National Gender and Sustainable Energy Network (NGSEN)
Network for Engendering Energy Services in Tanzania
OUR VISION
Men and women are accessing sustainable energy through equitable social, economic and cultural power relations in communities
OUR MISSION
To engender energy through advocacy, capacity building, awareness raising and information sharing; to increase women’s participation, control, ownership and benefits from sustainable energy technologies and services.
NGSEN at a Glance
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 to bring the energy and gender issues to light for appropriate action to guarantee sustainable energy for sustainable development of both men and women.
Services
NGSEN is committed to empower women and men by enhancing accessibility, control and ownership of energy through transformation of power relations, culture and structures around energy. To achieve this, it requires transformational process, which will lead to changing people’s mind-sets, attitudes and beliefs. NGSEN practices synergy principle, which states that “the whole is greater than the sum of its parts” meaning that working together we achieve more than working in isolation or as individuals. It is intention of the network to establish shared purpose among members, cross boundaries to collaborate with other players in the environment, and consciously manage value among network members.