Background information

Tanzania Gender and Sustainable energy network (TANGSEN) is a professional network advocating for women empowerment and increased access to modern energy technologies and services in Tanzania. The network is non-governmental, nonprofit making, non-political, and gender-sensitive. The network was established in 1998 through the support of ENERGIA and TaTEDO as an informal gender advocacy network of the profession.

In 2009 the network was registered as National Gender and Sustainable Energy Network (NGSEN) under the society Act 2004 in the Ministry of Home Affairs. Now the network is a compliant of the NGO Act of 2008 under the name “Tanzania Gender and Sustainable Energy Network (TANGSEN)”