Advancing opportunities for women’s leadership in natural resource governance

GEENET recognizes 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. GEENET also implements
actions to explore opportunities for increasing women’s effective participation and voice
in decision making processes about whether and how extractive revenues are allocated
in local and national budgets.