Project profile — Inclusive Health Services in Tanzania

The intermediate outcomes for this project include: (1) improved equitable utilisation of quality gender sensitive preventive, curative and rehabilitative services by socially vulnerable children, women and men; and (2) people living with disabilities, particularly vulnerable women and children, participate as equal members in society.

Results achieved as of the end of the project include: (1) all Comprehensive Community-Based Rehabilitation in Tanzania (CCBRT) heads of departments and 22 management staff participated in LEAN management training; (2) CCBRT’s new Strategic Plan (2013-2017) was put in place; (3) 717 people were trained to act as ambassadors for the fistula programme which helped refer 85% of fistula and cleft lip or palate patients to specialized health facilities; (4) in 2017 alone, a total of 15,000 children under the age of five received free treatments from CCBRT, including orthopaedic surgeries, burns, clubfoot, and 25,000 families were supported by Community Based Rehabilitation; (5) CCBRT beneficiaries received 70,532 eye consultations, 7646 eye surgeries, 427 Clubfoot surgeries and 1012 fistula surgeries), 1,329 Tanzanian clinicians were trained; and (6) 3,469 children gained access to mainstream or special needs education. These have contributed to improve the quality of preventive, curative and rehabilitative services for disabled and vulnerable Tanzanians, particularly women and children.