To all our partners, sponsors, members and stakeholders, we extend warm greetings. We want to say thank you for walking with us the journey of empowering women in various areas of the Extractives value chain.

We hope that our association and partnerships get stronger this year; may we synergize and prosper together and create a working environment for the growth and development of women in the Extractives sector.

#WeAreAWEIK is looking forward to working together with you to ensure that we achieve Gender equality today for a sustainable tomorrow.

 #WeAreAWEIK
Hannah Wang’ombe – CEO AWEIK

Reflecting on 2021 #WeAreAWEIK Activities- Supporting Women Artisanal Scale Miners

What to expect from AWEIK in 2022

AWEIK FOR YOU IN 2022

In line with its vision and mission, AWEIK is in the fast lane to ensuring that there are more women taking up spaces in the Extractives sector in Africa. Look out for:

1.      Gems Africa Trade and Exhibition Fair 2022

Following the success of Gems Africa 2021 Virtual Conference, the Kenya Gem and Jewellery Fair; an AWEIK program, will be hosting this year’s Gems Africa Trade and Exhibition 2022. The trade fair will be to showcase Africa’s natural resources.

Dates and location to be announced in due course.

2.      Tsavorite Week

Access to markets has proven to be a challenge for artisanal and small scale miners all around Kenya.

As the main global source of Tsavorite, Taita Taveta County in Kenya is uniquely positioned to establish a signature gemstone market with significant development potential through support to ASM.

Tsavorite Week will be a Mini Gem Expo. The aim of the mini expo will be to provide artisanal and small-scale miners with the exposure to expectations and standards that international markets require. It will be multi – faceted to include trainings on efficient production, value addition and marketing aspects.

Dates and location to be announced in due course.

3.      High – Level Fireside chats and webinars

The need for new approaches to driving economic growth is pertinent with action towards a reimangination of Africa’s Extractives industry in regional trade, technology advances, innovation and partnership post COVID 19. This will require in-depth analysis and conversations that can accelerate change suitable for sustaining the sector. 

Watch out for the dates, thematic areas and panel sessions.

4.      AWEIK Mentorship Programme (AMP)

The association, together with the mentees has put together several programs under AMP as means of involving its 1^st cohort of the mentorship program. The programs are geared towards assisting the mentees realize their full potential, get involved directly in the sector and an opportunity to interact with key industry players. Activities include:

• AMP youth connect: Connecting with AWEIK student members in various universities

• Training in Financial Literacy, Extractives sector value chain, Entrepreneurship, business planning and investing: Planning for Financial Security

• Field Trips- Get an actual feel of what the sector is all about, the operations and workings of different value chains within the sector

• Set up legal clinics

• Submission of Articles, Journals, videos and any other publications for AWEIK website

Watch out for invitations.

5.      Moyo Gems Training and Market Days

Moyo Gems Program is supporting key training activities on Gemstone Value Chain and Mining Health and Safety in Kenya and Tanzania.

There is an already pre-selected pilot class of artisanal and small scale (ASM) gemstone miners that will be trained in Taita Taveta County which will lead to the first Moyo Gems Market day in Kenya. The market day is an opportunity for Artisanal Small scale miners to showcase and sell their gemstones in an open market.

The program is set to include a GIA Training for the Artisanal Miners in areas of Environmental Health and Safety and Gemstone value addition

The collaborators in Kenya include: Pact Kenya, Pact Tanzania, the County Government of Taita Taveta, and the Association of Women in Extractive Industries in Kenya (AWEIK).

AWEIK Women in Extractives Series

AWEIK recently introduced the Women in Extractives series aimed at sharing the career stories of various women within the Mining, Oil and Gas value chains. This series is aimed at highlighting and promoting the participation of women in the extractives sector as well as encouraging other women who wish to participate at different levels of the value chain.

The series highlights these women’s career journeys, the challenges they have faced, the opportunities that exist within the sector and the role of AWEIK in supporting women realize these opportunities in the extractives and energy spaces.

This year, we are sharing the journey of Reshma Shah- Oil and Gas expert.

Read her story here

Pioneer Women in Extractives Awards- Africa Chapter 2022

Pioneer Women in Extractives Awards 2022

The Association of Women in Energy and Extractives in Kenya (AWEIK) in collaboration with Tenistore Enterprise hosted this year’s inaugural Pioneer Women in Extractives Awards- Africa Chapter- 2022.

PWEA is a Pan African platform created to showcase and appreciate the remarkable female talent in Africa’s extractives industry; Mining, Energy and Oil and Gas. The awards were set to celebrate and provide a platform for peer to peer learning for women in Extractives in Africa. The awards ceremony featured key industry players supporting the participation of women in different aspects of the Extractives sector value chain. Amb. (Dr.) Monica Juma, OXON, CBS, Cabinet secretary, Ministry of Energy, presided over the awards ceremony.

She emphasized on the need to develop better models of harnessing women’s talents in the extractives industry, continuous mentorship of young women to take up more spaces in the Extractives sector and in the energy movement.  She applauded the efforts to involve Artisanal small scale miners and recognize their efforts in growing their mining communities. 

PWEA 2022 nominees were drawn from over 9 countries from Africa (Kenya leading with most nominees) and with awardees receiving recognition for their work in:

• Africa Extractives Corporate Award- Elizabeth Rogo, Tsavo Oilfields Kenya

• Africa Extractives Mentor Award- Dr. Melba Wasunna, Base Titanium Ltd Kenya

• Africa Extractives Innovation Award- Audrey Mulama, KECBO Kenya

• Africa Extractives Entrepreneur of the year award- Miriam Kamau, Mimo Gems Kenya

• Africa Extractives Inclusion and Human Rights Defender Award- Sophia Takuva, AWOME Trust Zimbabwe

• Africa Most notable contributions to the Oil and Gas Sector Award- Elsie Mbugua, Leadwood Energy, Kenya

• Africa most notable contribution to the Artisanal Small scale mining sector Award- Salma Kundi, TAWOMA Tanzania

Special thank you to our partners and sponsors that made the event successful:

• Ministry of Petroleum and Mining

• Mayflower Foundation

• Ministry of Energy Kenya                 

• Extractives Baraza

• Base Titanium                                    

• Mineral Rights Board

• Oxfam                                                

• Zimbaqua

• Geothermal Development of Kenya  

• Society of Petroleum Engineers

The Awards theme was ‘ASANTE: An Appreciation for Africa’s Pioneer Women within the Extractives Industry’.
28^th Jan 2022

Nairobi, Kenya

See Gallery here

BE PART OF AWEIK

Become a member of the Association of Women in Energy and Extractives in Kenya (AWEIK). AWEIK provides women with opportunities for equitable professional and economic development within Kenya’s extractives industry.

We awaken women’s potential in oil, gas and mining industries through lobbying, branding, member capacity development and business development services.

Membership is open to individuals, companies, firms or other organisations engaged in extractives activities (large scale, small and medium scale and/or artisanal), business activities, professional services, academia or education in the extractives industries and/or extractives value chains (goods and services) and who are either women, or who are actively involved in the sponsorship and/or promotion of women in the extractives sector.

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Madini SACCO

Madini Sacco offers a savings platform for the Artisanal Small Scale Miners countrywide. The main aim of Madini Sacco is to provide an opportunity for each of its members to improve their respective economic and social conditions through promotion of financial access through loans to small and medium-scale miners and dealers who cannot access credit facilities from commercial banks. To become a member, write to us, [email protected]

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