Gender Equality, Human Rights & Business
KIT brings long-standing expertise on gender and rights analysis and value chain development to pressing questions around gender equality, human rights and responsible business conduct.
We work with our clients and partners to better understand gendered risks along value chains and capitalise on opportunities to generate meaningful human rights and equality outcomes. This means explicitly identifying policies and practices that perpetuate gender inequalities, ensuring that both men and women equally benefit from their engagement in value chains, and transforming gender relations in markets, institutions, communities and households.
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We support clients and partners from government, civil society and private sector by:
- Establishing a better understanding of gender and human rights risks and opportunities along specific value chains.
- Helping stakeholders develop, implement and promote gender- responsive policies, strategies and tools – including for gender-responsive due diligence – to prevent or remedy human rights violations connected to business activities and promote women’s rights and empowerment.
- Creating awareness and strengthening capacity for a range of strategies to promote gender equality and human rights in business activities. This includes demonstrating changes in outcomes when shifting from a focus on avoiding gender-related impacts to proactively promoting gender transformative change.
- Facilitating multi-stakeholder dialogue to secure commitments from key stakeholders to take action and address women’s and girl’s rights concerns in sector-specific markets, institutions, and communities.
Related Publications
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A Social Relations of Gender Analysis of Artisanal and Small-scale Mining in Africa’s Great Lakes Region
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Research article
Much research on gender and artisanal and small-scale mining (ASM) has tended to focus on describing the different roles women undertake in mining, while there has been less attention to how gender relations are constructed, reinforced and challenged in and through ASM. Drawing from desk and field research in the Great Lakes Region of Africa, […]
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A Guide for Governments, Companies & Practitioners to Support Women’s Rights and Mitigate Gender Risks During OECD Due Diligence Implementation
The development potential of conflict-free mineral supply chains is now firmly recognised, however, for this potential to be fully realised, men and women need to benefit equally from mineral production and trade. Women’s critical role – and the unique risks and challenges they face – need to be made visible to support more equitable development […]
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Energy Politics and Gender
Policy makers and scholars often assume gender to be irrelevant in energy politics. However, an increasing body of scholarship and development policies has focused on how gender discrimination has negative effects on women’s access to energy resources and equal contributions to decision-making processes that influence energy issues. This article evaluates four overarching and salient policy […]
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Quick Scan: Key Actors in Gender and Mining in the Netherlands and Internationally
In recent years, there has been a growing interest in exploring and working on gender and mining issues in artisanal and small-scale mining (ASM) as well as in the formal larger-scale mining (LSM) sector. Many international stakeholders have become active in this field, such as the World Bank, and UN Women in particular via its […]
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