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ABOUT NGSEN

The National Gender and Sustainable Energy Network (NGSEN) was established in 1998, through a national workshop organized by TaTEDO and ENERGIA of the Netherlands. The aim of the network is to promote women’s involvement in the energy sector in Tanzania.

 

The National Gender and Sustainable Energy Network (NGSEN) is an organization which links energy partners with gender and energy in Tanzania. The network emerged to fill the gaps and challenges entrenched in the gender and energy relationships for joint action. This relationship and its consequences on development are inadequately understood by many including policy and decision makers. Through networking and collaboration with other institutions with similar vision on energy and gender at national and international levels, NGSEN anticipate bringing the issues to light for appropriate action to guarantee sustainable energy for sustainable development of both men and women. The network is part of the international network (ENERGIA) hosted at ETC Netherlands and a regional network (African Gender and Sustainable Energy Network - AGEN) both working to advocate for gender, women’s empowerment and sustainable development

 

Vision

Men and women are accessing sustainable energy through equitable social, economic and cultural power relations in communities.

 

Mission

To engender energy through advocacy, capacity building, awareness raising, information sharing and increase women’s participation, control, ownership and benefits on sustainable energy technologies and services.

 

Goal

To empower both women and men in order to actively participate in engendering energy for sustainable development.

 

Objectives

The specific objectives of the Network are;

  • To help women contribute to and participate more effectively in energy policy and planning processes by a variety of means

  • Increase the awareness of all professionals in the energy and related sector on benefits accrued from and the need to mainstream gender approach, so that it becomes integral and inherent in every energy planning decision;

  • Consciously, seek advice both from women and men in energy planning and policy formulation to respond to gender gaps along different hierarchies in the energy sector ;

  • Increase the participation of men and women in order to improve their status in the energy sector at all levels and in particular to support and encourage the sustainable modern energy development.

  • To promote the creation, maintenance and use of an environmentally-friendly energy technologies to reduce intensives of labour to women in the community

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