ABSTRACT
Chapter 20 assesses the nature of gender-based damage and its underlying causes in the African natural resource industry. The chapter examines two distinct instances in which the exploitation of natural resources hurts women: first, in terms of gender-based violence in the mining industry, and second, in terms of the impoverishment of women as a result of such exploitation. It indicates that in order to integrate gender into natural resource management, these issues call for complex, technical and thorough solutions. In order to better address the deconstruction of structural harm that builds barriers of exclusion, it studies the patterns of discrimination in the natural resource sector. The chapter further explores the internal and external expressions of gender-based harm in order to better understand how to prevent the negative effects of projects on women in resource-rich communities.
