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%)

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

This project is part of Canada’s Women’s Voice and Leadership Program. It supports local and regional women’s organizations 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 will build the capacity of 100 WROs to develop their leadership and technical skills, increase their knowledge of feminist principles, strengthen their ability to provide political education, and enhance strategic abilities. This aims to effectively disseminate transformative feminist principles in their communities to promote positive change. The project will also seek to promote a network and build an alliance 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 production and use of knowledge by Tanzanian women and women’s organizations that strengthen evidence-based decision making to advance women’s rights.

Results achieved at the end of the project (December 2023) include: (1) successfully formed 27 joint alliances to influence policy changes on gender equality and women’s and girls’ rights at the national level; (2) increased the ability of 127 WROs to engage in networks/alliances/platforms and movements to influence women’s rights policies, legal and social change; (3) supported 71 Knowledge Centers to address key gender issues, engage with local government, seek justice, and promote economic welfare for marginalized and vulnerable groups; (4) completed 4 transformative feminist studies undertaken by women and WROs within Tanzania Gender Networking Programme (TGNP’s) networks and coalitions; (5) strengthened capacity of 102 WROs, groups, networks, coalitions, and individuals to access up to date information, evidence and cases on women and girls gender equality and rights; and (6) conducted 33 feminist participatory analyses to generate evidence for policy engagement on gender and women’s rights’ issues.

• Proactive disclosure