Gender and Social Accountability Ensuring women’s inclusion in citizen-led accountability programming relating to extractive industries

This paper was commissioned to inform the design of Oxfam’s Extractive Industries Strategic Plan 2016-2019. This Research Backgrounder considers a central question: how can we ensure that our Active Citizenship (AC) programming is not gender biased and that it fosters the participation of women and men in ways that support women’s empowerment and improves the social position of women in relation to men?