Local Content: The Kenyan Context discusses how women can participate in Kenya's petroleum sector through local content requirements. It identifies several areas for women's participation, including technical roles, investment, sourcing goods and services, workforce hiring and training, and research. It also provides recommendations to promote women's inclusion, such as establishing quotas, extending health and safety regulations, requiring gender-disaggregated employment data collection, and convening experts to address challenges women face in the sector. The document advocates for a long-term, multi-stakeholder approach combining top-down policy and bottom-up initiatives to change social norms and fully integrate women into the petroleum industry.

1. Local Content
How Can Women Plug Into the Petroleum
Sector?
By Laura Muniafu

2. Local Content
• Introduction to Local Content
• Areas women can plug in
• Factors that propel women to succeed in the industry
• Recommendations
• Conclusion

3. Introduction to Local Content
Definitions:
• Local content is based on creating
shared value, in that producer countries,
resource developers, their supply chain
and other stakeholders are encouraged to
work collaboratively.

4. Local Content: The Kenyan Context
• Definition of Local content in the petroleum bill:
The added value brought to the Kenyan economy from petroleum related activities
through systematic development of national capacity and capabilities and investment in
developing and procuring locally available work force, services and supplies, for the
sharing of accruing benefits
• Gender assessment:
The Petroleum bill states that during the development stage of Oil and gas, the company
should identify specific skills training programs and technical courses that shall directly
translate to the employment of citizens of Kenya and shall ensure occupational health and
safety requirements, fairness in gender practices, and career advancement opportunities

5. Areas Women
Can Plug in

6. Areas Women Can Plug in
• Technical
• Fixed Asset Investment
• Local Sourcing of Goods and Subcontracted services
• Hiring and training of national workforce
• Investment on R&D and National Institutions

7. Areas Women Can Plug in
Technical
• Driller/Drilling Engineer
• Reservoir Engineer
• Facility Engineer
• Tool pusher
• Mudlogger
• Well Engineer
• Completions Engineer
• Geologist (geophysicist and geochemist)

8. Areas Women Can Plug in
Fixed Asset Investment
• Land
• Offshore equipment (accommodation)
• Heavy machinery.

9. Areas Women Can Plug in
Local Sourcing of Goods, Subcontracted services, supplier development)
• Catering
• Housekeeping
• Supply of foodstuffs
• IT services for upstream, midstream and downstream
• Oilfield services (seismic survey, transport services, Downhole equipment, directional
drilling services)
• Civil engineering and civil construction.
• Petroleum engineering research and development
• Pipe laying

10. Areas Women Can Plug in
Hiring and training of national workforce
• Training the locals on both technical and nontechnical aspects of oil and gas.
.
Investment on R&D and National Institutions
• Funding oil and gas research institutions

11. Factors that propel women to succeed in the industry
• Visibility, leadership and political will to commit to change
• Combining top-down and bottom-up approaches between government and civil society
• Coordination across government at all levels as well as with non-petroleum institutions
• The participation of men as well as women in the change process
• Commitment to a long term vision, as changing entrenched societal norms and behaviors
occurs over long timeframes

12. Local content opportunities in the project life cycle

13. Recommendations
• Ensure women have a voice in community consultation, resettlement and compensation
through petroleum sector regulations that mandate their equal and meaningful participation;
and ensure legislative language does not inadvertently prohibit women from receiving
compensation.
• Specify and implement quotas at a legal and regulatory level to support the participation and
entry of women into the sector. For example, in local content requirements and petroleum
companies, especially for senior and operational level positions, as well as for educational
bursaries, training, and programs.
• Extend petroleum health and safety regulations to specify work places that are suitable for
women and to safeguard women from harassment and violence.
• Require government departments, agencies and companies within the petroleum industry to
record and publish data that is disaggregated by gender. For example, the numbers of women
and men employed, the roles that they fill, and their average salaries.
• Develop strong petroleum agency monitoring mechanisms, or independent monitoring
mechanisms, to ensure implementation of provisions aimed at supporting women, along with
clear actions to ensure compliance.

14. Recommendations
• Educational institutions should act as hubs to promote Women in Extractives /Petroleum
associations and networks and establish alumni mentoring networks for women working in the
petroleum sector.
• Require any legal and policy advice provided to Government to be gender responsive, through
clear drafting principles and qualitative monitoring and evaluation.
• Convene a working group of experts on women’s economic empowerment in the petroleum
sector, to discuss the challenges women face and the linkages between the petroleum sector
and other sectors.
• Develop government led, multi-stakeholder National Action Plans on Gender & petroleum,
working across government and with other sectors.
• Establish a cross-government forum or working group that guarantees the participation of
ministries responsible for gender, social affairs, labour and education in the formulation and
implementation of petroleum sector policy and legislation. Ensure that legislative and
regulatory provisions on gender and women in the petroleum sector align or signpost to
broader government initiatives on gender.

15. Conclusion
• The tide has turned in the new millennium and women are now sought to work in nearly
every aspect of today’s multi-billion dollar corporations.
• There are many areas where women can plug in in local content promotion.
• Many oil and gas companies are introducing new positions for locals to take up.

16. References
Invest in Africa
In Country Value / Local Content definition and global practises
Local Content Policies in the Oil and Gas Sector
ESTIMATING LOCAL CONTENT IN THE ENERGY
Local content: A guidance document for the oil and gas industry
Extractives Baraza: THEY HAVE A MINE OF THEIR OWN
Extractives Baraza: Kenya Local Content Exchanges
Petroleum bill

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