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Contents

Introduction, Objectives & Themes ................................................................................................ 2

Agenda ............................................................................................................................................ 4

Venue and Directions ...................................................................................................................... 6

Supplementary Information ........................................................................................................... 7

Meet our Speakers & Facilitators ............................................................................................................. 7

About Lightning Talks .............................................................................................................................. 12

About the World Café ............................................................................................................................. 13

About the Convening Partners ................................................................................................................ 15

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Introduction, Objectives & Themes

Stocktaking

At 2019, the global mining sector is not a simple ecosystem with straightforward,

integrated value chains and highly controlled production processes.

Governments and firms recognize that deeply intertwined economic, social,

political and technological variables affect the balance of the sector as a

whole. Macro trends such as regulatory uncertainty, a rapidly-evolving

technological landscape, low levels of public trust in the sector, disruptive

market forces like the burgeoning sharing economy, and shifting consumer

preferences are bearing down on the sector. Cumulatively these trends

translate into an uncertain operational context for mining companies and

stakeholders, both in Canada and abroad.

Mounting pressure and persistent challenges

Against this milieu, the sector also faces mounting pressure to support and

advance gender equality – with increasing calls for governments and mining

companies to ensure resource extraction delivers lasting and inclusive benefits

for women at all scales of production.

● Women account for more than half of artisanal and small-scale (ASM)

miners in some countries, and about 30% of an estimated 40.5 million ASM

miners globally.

● Women are also largely underrepresented in large scale and formal

mining, both in developed and developing countries, accounting for

about 5-15% in most countries, including Canada.

● Among executives and senior management of publicly traded mining

companies, about five percent are women.

● Women’s voices and decision-making abilities remain low across all facets

of mining.

● Women and girls also bear the burden of mining’s negative environmental

and social impacts which are compounded by factors such restricted

access to education, social services and healthcare, unfair land title

systems, and roadblocks in access to finance.

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An asset-based approach

While it is true that women face considerable systemic barriers within the mining

sector, they also persist through adaptive approaches and resilience. From this

lens, asset-based approaches to unpacking gender dynamics in the sector may

serve us better than deficit-based approaches that frame women solely as

victims of inequality. This dual approach of identifying barriers and recognizing

resilience for gender equality opens up a greater discursive space to catalyze

progressive change.

Event objectives

From this vantage point, our workshop seeks to convene an inclusive, multi-

stakeholder dialogue that inspires action at the intersection of gender-equality

and the future of mining.

● Facilitate a dynamic knowledge sharing opportunity so as to crowd

source strategies, tools and approaches for embedding gender-equality

within a future-fit mining sector;

● Work in partnership towards building a Canadian community of practice

on these issues, with the shared vision of delivering meaningful, positive

change for gender equality in mining-dependent communities in Canada

and beyond.

Discussion themes and topics

● Indigenous approaches to gender equality in the mining sector

● Persistent and pernicious challenges that roadblock gender equality in

the mining sector – across ASM, SMEs and large-scale operations.

● Mapping a “solutions landscape” for advancing gender equality, viewed

from four lenses: community-led solutions; industry-led solutions; multi-

stakeholder/multi-scalar solutions; policy-led solutions.

● Exploring how and why solidarity matters, and how we build spaces for

genuine cooperation across all stakeholder groups within and beyond the

mining sector

● Data transparency & cross-sectoral “lessons learned” for gender equality

● Common but differentiated approaches among emerging and

advanced industrial economies to advance gender equality.

● Sexual and gender-based violence in the mining sector

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Agenda

Dialogue facilitator: Mora Johnson, Head of Secretariat, Voluntary Principles on

Security and Human Rights

09:00 Welcome remarks and land acknowledgement

● Matthew Bliss, Deputy Director of Programs, IGF

● Professor Doris Buss, Department of Law and Legal Studies, Carleton

University

09:10 Opening keynote

● Dr. Jennifer Hinton, Director, East Africa Operations, M2Cobalt, Uganda

and Adjunct Professor, Institute of African Studies, Carleton University

09:30 Lightning talks

● Lema Ijtemaye, Manager, Socio-Economic Development Department,

Pauktuutit Inuit Women of Canada: Inuit women’s economic security

and prosperity in the resource extraction industry

● Kelly Cooper, President, Centre for Social Intelligence: Towards gender

equality; experience from other sectors, and leveraging private-public

collaboration

● Jamile Cruz, Board Director, Women in Mining Canada and Co-

founder, I&D 101: Women in Mining National Action Plan in Brazil

● Sarah Daitch, UNDP, Conflict Prevention, Extractives, Bureau for Policy

and Programme Support: Policy approaches for emerging mineral-

producing governments and new training materials for gender-

inclusive governance and mitigating gender-based violence

10:00 Q&A

10:15 Health break

10:30 Solutions café

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Using the World Café design process, this session will aim to foster

authentic conversation and knowledge-sharing among diverse

stakeholders attending the workshop by reflecting on one core question:

What solutions, if implemented today, could ensure gender equality is a

catalyst and not a casualty in the future of mining.

Table moderators

Solutions Café discussions will be moderated by Lightning talks speakers,

as well as:

● Melanie Campbell, Acting Director, Canadian Minerals and Metals

Plan Secretariat, Lands and Minerals Sector, Natural Resources

Canada

● Lina Holguin, Senior Policy Analyst, Global Affairs Canada

11:50 Closing remarks

● Dr. Priya Bala-Miller, Director, Partnerships and Program Development,

CIRDI

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Venue and Directions

Venue

2017 Dunton Tower

Carleton University

1125 Colonel By Drive

Ottawa, K1S 5B6

Map

Dunton Tower is the tallest building at Carleton and is easy to spot from almost

anywhere on campus. Access is via Library Road, labelled “DT” in the bottom

left area of the campus map available at: www.carleton.ca/campus

Transit

The venue is accessible by public transit.

BUS: Take OC Transpo bus #4, #7 or #111. Disembark at Pedestrian Blvd, and

follow it to Library Road, turn left and continue until you see Dunton Tower.

TRAIN: The O-train stops on Carleton campus. Walk west to Dunton Tower.

Parking

Cars can enter campus from Bronson and Sunnyside or Colonel By Drive.

Complimentary parking for 12 June can be found at: P3, P4, P5, P10, P11 (which

are the lots also used for the graduation ceremonies scheduled for that day).

Pay and Display parking spots are marked with a red dot on the parking map

available at: https://carleton.ca/parking/parking-map/

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Supplementary Information

Meet our Speakers & Facilitators

Dr. Priya Bala-Miller, Director, Partnerships and Program Development, Gender

Equality Lead, CIRDI

Dr. Bala-Miller has over 16 years of professional experience in sustainable

development with specialist expertise on issues related to gender equality,

human rights and sustainable finance. She previously worked with international

non-government organizations, UN Agencies and institutional investors, where

she led multi-stakeholder global research and capacity building programmes

on these sustainability issues. In these roles, she also represented stakeholder

concerns in global forums such as the UN Commission on Sustainable

Development, The UN-led Marrakech Process for a 10-Year Framework of

Programs (10YFP) on Sustainable Consumption and Production, the OECD’s

Working Party of the Trade Committee, the European Commission and the UN-

backed Principles for Responsible Investment (UN-PRI). She held the 2015 Jesse

and Betsy Fink Foundation Research Fellowship at the Sustainability Accounting

Standards Board and is an alumnus of the OIKOS/UN-PRI Young Scholars Finance

Academy.

Matthew Bliss, Deputy Director, IGF

Matthew Bliss is the Deputy Director of IGF Programs responsible for supporting

member governments leverage their mineral wealth for sustainable

development and poverty reduction. He focuses on members’ technical needs

and the strategic partnerships required to implement IGF’s programs. Matthew

has over 25 years of leadership experience in mine development and

community engagement. Prior to joining IGF, Matthew worked in senior positions

with Cordaid, Centerra Gold and Inmet Mining. He has also been on a number

of Boards, including EITI International, International Water Association and Better

Coal. Matthew has a degree in Geology from the University of Waterloo and a

certificate in Environmental Assessment from Lakehead University.

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Professor Doris Buss, Department of Law and Legal Studies, Carleton University

Doris Buss has been teaching and researching in the areas of women’s rights

and international law and policy, both in Canada and the UK, for over twenty

years. She is currently researching women’s artisanal and small-scale mining

livelihoods in Kenya, Sierra Leone and Mozambique. Together with Blair

Rutherford, Professor of Anthropology at Carleton, and partners at universities

and organizations in Canada and Africa, she has been conducting research on

women’s livelihoods in artisanal and small-scale mining in sub-Saharan Africa.

Her most recent publications include “Conflict Minerals and Sexual Violence in

Central Africa: Troubling Research”, Social Politics (2018); “’Remember the

Women of Osiri’: Women and Gender in Artisanal and Small-Scale Mining in

Migori County, Kenya”, Canadian Journal of African Studies (with Sarah Katz-

Lavigne, Aluoka Otieno, Eileen Alma) (2019).

Melanie Campbell, Acting Director, Canadian Minerals and Metals Plan

Secretariat Lands and Minerals Sector, Natural Resources Canada

Melanie Campbell is the Acting Director of the Canadian Minerals and Metals

Plan Secretariat. Housed within the Lands and Minerals Sector at Natural

Resources Canada, the Secretariat coordinates the development and delivery

of this pan-Canadian Plan mandated by Canada’s Mines Ministers. Ms.

Campbell has been with Natural Resources Canada for over 20 years where she

has worked on numerous mining-related files. She was formerly a Deputy

Director of Strategic Policy, where she advised on legislative, regulatory and

policy changes with implications for the mining industry. Ms. Campbell has

previously worked on areas of public policy relating to natural resource

development, with a focus on environmental and regulatory issues and

Indigenous participation in mining. She holds a Bachelor of Arts (Law) from

Carleton University, a Master of Public Administration from Dalhousie University,

and a Graduate Degree in Sustainable Development (Natural Resources) from

Carleton University.

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Kelly Cooper, President, Centre for Social Intelligence

Kelly Cooper is the Founder and President of the Centre for Social Intelligence

(CSI). Ms. Cooper helps leaders create a gender transformation within their

organizations by conducting gender gap audit assessments, gender strategies

and national sector gender action plans. Ms. Cooper has been a guest speaker

at various domestic and international conferences aimed at increasing women

in senior executive roles and in technical positions in the natural resource

sectors. Over her 25-year career, Ms. Cooper has worked in Asia, Africa, Latin

America, and Europe on various sustainable development projects. She holds

an M.A. in International Environment, Development and Policy from the

University of Sussex, UK, and an Honours BSc. from the University of Toronto, and

holds certifications in GBA+, EQ-i 2.0 and ProSci change management (ADKAR

model).

Jamile Cruz, Board Director, Women in Mining Canada and Co-founder, I&D 101

Jamile is the co-founder and executive director of I&D 101, a consulting

firm specializing in Inclusion and Diversity strategy development and

implementation. She has spent over eighteen years with clients transforming

businesses in high performing organizations, creating and implementing

strategies to reduce operational costs and achieve their business goals. She

has international experience across multiple industries including mining,

engineering, telecommunications and management consulting, where she

worked directly for Hatch, Vale and Accenture and advised Fortune 500

organizations. She is now driven to share her knowledge and experience to

create a greater social impact.

She serves as a board member of Women in Mining Canada, a leading

organization for women in mining, which envisions an industry that fosters,

promotes and empowers women.

Jamile holds a Project Management Professional designation, a

Master’s Certificate in Project Management, and a Bachelor of Engineering

degree.

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Sarah Daitch, United Nations Development Programme, Conflict Prevention,

Extractives, Bureau for Policy and Programme Support

Sarah Daitch is a mediator, facilitator and trainer, specializing in public dispute

resolution and consensus building on sustainable development issues. As

founder and principal of Daitch & Associates, Sarah has consulted on dispute

resolution and conflict prevention initiatives in Canada, US, Europe, Latin

America, Africa and Asia. Originally from communities in the Northwest Territories

(NWT), Sarah worked previously as Program Manager for ACCESS Facility in The

Hague, and is a Chartered Mediator with the Alternative Dispute Resolution

Institute of Canada. Sarah consults for the UN Development Program on conflict

prevention programs in the extractive sector; she supports a project on how

governments in mineral producing countries can strengthen their policy

responses to gender gaps linked to mining. For UNDP, Sarah also leads a project

on the participation of communities in mining governance through participatory

environmental monitoring committees.

Dr. Jennifer Hinton, Director, East Africa Operations, M2Cobalt, Uganda and

Adjunct Professor, Institute of African Studies, Carleton University

Dr. Hinton has almost 20 years of experience working with miners, communities,

governments and companies in 20 countries in Africa, Asia and South America.

Her expertise ranges from improving the technical, economic, environmental,

occupational safety, and social performance of small-scale mines to gender

dimensions of the minerals sector to sustainable development in mining. In

addition to her work as a consultant, Jennifer is a Director of several private and

public mineral exploration companies and an Adjunct Professor at Carleton

University. Dr. Hinton is a Geological Engineer who additionally holds an MASc

and PhD (Mining Eng) from the University of British Columbia.

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Lina Holguin, Senior Policy Analyst, Global Affairs Canada

Ms. Holguin has over 20 years of professional experience in international

development, humanitarian response and policy. She has been a long-term

advocate for women's rights and gender equality. She is currently a senior policy

analyst in the Natural Resources and Governance Division at Global Affairs

Canada. In this position, she is responsible for the alignment of natural resources

management policies and programs with Canada's Feminist International

Assistance Policy. She also represents Global Affairs Canada at the Extractive

Industries Transparency Initiative and in the Steering Committee of the

Extractives Global Programmatic Support Multi-Donor Trust Fund.

Before working for the Government of Canada, Lina worked for 17 years at

Oxfam where she contributed to the implementation of campaigns and

humanitarian responses, as well as to development programs. She has also

worked as a journalist for Radio Canada International, the BBC World Service

(London, UK) and several news media in Colombia. She holds a Bachelor's

degree in Social Communications and Journalism and a Master of Arts in Peace

and Conflict Studies. Lina was born in Colombia and immigrated to Canada 20

years ago. She is married and is the proud mother of two children.

Lema Ijtemaye, Manager, Socio-Economic Development, Pauktuutit Inuit

Women of Canada

Lema Ijtemaye is the Manager of the Socio-Economic Development

department at Pauktuutit Inuit Women of Canada, the national representative

organization for Inuit women in Canada. She works on topics relating to social

and economic issues concerning Inuit women including political equality,

women’s leadership, environmental issues, and resource extraction.

Mora Johnson, Head of Secretariat, Voluntary Principles on Security and Human

Rights

Mora Johnson is a lawyer, consultant, and a leading expert in responsible

business practices. Her interests include anti-corruption and anti-money

laundering compliance, the human rights responsibilities of business, and

modern slavery supply chain due diligence. She is currently serving as Head of

Secretariat for the Voluntary Principles on Security and Human Rights.

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About Lightning Talks

What

Lightning talks are very short sessions (usually about 5 minutes) that are typically

scheduled in a plenary format. This means that the entire audience of an event

is in the room and explains why the talks have to be short. Even if some of the

subjects aren't interesting to everybody, the next one comes just a few minutes

later.

These talks provide an opportunity for people to present what they work on and

for the audience to find out about leading practices and innovation. Perhaps

more importantly, the audience can find out who to talk to—connecting names

and faces to subjects.

Due to their nature, lightning talks should provide valuable content but avoid

depth. This is as much a strength as it is a weakness, though, as presenters have

to focus on what matters most. Details like lengthy personal or institutional

introductions, too many examples and complex processes fall to the wayside

and a single point, idea or solution takes centre stage in the presentation.

This information-blitz is also sometimes referred to as an ‘ignite’ talk because it is

meant to spark further conversation and new ideas.

Why

Lightning talks are a great way to present content to an audience in a clear

and concise way. It sets the tone for creative collaboration because their

successful execution requires planning, conversations and preparation between

convenors and presenters.

Source: Jos Poortvliet, opensource.com

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About the World Café

What

Using thoughtful design principles and a simple method, the World Café is a

powerful social technology for engaging people in conversations that matter,

offering an effective antidote to fast-paced fragmentation and isolation in

today’s world. Based on the understanding that conversation is the core process

that drives personal, business, and organizational life, the World Café is more

than a method, a process, or technique – it’s a way of thinking and being

together, with purpose.

Why

The convening partners have chosen to name our café the Solutions Café. The

intention is to create a discursive space to reflect on a carefully curated

question related to the event theme, and with input from technical experts. The

end goal is to synthesize the conversations in order generating a “solution-set”

for advancing gender equality in mining at multiple scales of governance. This

approach draws on seven design principles:

1) Set the context with content

2) Create a safe, inclusive and open space

3) Explore questions that matter

4) Encourage everyone’s contribution, value diverse forms of knowledge

5) Connect diverse perspectives

6) Listen together for patterns and insights

7) Share collective discoveries.

Café-etiquette

● Have fun

● Listen to understand, not just to advance your position

● Facilitate yourself and others

● Contribute your thinking

● Link and connect ideas

● Slow down so you have time to think and reflect

● Focus on what matters

● Speak with your mind, and heart.

Source: World Café Community Foundation

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What can participants expect?

● Participants can expect to engage with each other in small groups

around 3 conversation clusters; Each conversation table will be hosted by

a technical expert.

● During the first rotation, participants will engage on the core question.

They will be encouraged to write, doodle or draw their key ideas on

materials provided.

● When the first rotation ends, participants act as “pollinators” to carry key

ideas, themes and questions into their new conversations.

● By providing the opportunity for people to move in several rounds of

conversation, ideas, questions and themes begin to link and connect.

● The session will close with a town-hall style conversation to identify

patterns, collective knowledge and possibilities for action.

How to prepare for the Solutions Cafe?

Participants are encouraged to pre-identify solutions that speak to some of

themes we anticipate emerging during the conversation, and to review

hyperlinked resources where provided below:

● Accountability and redress mechanisms for holding industry and

government to account for gender-based rights violations

● Amplifying indigenous women’s voices in community consultations &

sector-related policies

● Scaling up inclusive, participatory governance models

● Effective or innovative policy approaches from mineral-producing

governments that have helped to address specific gender gaps

● Common ground between industry, government and community priorities

● Innovative solutions that demonstrate firms can start to address gender

equality through a systemic lens

● Leading practices for diversity and inclusion in the mining sector, with a

view to Canada’s 30% public policy target via the Canadian Minerals and

Metals Plan (CMMP).

● Aligning public policy agendas on the transition to a green economy and

diversity/inclusion.

● Emerging developments such as the EITI’s data disclosure requirements on

gender-metrics in the context of mining-related revenue transparency

and the new OECD Stakeholder Statement on Implementing Gender

Responsive Due Diligence & Human Rights of Women in Mineral Supply

Chains.

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About the Convening Partners

Institute of African Studies at Carleton University

The Institute of African Studies offers undergraduate and graduate degrees that

combine African studies with other disciplines (from history to business, law to

anthropology). The Institute builds on Carleton’s long history of expertise on

Africa by bringing together faculty, researchers, community members and

students to provide fresh insight into current and historical dynamics of Africa.

Students and faculty at the Institute have been conducting research across

multiple projects on women’s livelihoods in artisanal and small-scale mining, and

through this work, examining the gendered dimensions of international resource

governance initiatives. The projects affiliated with the Institute include two

examining women’s livelihoods in artisanal and small-scale gold mining in

Kenya, Mozambique and Sierra Leone (with various collaborators in Canada

and Africa including Joanne Lebert (IMPACT), Eileen Alma (the Coady Institute,

St. Francis Xavier University (Canada), Dr. Aisha Ibrahim (University of Sierra

Leone), colleagues at the universities of Nairobi and Eduardo Mondlane,

UNECA, GiZ, and civil society organizations in Sierra Leone and Mozambique).

A third project conducted a mixed method study of women’s ASM economic

activities in the artisanal mining of tin, tantalum, tungsten and gold in

Democratic Republic of Congo, Rwanda and Uganda, in partnership with the

Canadian organization IMPACT, Uganda’s Development Research and Social

Policy Analysis Centre and Dr. Jennifer Hinton. Funding was provided through

the Growth and Economic Opportunities for Women initiative (UK Department

for International Development, William and Flora Hewlett Foundation, and the

International Development Research Centre, Canada). For more information on

these projects: https://carleton.ca/africanstudies/research/artisanal-mining-

and-gender-in-sub-saharan-africa-exploitation-miniere-artisanale-et-le-genre/

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CIRDI

The Canadian International Resources and Development Institute (CIRDI) is a

trans-disciplinary center of expertise on natural resource governance. CIRDI is

part of the School of Public Policy and Global Affairs at the University of British

Columbia (UBC), Vancouver, Canada.

We aim to use sustainable natural resource management and governance as a

driver to help achieve the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). With

Canadian and International partners, our core service offering is to provide

leading-practice advice, technical support, training, capacity development

and applied research on natural resource governance.

We translate these services into meaningful dialogue and action by serving as a

convening platform for policy innovation, knowledge mobilization and shared

learning on sustainable and inclusive natural resource governance. In line with

our current strategic plan, we concentrate our efforts in three programmatic

areas: Public Sector Capacity and Governance; Artisanal and Small-scale

Mining (ASM); The Environment and Climate Change.

IGF

The Intergovernmental Forum on Mining, Minerals, Metals and Sustainable

Development (IGF) is a member-driven organization which provides national

governments the opportunity to work collectively to achieve their sustainable

mining goals. It is devoted to optimizing the benefits of mining to achieve

poverty reduction, inclusive growth, social development and environmental

stewardship.

The IGF serves as a unique global venue for dialogue between its over 70-

member country governments, mining companies, industry associations and civil

society. Secretariat functions are provided by the International Institute for

Sustainable Development, which manages the day-to-day operations of the IGF

and provides logistical, administrative and strategic support for its activities. The

program is undertaken with the financial support of the Government of Canada

provided through Global Affairs Canada.