• Tanzania
  • Resources
  • Capacity Building
  • Empowerment

Quick information guide

Why women empowerment?

Compared to men, Tanzanian women are subjected to various setbacks that affect their ability to conduct development activities perfectly.

  • Limited access to social justice
  • Limited access to social services such as education, health and water
  • Low participation in economic development
  • Gender based violence incidences such as sexual harassment and domestic violence
  • Limited access to financial services

Women empowerment actors have put in place women empowerment programmes that include soft and hard skills:

  • Digital literacy
  • Financial inclusion
  • Livelihood skills
  • Human rights and civil society
  • Environmental stewardship
  • Micro enterprise
  • Women’s health

Women empowerment programmes in Tanzania

Women economic empowerment in Tanzania is vital as more than 50.56% of the population is made of women who are responsible for daily food security and other social economic activities.

It is critical to empower women economically for national economy to grow at a desired pace. Women are often deprived of means of production and this leads to a generalised development issue for the whole country.

Different development actors have taken cognizance of this issue and have set up empowerment programmes.

National Economic Empowerment Council (NEEC)

supports women to access justice in the formal court 

Private Agricultural Sector Support (PASS) Trust

PASS empowers business women the agricultural sector

ZANZIBAR SEAWEED CLUSTER INITIATIVE (ZaSCI)

provides skills and technical supports to seaweed farmers in Tanzania.

FURSA KIJANI PROGRAM

equips the youth with sustainable livelihood skills

Women Empowerment in Zanzibar (WEZA)

lends to women and build their entrepreneurial capacity through cooperatives

THE BAREFOOT COLLEGE-ZANZIBAR

works with marginalized women at the grass root level to build their ability to engage and benefit from socio-economic opportunities

Tanzania Horticulture Association (TAHA)

TAHA empowers women entrepreneurs who are involved in production of horticultural food products

ZANZIBAR ECONOMIC EMPOWERMENT FUND (ZEEF)

ZEEF empowers women and youth through provision of financial services, loans for business start ups