Member Spotlight: Genoveva Mashenene (Tanzania)
IAIA member Genoveve Mashene of Tanzania shares what impact assessment means to her and what she enjoys about working for a government entity.
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My name is Genoveve Mashene, and I’m from Tanzania. I work for the National Environment Management Council.
How is being a member of IAIA valuable to you?
Being a member of IAIA is really valuable to me because it helps me to build my professional development through international training, calls, webinars, and attending international conferences like this. Different stakeholders around the world are here to network, learn, and gain skills and knowledge. That is a takeaway to my home country, of which impact assessment is one of my institutional mandates.
What does impact assessment mean to you?
Impact assessment is the systematic tools that are used to assess social and environmental impacts of a project or development. It helps to identify positive and negative impacts that a project or development can cause and appropriate mitigation measures can be proposed. It also helps in the decision making, that either a certain project can be implemented or not.
What is one thing you enjoy about your current job/role?
One thing I enjoy about my job is security. Work for the government is secured. It’s not like private, that someone can come and tell you you’re fired. Also I get to grow because I get the opportunity to attend different local and international training courses which builds my professional capacity.
