Our mission
Empowering emerging producers in the Global South to secure equitable development and navigate a just energy transition through a unique, producer-led model.
We help our countries achieve better technical and economic outcomes from the petroleum sector, ensuring that resource development serves as a bridge to a sustainable future rather than a barrier.
Our unique approach
We don’t dictate policy; we facilitate the “policy labs” where national strategies are forged.
A Trusted Space: We provide an informal, commercial-free environment where governments can frankly share successes and failures without external pressure.
Balancing Trade-offs: Rather than promoting one-size-fits-all solutions, we help officials weigh the risks and opportunities of different policy paths.
Country-Led Solutions: We believe that peer-to-peer exchange produces practical, fit-for-purpose solutions that are far more implementable than externally-driven mandates.
The Producer-Led Difference
Technical assistance is often driven by a pre-set agenda shaped by donor interests. NP4SE is bottom-up:
Practitioner-Driven: Our topics are chosen by the officials who face these challenges daily. We are a network of practitioners, not consultants.
Shared Ownership: We don’t just deliver training; we co-design it. Member countries are the owners of the process, ensuring the solutions are politically and economically viable on the ground.
A User-Owned Cooperative: By shifting to a membership-dues model, we have ensured that our accountability is directly to the governments we serve.
How we work
Neutral Convening
A safe, non-commercial space for frank exchange.
Inter-Agency Labs
Bringing Energy, Environment, and Finance ministries together to align national strategy.
Peer-to-Peer Mentorship
Directly pairing producers to share practitioners’ experience.
Just-in-Time Support
A technical Help Desk that responds to live regulatory and negotiation challenges.
Our values
Producer-led
Officials from emerging producer countries participate in project design and delivery, which builds State capacity and increases the relevance of our programmes.
Peer-to-peer
What makes this group special and unique is its peer-to-peer learning and experience sharing.
Coordinated
We bring together climate policy makers, environmental regulators, petroleum policy makers and regulators, finance officials and state owned companies for joint discussions, enabling more effective policy-making and implementation.
Fit for purpose
Our recommendations are focused on appropriate practice, which is fit-for-purpose, produces rapid results and makes incremental improvements to governance.
Sustainable
We want our member countries to protect their environment and forge diversified, sustainable economies.
Accountable
By increasing knowledge of all stakeholders, we support accountability and more realistic expectations regarding the windfalls from the sector.
Our history
2012: Founded as the ‘New Producers Group’ by Chatham House, NRGI, and the Commonwealth Secretariat.
2016: Launched landmark “South-South” mentorship programmes (e.g., Ghana-Tanzania).
2022: Completed a 10-year independent evaluation confirming our unique value.
2024: Established as an independent charity: New Producers for Sustainable Energy.
