Project profile — Women's Voice and Leadership - Tanzania - Women Fund Tanzania (WFT)

The expected outcomes for this project include: (1) improved management and sustainability of local women’s rights organizations in Tanzania; (2) enhanced performance of women’s rights organizations’ programming and advocacy to advance gender equality and empower women and girls; and (3) increased effectiveness of sub-national and national women’s rights platforms, networks and alliances to affect policy, legal and social change in Tanzania.

Results achieved as of March 2020 include: (1) the Women Constitution, Elections and Leadership Coalition, led by Women Fund Tanzania (WFT), worked with the Office of the Registrar of Political Parties to revise the Political Parties ACT of 1992 and insert progressive provisions, which increased the meaningful representation of women within political parties and Tanzanian politics in general; (2) in collaboration with the project partner Tanzania Gender Networking Program and local women’s rights organizations, the Women’s Election Manifesto was drafted, which is a national agenda to bring attention to women’s issues and promote them within political parties. The Manifesto served to improve party platforms and to increase women’s participation in the October 2020 national elections; (3) WFT created an anti-sextortion campaign bringing a taboo subject to national prominence, and compelling policy-makers to address sextortion and end the impunity enjoyed by the perpetrators; (4) capacity building for 33 local women’s rights organizations was conducted to improve reach and quality of programming; and (5) the WFT Grant Manual was revised to increase fairness, transparency and accountability when giving grants to local women’s rights organizations.