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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
angle-left Women Empowerment in Zanzibar (WEZA)

Women Empowerment in Zanzibar (WEZA)

ABOUT WEZA

In 2016 TAMWA in collaboration with the Milele Zanzibar Foundation(MZF), through the Department of Economic Empowerment, have come up with Women Empowerment in Zanzibar (WEZA II) Project with the aim at raising the standard of living of women by encouraging them to start small projects as well as form entrepreneurial groups for the production of various products.

Through the WEZA II Project, which was implemented from January 2016 to June 2019, MZF was able to reach 280 groups of 6,000 people who were empowered and prospered from the poverty line.

These entrepreneurial groups produce a variety of products such as cosmetics, handbags, poultry herding, soap making and other products, which are already registered as well as licensed to trade and production of products from relevant authorities such as the Business and Property Registration Agency (BPRA) and Zanzibar Food and Drug Agency (ZFDA).

TAMWA and MZF are now preparing for WEZA III with the aim at reducing the poverty and improving the social justice of women in Zanzibar

Services Provided by WEZA

 

  1. Savings and Loans
  2. Leadership and Management
  3. Simple financial Methods
  4. Income generating activities

 

Eligibility criteria

 

  • Must be woman aged 18-45
  • Must be a woman in need
  • Must be in group of 15-20 people
  • Reside in the same village/shehia

Public Events

 

The MZF participate in Trade Exhibition inside and outside the Country

 

Contact Details

 

Address: P.O. Box 933 Mbweni, Zanzibar, Tanzania

Phone: +255 772 229997

Email: info@mzfn.org

Website: www.mzfn.org
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