SGV Assurance Partner and DIWATA President Eleanore A. Layug (EAL) was a speaker at the 2022 Philippine Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative (PH-EITI) Extractives Transparency Week – Women Leaders Forum at the Marco Polo Ortigas on 7 November 2022. The event was organized by PH-EITI and Angat Bayi[JDT1] (Bayi Inc.) to facilitate an exchange of perspectives on building the capacity of women to reshape initiatives in extractives and natural resources governance.
SGV Assurance Partner and DIWATA President Eleanore A. Layug (far right) with PH-EITI officials
Eleanore and Prof. Ladylyn Mangada, Chair of the PH-EITI Technical Working Group (TWG) on Gender, talked about PH-EITI and its gender initiatives. There was also a mentoring session on the role of subnational women leaders on resource management governance and furthering Open Government Partnership (OGP) with PH-EITI’s first global mentor, Former New Zealand Prime Minister Helen Clark. Key messages in the exchange were shared with other stakeholders in the PH-EITI National Conference.
The forum aimed to help women stakeholders define the concept of women empowerment in natural-resource management from the perspective of subnational women leaders, articulate comments on the framework for gender-principled initiatives in natural-resources governance, list key roles of women leaders for furthering open government partnership at the subnational level, and identify areas for collaboration between PH-EITI, Bayi Inc., and other resource governance advocate women’s groups.
Bayi Inc.[JDT2] is a non-profit organization that works to contribute to the full meaningful participation of women in decision-making in all spaces: home, community, educational institutions, workplaces, media, public sector, and regional/international formations.
PH-EITI website: https://pheiti.dof.gov.ph/
Angat Bayi website: https://angatbayi.com/
Angat Bayi Facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/bayiinc
