The Association of Women in the Mining Sector of Burkina Faso (Association des Femmes du secteur minier du Burkina Faso – AFEMIB) is organising a Participatory Action Research (PAR) workshop from 05 to 08 December 2023 to draw up an action plan for women and young people in the commune of Mogtédo. This activity follows the one in Gogo, which was held from 21 to 24 November 2023.
Aware of the low level of women’s participation in the process of drawing up reference documents and in the anticipation process, AFEMIB, with the financial support of the Project to support the strengthening of land tenure and mining (Projet d’Appui au Renforcement du Foncier et des Mines – PARGFM), is organising these exchange workshops with groups of women and young people from the mining communes of Boudry, Bagassi, Houndé, Mogtédo and Gogo.
The objectives of the workshops include strengthening the participation of women and young people in community bodies to ensure that their specific needs are better taken into account, improving social cohesion between communities and specific groups, and producing action plans that best reflect the aspirations of women’s and young people’s groups in the municipalities concerned.
According to Lucie Kabré, President of AFEMIB: “The action plans will be forwarded to the local authorities and should be taken into account in the Communal Development Plans (Plans communaux de développement – PCD) to be financed by the Local Development Mining Fund (LDMF)”.
As a reminder, AFEMIB is part of a global initiative to reduce inequalities in the mining sector. It intends to support initiatives enabling women to make the most of mining resources through, among other things, the LDMF instituted by the 2015 Mining Code. Through an advocacy campaign, it has been working since 2018 to ensure that 30% of LDMF resources are extended to income-generating activities (IGAs) for women and young people in mining communities, with a view to increasing their effective and efficient participation in the sustainable development process.
In 2023, the Permanent Secretariat of the National Mining Commission and the LDMF drew up a guide to using the LDMF. This guide includes IGAs as beneficiaries of the LDMF. IGAs will be planned in regional and communal development frameworks.
AFEMIB is supported in running these workshops by an independent consultant in gender-based approaches and human rights, La Recherche Action Participative, Techniques d’IEC/CCC, Plaidoyer, Formation des Formateurs, who runs the workshops.
Moniratou Bandé
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