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Gender and Energy Network, Ghana

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Areas of expertise & Fields of activity:	Gender Issues and Advancement of Women: Advocacy and outreach Capacity building Education and training of women Human rights of women Indigenous women Women and health Women and the economy Women and the environment Sustainable Development: Capacity-building Climate change Energy Gender equality Health Major Groups Rural Development Sustainable development for Africa Technology
Geographic scope:	National
Country of activity:	Ghana
Millennium Development Goals:	Promote gender equality and empower women Improve maternal health Ensure environmental sustainability Develop global partnership for development
Mission statement:	Geda Ghana aims to build greater awareness among governments and the international community about the importance of gender issues in energy planning and policies. In addition, Geda Ghana aims to reflect this awareness in new and concrete commitments and actions by governments and other development actors to mainstream gender considerations into energy decision making. Geda objectives include training and organizing women to become energy technicians to operate and maintain equipment, use developed technologies to create sustainable rural industries, reach out and undertake policy advocacy, create awareness, train and network with other organizations in the energy sector. Also, Geda works to link women with international agencies to improve themselves economically and technically. Primary Initiatives, Target Populations, and Scope of Work: Geda Ghana has networked with many organizations and government and donated or sponsored improved energy resources projects such as: improved stoves, improved fish smokers, coalpots and liquefied petroleum gas (LPG), solar energy stoves, jatropha oil extraction, etc, to women to help eliminate the negative effects of smoke, drudgery, respiratory diseases and strong heat that affect women's health and body. Geda has undertaken pilot demonstration units to develop marketable and appropriate energy-efficient, gender-sensitive technologies. Women entrepreneurs have been helped to build confidence and improve their marketing strategies through training. Members of Geda, Ghana undertake sensitization and educational fora, with other gender networks in Ghana to aimed at creating awareness and motivating and encouraging men in particular, government and public policy to be involved issues of energy that affect women. Many cultural taboos, such as men not providing budgets for household energy use are discussed, in addition to demonstrations of improved energy technologies that help alleviate problems associated with cooking to provide knowledge on the benefits of using them. Research has been conducted by members of Geda Ghana, to find out the most appropriate improved cooking technologies women prefer in conducting their small businesses of fish smoking and frying, sale of cooked food, oil extraction, sheabutter production, etc. Micro-credit organizations have been consulted to help provide credit to enable women to purchase, maintain and use improved cooking technologies to eliminate smoke and other problems associated with using biomass. Energy sector organizations have produced many improved cooking technologies, using solar, renewable energy and jatropha oils.Geda Ghana would like to share experiences and stories on the impact of improved cooking technologies to members of the Partnership at conferences, training sessions for women and to invite others in the partnership to share skills, research findings and other projects that would be beneficial to Geda and the Ghana as a whole.
Year established:	2000
Organizational structure:	President National Focal Point Person Organisational Point Persons/Research department Capacity Building and Publications Coordinator
Number and type of members:	Over 10 organizations representing NGOs, Research Insitutions, Energy Insitutions make up GEDA membership Examples of organisations below: Centre for Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR, Ghana) Crop Research Institute Ministry of Education Science Teaching and Mathematics Education (STME) Girls Clinic Red Cross Ministry of Food and Agriculture Ghana Education Service Christian Mothers Association Food Research Institute World Vision
Affiliation with NGO networks:	ENERGIA, Partnership for Clean Indoor Air (PCIA), Global Alliance for Clean Cookstoves (GACC), Global Energy Practitioners' Network
Funding structure:	Product sales and business services Foreign and international grants

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