BRAC Maendeleo Tanzania takes a participatory, community-based, and inclusive approach to designing context-specific, impactful programmes. Our interventions in urban, rural, and refugee settings prioritise the equitable participation of all groups, particularly women and youth. We work directly with communities, keeping their voice and their story at the centre of our programmes.
At present, 55 branches have been established in 18 districts of the country.
Social Development
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Financial Inclusion
OUR IMPACT
Data Reporting Period:
January 2018 to June 2021
COUNTRY SITUATION
Tanzania is one of the countries with a very young population, with one-third of it comprising adolescents and children. It is estimated that the country is home to 12 million adolescents (10-19 years) who face numerous risks associated with household and community-level poverty. The risks include violence, early marriage, sexually transmitted infections to HIV (Source UNICEF Tanzania).
Access to early childhood education between the ages of 3 to 5 is still a challenge, especially in marginalised communities. Public schools with a fee-free education do not yet incorporate classes for children under-five which poses a challenge for many families with no funds to access private early childhood development centres. While access to secondary education in Tanzania has increased tremendously due to the Government’s Fee-Free Basic Education Policy between 2015-2018, the secondary education system still experiences a high drop-out rate, half of whom are girls.
It is estimated that about 35% of the population in the country is unable to access basic needs including energy services. Available data reveals that marginalised communities spend about 35% of their household income on energy. Consequently, the lack of access to modern energy services creates a vicious cycle of poverty for rural communities due to continued limited production opportunities and social facilities.
According to the World Bank, more than half of the population in Tanzania do not have access to financial services. People living in poverty are further deprived from access to financial services, particularly those living in rural and hard-to-reach areas.
OUR APPROACH
BRAC Maendeleo Tanzania takes a participatory, community-based, and inclusive approach to designing context-specific, impactful programmes. Our interventions in urban, rural, and refugee settings prioritise the equitable participation of all groups, particularly women and youth. We work directly with communities, keeping their voice and their story at the centre of our programmes.
OUR PROGRAMMES
Agriculture, Food Security and Livelihood
WESolVE The WESolVE [Women Entrepreneurship through the Solar Value chain for Economic development in Tanzania] project aims to reduce unemployment and create economic opportunities for women, and to provide access to clean energy, especially for rural Tanzanians. BRAC Tanzania is working in partnership with Solar Sister, a non-profit organisation that trains and supports women to deliver clean energy to rural communities together with Signify. Coffee Value Chain Development Since 2007 we have implemented various projects aimed at increasing production of food and income through smallholder farmers by providing training, capacity building and ensuring supply of quality agricultural inputs such as seeds, fertilisers, pesticides, and feed for livestock along with access to markets. Currently we are working with a consortium of partners towards the main objective of contributing to an inclusive and sustainable development of the coffee value chain for enhanced incomes and improved nutrition status of smallholder coffee farmers in the regions of Ruvuma, Mbeya and Songwe regions of Tanzania.
Education
Early Childhood Development Our Early Childhood Development (ECD) programme caters to children aged 3-5 years from low-income families in the Dar es Salaam, Tanga, and Mbeya regions. The BRAC Play Lab project is designed to address the critical gap in ECD for children and their parents and caregivers, incorporating elements of social and emotional learning and identity awareness, using a low-cost, high-impact approach. We are currently expanding the programme to establish an additional 30 ECD centres in public school settings in Dodoma and Dar es Salaam regions. In response to COVID-19, BRAC piloted innovative remote learning approaches to support children’s education during the lockdown and closure of schools with its radio-based ECD programme. Alternative Education Pathway Under our Education programme, we provide a second-chance to adolescent girls to get access to formal secondary education or vocational training through the Accelerated Learning Programme approach. We also support out-of-school girls by providing them with livelihood, vocational, and financial literacy training, and access to custom microloans, creating a platform for them to empower themselves financially and socially.
Microfinance
Founded in 2007, BRAC Tanzania Finance Limited is the largest microfinance institution in Tanzania. It’s mission is to provide a range of financial services responsibly to people at the bottom of the pyramid. It particularly focuses on women living in poverty in rural and hard-to-reach areas, to create self employment opportunities, build financial resilience, and harness women’s entrepreneurial spirit by empowering them economically.Read More →
Health
Water and Sanitation In 2018, we implemented a research project on Safeguarding Potable Water Provisioning to Urban Informal Settlements “The Last 100 meters” in collaboration with Lancaster University of UK and a network of institutions including the University of Manchester, the University of Dhaka, Ardhi University, CSE, WaterAid and DSK. The research was funded by the British Academy through its Global Challenge Research Fund. The 16 months research project addressed a critical challenge about how to transform water and sanitation infrastructure and practice in a relatively small space leading to measurable improvements to quality of water and sanitation management for poor urban people.
Youth Empowerment
Our Empowerment and Livelihood for Adolescents (ELA) model, under the Youth Empowerment programme, is designed to empower adolescent girls and young women between 13-19 years. ELA supports participants with life-skills, livelihood training, vocational training and startup kits to start small-scale businesses. It is also a platform that provides adolescents and young women out of school with safe spaces through our “ELA clubs”. In the “Skills for Their Future” project, secondary school girls pursuing science subjects receive digital literacy and entrepreneurship skills. Under the “Goal” project, adolescent girls are provided with employability skills through the use of different sports and games.
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OUR STORY
All people need is the opportunity to realise it.
Our story began in a small village in Bangladesh in 1972. 50 years later, BRAC is the largest NGO in the world with roots and origins in the global south. What began as relief work, deepened and broadened into long-term investment in human potential.
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BRAC TANZANIA
NATAI Plaza
Plot No. 17, Light Industrial Area
Mikocheni, PO Box: 105213
Dar es Salaam, Tanzania
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T: +255 746 985 281
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E: info.tanzania@brac.net