adopted a case study model that covered the entire Chiadzwa community. Seven villages and
WhatsAppHer fears were confirmed when the Zimbabwe Republic Police (ZRP) imposed a ban on so called illegal mining activities on 1 January 2020 after the killing of a police officer in Kadoma by a machete wielding gang. Of course, calls for a distinction of ASMers and violent criminals must not be blind to the fact that within the sector, some elements are using violence to unfairly and
WhatsAppThe World Bank Gender and Extractive Industries (EI) Program works with governments, communities and companies to better understand and address how mining, oil and gas differently impact women and men. Global evidence suggests that while the benefits of extractive industry projects are captured primarily by men, women often bear a disproportionate share of social,
WhatsAppartisanal mining in central Africa, armed conflict and human rights At the same time that this global regime on mining governance is emerging, there is a growing consensus that gender should be integrated in efforts to strengthen mining as a sustainable economic sector, which often translate into a focus on women. The United Nations
WhatsAppThe regression results suggest that gender, education, push and pull factors significantly influence turnover intentions of employees in the tourism sector. Therefore, human resource managers in the Zimbabwean tourism sector need to pay more attention to these factors in order to minimise the employee turnover rate Keywords; intention to quit, employee turnover, turnover intentions, Zimbabwean
WhatsAppthe mining sector – artisanal and smallscale mining – has a huge workforce, estimated at between 4050% in Africa, according to the 2014 report Encyclopedia of Gender and Mining: Key Initiatives, Best Practices and Actors, produced by the German Federal Enterprise for International Cooperation (GIZ).
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WhatsApp· Mining is lagging behind in its progress on gender equality. 2018 numbers show the industry has the secondlargest median gender pay gap in
WhatsAppZimbabwe: Mining Laws and Regulations 2021. ICLG Mining Laws and Regulations Zimbabwe covers common issues in mining laws and regulations – including the acquisition of rights, ownership requirements and restrictions, processing, transfer and encumbrance, environmental aspects, native title and land rights – in 15 jurisdictions.
WhatsAppWe aim to reveal how gender inequality limits women''s contributions to the ASM sector and their potential as economic and social actors within the sector. We''re also examining how policies, regulations, and laws fail to acknowledge gender inequalities within mining communities and make women even more vulnerable.
WhatsAppIn Guinea, women make up 75% of the ASM sector, while in Mali and Zimbabwe, women''s participation is around 50% (Hilson, 2002).Women''s work in ASM is overwhelmingly concentrated in the processing of minerals – carrying out arduous and often hazardous manual tasks such as crushing, milling, grinding and sorting rock, and subsequently concentrating gold, a process which uses extremely toxic
WhatsAppZimbabwe''s mining sector has been beset by a deepening crisis for more than a decade. Initially based in declining production efficiencies and investor wariness due to the country''s worsening economic climate, the sector''s continuing deterioration has since been punctuated by political factionfights over divested public and private assets, murky deals involving the
WhatsAppTopic: Women''s rights/Gender issues in the mining sector. Talking points: 1. Recap on women''s rights in the Constitution and mining legislation. What role can women play in decision making to enhance transparency and accountability;
WhatsAppto the success story of the mining sector in Zimbabwe. Gold exports have been one of the major foreign currency generations in Zimbabwe and again it is also one of the major export products historically. On the other hand, there is weak correlation between the price of gold and the volume of production as shown in Appendix 1. Nickel Production: The production of Nickel has been impressive
WhatsAppmining sector with a view to understanding how these issues impact on Sustainable Development imperatives in the mining and minerals industry. This study focuses on the South African experience as it is the one country in the SADC region where, due to constitutional changes securing gender equality, policy and legislation has been amended on an ongoing
WhatsApp· Women make up 30% of Zimbabwe''s estimated million miners, according to a 2018 report from the International Institute for Sustainable Development, an independent think tank headquartered in Canada. But the obstacles they face in the industry are considerable.
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