Deal #7359

2016 WACAM reports that there was not much employment created for local women in the mine. None of the compensation is received by women, the primary agricultural producers. The miners pay young school girls to have sex with them and teenagers have also been raped. Women’s Consultative Committee (WCC) Ahafo established the Women’s Consultative Committee (WCC) in 2008 mainly to enhance women’s participation in decision-making. Made up of about 100 members, the committee includes queen mothers and elected representatives of all community women and women’s groups/ associations within the Ahafo mine’s catchment area. The WCC has set up a revolving fund to empower women in the ten host communities economically.