Tanzania

Concern Worldwide works in five regions in Tanzania. Our work focuses on livelihoods and health, ensuring that people have dependable access to food and safe water.

Despite economic growth of approximately 7% in the early part of last year, Tanzania remains one of the world’s forty poorest countries. More than one-third of the population lives below the poverty line. Recent rising food and fuel prices had a negative impact on the economy.

In this context, we continued to focus our efforts on: improving incomes and access to food; water and environmental health; HIV and AIDS and good governance. Our work with refugees finished in September 2008, following the closure of Lukole camp earlier in the year.

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Clean water

34,897 people here benefited from our water and environmental health work. We also helped provide safe water, sanitation services and vector control for 25,450 refugees in the Lukole camp. 

Hygiene and sanitation

We introduced hygiene and sanitation services in schools. By helping to raise community awareness on how poor sanitation leads to the transmission of disease, the spread of many diseases can now be prevented. As well as improving latrines, we trained hygiene promoters on participatory communication skills and used a peer-to-peer approach for children, spreading hygiene messages and good practice.

Agriculture

We worked with government agriculture departments helping improve incomes and access to food. We trained 224 community-based trainers, while our farmer field schools provided training for producing quality seed. This helped 2,428 individuals learn new skills and farming techniques. As a result, 10,215 poor and vulnerable households have adopted improved farming methods, while 8,267 households are cultivating an improved or new crop variety.

We have provided training on the contents and meaning of various land acts and land-related laws. Consequently we are supporting communities in the formulation of land use plans, land committees and tribunals.

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