[Anthropgrad] RMAP ARGUMENT REMINDER - Monday 5 November 4.30-6pm, Sparke Helmore Theatre 2, ANU

[RMAP Seminars]

GENDER MAINSTREAMING IN THE MINING SECTOR: Is There One Best Way?

Panel
** Dr Colin Filer (RMAP Convenor)
** Dr Kuntala Lahiri-Dutt (RMAP Fellow)
** Ms Nurul Karim (PT. Kaltim Prima Coal, Superintendent of Community 
Empowerment)
**
Moderator
** Dr Gill Burke (Consultant Economist and Technical Assistance Advisor)

Monday 5 November 2007, 4.30-6pm - followed by refreshments
Sparke Helmore Theatre 2, ANU

Abstract
Over the last five years or so, organizations as diverse as the World 
Bank, Oxfam Community Aid Abroad, the Government of Papua New Guinea, 
and even some mining companies, have begun to argue that gender equity 
is the key to sustainable development in the mining sector. The RMAP 
Program itself has been riding this wave of enthusiasm with our ARC 
Linkage project on women’s empowerment in communities affected by the 
operations of our Linkage partner, Kaltim Prima Coal (see 
http://empoweringcommunities.anu.edu.au). What explains this outbreak of 
concern with gender equity or equality issues in the mining sector? What 
changes in policy or practice can be expected to arise from this concern 
at different levels of social and political organisation? How can 
initiatives taken in one political context make sense or be applied in 
other contexts where gender equity issues may have a very different 
history and profile. And what does any of this have to do with the 
concept of ‘sustainable development?

Bio
Dr Colin Filer (Resource Management in Asia-Pacific, Convenor)
Colin was the Associate Professor, Department of Anthropology and 
Sociology, University of Papua New Guinea (PNG); and Head, Social and 
Environmental Studies Division, National Research Institute, PNG. His 
research interests include the social context and impact of resource 
management policies and resource conservation or development projects in 
Melanesia.

Ms Nurul Karim (PT. Kaltim Prima Coal, Superintendent of Community 
Empowerment)
Nurul is a RMAP's guest from PT. Kaltim Prima Coal, Indonesia. She is 
currently Superintendent of Community Empowerment working in a wide 
range of community development programs, particularly in community based 
agribusiness and conservation programs in the contiguous mine site areas 
in East Kalimantan Province. She has a background in Agricultural 
studies and has worked for Kaltim Prima Coal since 1992, starting as a 
Secretary and later in their Business Analysis Department. Since 2003, 
Nurul has been responsible in implementing Community Development 
projects and has recently been involved in the Union's Agreement 
Process. With 15 years experience in mining industry, she will 
contribute an insiders view on gender issues in Indonesia's mining's 
industry.

Dr Kuntala Lahiri-Dutt (Resource Management in Asia-Pacific, Fellow)
Kuntala has undertaken research on gender issues related to mining since 
1993-94, first in Indian colliery tracts and then in Indonesia since 
2004, and has also a wide experience in gender and livelihood issues in 
artisanal and small scale mining. Kuntala is part of the International 
Women and Mining Network, and is the Chief Investigator of an ARC 
Linkage project that looks at how incorporating a gender approach in 
community development can lead to more sustainable livelihoods.

Dr Gill Burke (Consultant Economist and Technical Assistance Advisor)
Gill took her first degree at the London School of Economics and 
Political Science and her Doctorate at Birkbeck College, London 
University. Her Doctoral Thesis subject was the 19th & 20th Century Tin 
Mining Industry of Cornwall, UK. Since the 1980s Gill Burke has worked 
as Consultant Economist and Technical Assistance Advisor in the field of 
mineral resources development with clients including: Department of 
Mines, Republic of Indonesia; The European Union (as part of a SYSMIN 
project team); The International Labour Organisation Malaysia Mining 
Corporation; P.T.Timah TBk, Indonesia; United Nations: UNDP, UNESCAP and 
UNIDO. She was a member of the UNIDO Expert Group on the World 
Non-ferrous Metals Industry Lisbon Meeting and attended the First 
International Discussion Meeting on World Non-ferrous Metals Industry in 
Budapest, 1988. Gill has particular expertise on women in mining as well 
as small scale artisanal and illegal mining – particularly for high 
value minerals. In this context she has worked in Indonesia, Papua New 
Guinea, the Philippines and Vietnam. She remains a Consultant with the 
Raw Materials Group, Stockholm, Sweden producing regular analyses of 
world Metal Markets and the occasional country report – most recently on 
Mining in China and the coal mining industry of Indonesia. Her other 
interests include metal markets and all who trade and scam in them, 
mining health and safety or the lack of it.

-- 
Resource Management in Asia-Pacific Program
Research School of Pacific and Asian Studies
The Australian National University

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