About AWEIK – Aweik

About Us

Who We are

Association for Women in Extractives and Energy in Kenya (AWEIK) is an organization that provides women with opportunities for equitable professional and economic development within Kenya’s extractives industry.

We awaken women’s potential in oil, gas and mining industries through lobbying, branding, member capacity development and business development services

VISION STATEMENT

To provide women with opportunities for equitable professional and economic development within Kenya’s extractives industry.

MISSION STATEMENT

To open up business opportunities through leadership, professional development opportunities, and knowledge transfer for Kenyan women in the extractives value chain in Kenya, the region and globally.

Our Core Values

Care for the Future

Strive for a world where women are financially free and have a state in dynamic procedure.

Inspired to lead

We recognize and support, harness the diverse talent of women to be future leaders.

Orientation for quality

We create and apply world-class innovation. We tune in, learn, and search out the best thoughts

Integrity

We are straightforward with ourselves as well as other people. We satisfy the most noteworthy moral guidelines.

Desire for higher standards

We drive for positive outcomes with vitality and a need to keep moving forward while searching for new opportunities

Sisterhood

Promoting sisterhood, empathy, care and mutual support for each other

Our Goals

Promote

Promote and assist the participation of, and benefit by, women in the extractives value-chain in Kenya.

Highlight

Highlight and address socio-economic challenges that confront women in the extractives sector including by supporting women’s organizing, movement-building and solidarity.

Lobby

Lobby and advocate for women participation and empowerment in the extractives sector, in accordance with the provisions of the Constitution of Kenya, 2010, towards short and long term reforms and structural, legal, institutional and policy changes.