FAIR4ALL Agric & Mining Value Chains SA The Power of Voices Partnership (PvP) is an influencing programme with the Netherlands Ministry of Foreign Affairs. The programme  FAIR for ALL led by Oxfam Novib is five year long initiative implemented jointly with consortium members Huairou Commission, SOMO and Third World Network-Africa (TWN-Africa) aimed at supporting and collaborating with people’s rightful demands towards companies, governments and multilateral organizations for economic, social and environmental justice, promoting global trade and value-chains that are fair for all. The main focus of the FAIR for ALL programme proposal is to support and strengthen CSOs to play their diverse roles; as educators, mobilizers, creators and watchdogs to make trade and value chains FAIR for ALL.

In South Africa FAIR for ALL programme aims at a strengthened civil society capable of creating space and mobilizing people to achieve structural and gender transformative changes to South Africa’s economic model and legislative frameworks to end gendered inequalities and contribute to more sustainable and inclusive mining and agricultural value chains that deliver wealth and benefits for all. The South Africa FAIR for ALL programme will to implemented by SOMO, Oxfam South Africa and partners, and Third World Network-Africa and partners.

The South Africa FAIR for ALL programme will be implemented by Oxfam South Africa, Third World Network-Africa and partners. Oxfam South Africa willfocus on the following, 1) Support local civil society, especially women and their communities, to collect evidence on rights abuses (and more specifically research linkages between bulk production and rights abuses) and to get redress or compensation such as access to free or affordable health care, an end to evictions, and women’s ownership of dignified housing on farms. 2) Support civil society to engage with government to ensure a responsible private and financial sector that values the common good and upholds women’srights – including rights related to owning SMEs, dignified work and living wages – and environmental rights. 3) Support women-owned SMEs, particularly small-scale agricultural producers and artisanal miners, to come together in cooperatives, networks and movements to co-create alternative business models (for SMEs) that contribute to women’s economic empowerment and 135 Universal Periodic Review of South Africa. 4) Supporting local civil society and network building to advocate for the government to reform the mining sector, promoting alternative more sustainable economic models and new types of job.

These objectives will be achieved by strengthening local civil society in South Africa through, • Building organizational development to strengthen women and their collective power.• A better understanding of obstacles and opportunities for women in agricultural value chains. • Sensitizing women in value chainsabout their rights and increasing their negotiating and advocacy skills to effectively claim those rights.

To achieve main objectives of the programme, Oxfam will collaborate with the following organisations, •Centre for Competition, Regulation and Economic Development (CCRED): has nine years’ experience building knowledge through rigorous evidence-based research on key issues of competition, regulation, industrial development and the conduct of large firms, specifically related to regional development in Southern and East Africa. • The Graça Machel Trust: engages directly with women to empower them. Amplifies women’s movements by harnessing and promoting their contributions to the economic, social, and political development of Africa. • Tshintsha Amakhaya (TA): means ‘improving livelihoods’ in isiZulu and isiXhosa; a civil society alliance of ten NGOs with longstanding experience in land and agrarian reform,labour rights of farm workers, and supporting rural social movements. They have supported rural people’s struggles through joint campaigns on access to land, gender equality and climate justice.