Partners

Institutional partners

GENSEN OR GEN Senegal is a country network under the Global Ecovillage Network (GEN) Europe, Middle East and Africa Regional office. It is an institutional partner of the Senegal Ecovillage Microcredit Fund (SEM), and has an agreement with the United States Peace Corps Senegal to welcome Peace Corps volunteers into GENSEN ecovillages, to work with SEM microcredit and other projects

Funders, Program and Project Partners

1999 - Present> Babajide Foundation

2000 - 2005 > UNICEF, Dakar, and Government of Senegal ministries engaged in early child development

2000 - 2004 > The World Bank (Fiduciary Fund of the Norwegian Government)

2001 - Present> Gobal Ecovillages Network (GEN)

2001 - present> The Sarnat/Hoffman Family Foundation

2002 - 2003> USAID Project Dyna Entreprises

2004 - Present> Global Environmental Fund (GEF)

2004 - 2006>UNESCO, Dakar, Early Childhood Education Department

2006 - 2007> British Embassy

 

Accademic partners of the GENSEN Living & Learning Center

  • Living Routes Study abroad in Ecovillages Program
  • University of Massachusetts, Amherst
  • Gaia Education, Global Ecovillages Network (GEN)
  • Tufts University Friedman School of Nutrition Science and Policy, publisher of first EcoYoff newsletter
  • UNESCO Chair for integrated management and sustainable devleopment of coastal areas and small islands, Faculty of Arts and Social sciences (UCAD)
  • Institut de Santé et de Développement (ISED), Faculty of Medicine (UCAD)
  • Diplôme d'Etudes Approfondies de Nutrition et Alimentation, UCAD
  • Laval University Department of human nutrition and consumption, Faculty of Agricultural Sciences and Food, Quebec, Canada
  • Africa Consultants International (ACI) Baobab Center, Dakar
  • Kalamazoo College Study Abroad Program