SSHRC Announces Grant for 杏吧原创 Research on Gender Equity
The Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC) has awarded Partnership Development Grants to 杏吧原创 University鈥檚 Doris Buss, Department of Law and Legal Studies, and Blair Rutherford, Department of Sociology and Anthropology. The funding amounts to nearly $200,000 and will be distributed over three years.
鈥溞影稍 researchers are making a global impact with their leadership and innovation,鈥 said Rafik Goubran, vice-president (Research and International). 鈥淲e are extremely grateful for SSHRC and our global partners for their support and collaboration.鈥
Ensuring that women benefit equally to men from the mining of high value minerals, like gold, is a problem in African countries that are harnessing mineral resources to improve development.
鈥淭here is a real push to ensure women’s equality is being included in a number of policy areas, including mining,鈥 said Buss. 鈥淭his is an important development because mining, somewhat counterintuitively, has important impacts on women. The problem is that while there seems to be some political will to ensure new laws on mining include and benefit women, there isn鈥檛 a lot of clarity about how to do this. This is where our project comes in.鈥
Artisanal and small-scale mining (ASM), employs an estimated 10 million people in Africa; 40 to 50 per cent are women.
鈥淲e are excited to draw on partners in Canadian and African universities, African civil society organizations and multilateral organizations for our research on gender and artisanal gold mining in Kenya, Sierra Leone and Mozambique,鈥 said Rutherford. 鈥淭his is a great opportunity to mobilize our research in ways that support initiatives concerning mining and gender in sub-Saharan Africa.鈥
This project aims to deliver training adapted to the specific needs of those who are engaged in developing policies on gender and resource governance.
Buss and Rutherford have been collaboratively researching women’s livelihoods in artisanal and small-scale mining in a number of African countries, gathering data on women’s activities in ASM, as well as the gendered organization of mining and resource governance in sub-Saharan Africa.
These research results are emerging at the same time that policy-makers are developing interventions to regulate ASM, increase its economic potential and address environmental, labour and social problems. Despite the significant role of women in artisanal mining, efforts to regulate the sector in sub-Saharan Africa appear to be designed without consideration of the impact on women’s economic roles.
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