Support for Women in Agriculture and Environment (SWAGEN) is an NGO officially registered with the NGO Board, and incorporated as a company limited by guarantee. The organization’s Vision is, “All round development of the human being” and a Mission to, “Achieve equitable and gender sensitive social, economic and environmentally sustainable development that guarantees dignified lives for all.”
It works in ten countries within the Eastern Africa Region, to provide Ecosystem Based solutions for the challenges that plague our generation. SWAGEN works at the grassroots, among forest dependent Indigenous Peoples and Local Communities to promote agro-ecological technologies and practices, plant trees for food and Climate Mitigation, construct fuel efficient stoves, rain water harvesting facilities and transfer appropriate energy technologies such as solar at household level for Climate Change Adaptation to enhance community resilience. The organization promotes forest-based non extractive income generation. To this end, SWAGEN promotes use of modern apiary practices using modern Langstroth bee hives that do not use fire for harvesting.
SWAGEN participates in advocacy campaigns especially for Climate Justice, Gender Justice, Food Sovereignty in partnership with the Women’s Constituency and Farmers’ Constituency at Global Policy Spaces like United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC). As such, SWAGEN has no independent online links and resource materials at present. It works in partnership with the like-minded training Institutes like St. Jude Family Projects to organize for skills impartation.
