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2 The first 18 months Last quarter 2012 /2013 analysis of SA and regional EI efforts for any addressing gender/ women s rights; request to IANRA to host exploratory project 2013 researching and writing collection of 6 papers, in-depth scoping of national and regional organisations/efforts, fundraising Oct 2013 regional meeting - launch and election of oversight structure Last quarter development of long-term strategy Samantha leading, communications consultant, two contract researchers, Sthobekile joins!

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6 Participatory action research in nine countries Solidarity exchanges in nine countries Regional roundtables, study tours, meetings Women s rights political education and movement building meeting Kenya study tour Regional political economy of mining, gender analysis and writing workshop Jan 2015 sub-regional women and coal exchange and linked activities Oct 2015 regional Fossil Fuels Energy and Climate Justice meeting, Niger Delta

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16 cont. Forging political alliance, building relations World Social Forum participation WoMin joins the Global Campaign against Corporate Impunity and supports the building of the Southern African People s Tribunal Intensive solidarity work with Marikana women Conference of the Parties, 2014 and 2015 SADC people s summit and side events Alternative Mining Indaba inside and outside Many many conferences and workshops

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18 cont. Influencing policy, influencing others Starting a film on extractivism and its impacts on peasant and working class women SADC campaigning August 2014 Figuring out the UN institutions UNHRC, peer review processes, UN Women Strong start to regional campaign on Fossil Fuels Energy and Women s Rights Fundraising and organisation building! Samantha (director), Sthobe (admin), communications consultant (on retainer), researcher recruited, various consultants working on retainer

19 WoMin and its independence August 2015 WoMin oversight groups starts talking about need for WoMin separation from its host, IANRA October 2015 WoMin informs IANRA it will go independent February 2016 WoMin oversight group decides on legal entity and other aspects of the transition HUGE amount of work to prepare for independence building legal entity and founding docs, finance policy, organisational policy and procedures, opening bank account, satisfying statutory requirements 29 July 2016 WoMin s trust registered By end December 2016, WoMin in office and functioning independently

20 Our political areas of focus and staff Fossil fuels energy and climate justice campaign Five countries Nigeria (Kebetkache), Uganda (NAPE), South Africa (WoMin and VEJA), DRC (working alongside International Rivers, partnerships in formation), Kenya (Save Lamu, Mui Basin organisations) Mela (lead), Caroline (South Africa) Extractivism, Militarisation and Violence against Women Three countries Zimbabwe (CNRG), Sierra Leone (WOME and NMJD), Mozambique (JA) Nicky (lead)

21 Our political areas of focus and staff Consent and democratised decision making Burkina Faso (ORCADE), South Africa (Fuleni), Madagascar (CRAAD) Ghana, Tanzania, Zambia? Georgine (lead) Cross cutting African Feminist Development Alternatives dedicated work with NAPE, NAWAD and Gaia to pilot alternatives in Uganda (Sam/Georgine) Content supporting communications, feminist school, feminist participatory action research materials and training, fundraising, organisational development

22 Our theory of change/approach Our emerging vision is of an Africa in which all women exercise control over their lands, livelihoods, natural resources, bodies and cultural heritage. WoMin s mission is to build women s movements to challenge destructive extractivism and propose development alternatives that respond to the needs of the majority of African women. WoMin s goal over the period is that peasant and working class women impacted by extractives industries in at least twelve countries in the Africa region, as well as at the subregional and regional levels may benefit from minimum safeguards which they and their allies clearly locate in a transition towards a progressive post-extractivist, women-centred and ecologically responsive African alternative to the current destructive model of extractivism.

23 Our theory of change/approach First thrust = lying at the centre of the theory is the commitment to impacted women organised in grassroots formations and movements powering the change. Our work is therefore deeply oriented to organising and movement building of affected women. GIVEN EXPANSIVE NATURE OF CHANGE, MOVEMENT-BUILDING NEEDS TO BE INTERSECTED AND INVOLVE DIVERSE CONSTITUENCIES.

24 Our theory of change/approach Second thrust = advance reforms that are located within a wider strategy of transitioning to a post-extractivist society. We could call this approach transformative reformism (or non-reformist reforms). FPIC, compensation, environmental regulation and enforcement Final thrust = identify, develop and advance the postextractivist women-centred progressive and ecologically responsive African alternative to destructive extractivism. REQUIRES DEEP CROSS-SECTORAL AND CROSS- MOVEMENT COLLABORATION, BUILDING ON EXISTENT ALTERNATIVES, PILOTING WITH OTHERS

25 How we work for change Political education (feminist school) Women s organising/ movement building Women s solidarity Feminist research Women-led, grassrootsdriven campaigning Cross movement alliance-building AFRICAN POST-EXTRACTIVIST, ECO-FEMINIST, CLIMATE JUST ALTERNATIVES