Project profile — Women's Voice and Leadership - Tanzania - Tanzania Gender Networking Programme (TGNP)

• Tanzania (100.00%)

• Government And Civil Society, General: Women's rights organisations and movements, and government institutions (15170) (100.00%)

• Participatory development and good governance (significant objective)
• Climate change mitigation (not targeted)
• Nutrition (not targeted)
• Gender equality (principal objective)
• Youth Issues (not targeted)
• ICT as a tool for development (not targeted)
• Urban issues (not targeted)
• Disaster Risk Reduction(DRR) (not targeted)
• Disability (not targeted)
• Climate Change Adaptation (not targeted)
• Trade development (not targeted)
• Children's issues (not targeted)
• Desertification (not targeted)
• Indigenous Issues (not targeted)
• Environmental sustainability (cross-cutting) (not targeted)
• Biodiversity (not targeted)

This project is part of Canada’s Women’s Voice and Leadership Program, which supports local and regional women’s organisations and networks that are working to promote women’s rights, and advance women’s empowerment and gender equality in developing countries. This is done by supporting their activities, building their institutional capacity, and promoting network and alliance-building as women’s rights and feminist organizations are critical agents of change. The Program also responds to the globally recognized, significant gap in funding and support to women’s rights organizations and movements around the world. The project has two components, implemented by two Tanzanian women’s rights’ organizations (WROs), the Women’s Fund Tanzania and the Tanzania Gender Networking Programme (TGNP). This component implemented by the TGNP aims to reach over 100 national, regional, district and local WROs in Tanzania. TGNP’s focuses on capacity building for WROs, developing their leadership and technical skills, knowledge of feminist principles, political education and strategic abilities, in order to disseminate effectively transformative feminist principles in their communities to promote positive change. TGNP also works to promote network and alliance-building to strengthen their voices and support systems, by bringing together dozens of national and sub-national organizations across Tanzania to advance key rights issues.

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 2023 include: (1) 6 platforms convened to enhance inclusive collaboration and collective social action across the women’s movement in Tanzania; (2) the 27 WROs participating in these 6 platforms reported an increased ability to organize, coordinate and build consensus to influence key policy, legal and social change to advance women and girls’ rights and empowerment, and perceived their collective actions to be effective; (3) 2 transformative feminist studies and 13 feminist participatory analyses conducted in collaboration with TGNP’s networks and coalitions of WROs to generate evidence for policy engagement on gender and women’s rights issues; and (4) 57 WROs, groups, networks, coalitions, and individuals reported increased capacity to access up to date information, evidence and cases on women and girls gender equality and rights, and increased ability to produce quality evidence for advocacy.

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