GEENET is a coalition of Women, Women’s Groups and Organizations working to promote Gender Equality and empower women by increasing their participation in decision making processes and in extractive sector governance. Based in Mubende District Central Uganda, GEENET is working to promote gender equality and women’s rights in natural resource governance. By recognizing the critical role that women can and should play in extractive governance and raising awareness of the many barriers that continue to stand in their way, GEENET seeks to advance opportunities for women’s leadership in a sector where they often gain least for example through
employment opportunities and bear the greatest cost of negative social and
environmental impacts.