Tanzania
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Despite recent economic growth, Tanzania remains one of the world’s forty poorest countries. Concern Worldwide first began working in Tanzania in 1978. Our charity work there focuses on livelihoods and health, ensuring that people have dependable access to food and safe water.
Concern has been providing aid and relief in Tanzania for more than 30 years. We began working in the south central region of Iringa because poverty and HIV prevalence was so high and access to food was so poor.
Vulnerable regions
We have since moved into other areas of Tanzania in the northwest, west and south. These regions where we work are also characterised by debilitating poverty and vulnerability to drought, influxes of refugees, poor infrastructure and isolation.
Imminent plans
From 2011–2015, we hope to phase our work out of Iringa as poverty indicators have improved there. Instead, we plan to move into at least one new region where hunger, poor health, and social exclusion are increasingly widespread.
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Helping farmers
Combating hunger is one of Concern’s global strengths. In Tanzania, we help farmers to produce more food. We train farmers on new skills to boost their crop production and support them in accessing inputs such as fertiliser and seeds. Working in agriculture is not easy. Farmers are exposed to changing weather patterns and we are constantly learning how to mitigate the negative impacts of this as well as other risks. Reports from our programmes have shown that our progress is good; we will continue to work towards a vision of strong, healthy, and resilient communities. Read more about this.
Clean water: a basic need
Drinking clean water and keeping good hygiene practices are essential for good health, especially in tropical climates in developing countries. Our programme in the northwest of Tanzania is successfully supporting communities by giving them access to clean water, upgrading their toilets, and improving their hygiene practices. We select people to facilitate the groups and to advise the community on health and hygiene. Read more about this.
Gender equality
We believe that there can be no poverty reduction without gender equality, so we aim to include gender in all of our activities and programmes. What this means is that we work to break down cultural norms which often discriminate against women and girls through community sensitisation by encouraging women into leadership positions and by ensuring that they know their rights to productive resources. Read a blog about the spirit and resilience of Tanzania women.
Women’s rights
Women and other poor people are our main target group. We encourage them to gain access to productive resources such as land and property through a rights-based approach to programming. We train people on their rights and we help the government and other providers to be able to fulfil those rights by collaborating with them.
Making a stand
We advocate for the rights of the poorest people in Tanzania at a local level through village and district government structures. We aim to influence policy at the national level through forums and networks by using rights-based approaches.
HIV and AIDS
HIV and AIDS prevalence is stabilising in Tanzania. However, around 7% of the country is known to be infected and millions more may be undetected. Mainstreaming HIV and AIDS into all programme activities aims to educate, protect and care for people who are at risk of or affected by HIV and AIDS.
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