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The Modern Energy Cooking Services (MECS) Programme, an eight-year research and innovation initiative funded by the UKAid (FCDO), has supported various research and market-strengthening efforts in Tanzania, resulting in an increasingly positive enabling environment for eCooking. Consequently, the Tanzanian Ministry of Energy, FCDO, and MECS are delivering an ambitious programme of activities to strengthen the market and scale up the availability and benefits of eCooking to the Tanzanian…

UNICEF Tanzania is implementing an integrated adolescent girls’ programme that focuses on the empowerment of adolescent girls through ending child marriage using a multi-sectoral approach. It aims to create a model for adolescent girls’ empowerment so that they can be key actors in the development of Tanzania, which is envisioned in UNICEF Tanzania’s new country programme 2022- 2027 as well as in national priorities such as the National Accelerated Action and Investment Agenda…

Vi Agroforestry has, through sustainable agriculture and land management (SALM) and agroforestry, been promoting a diversification of species planted and animals reared on farmland. This methodology and the diversification have had an impact on biodiversity, both through direct diversification of crops but also indirectly through promoting an environment where species of animals, insects, and plants can thrive. Through storytelling and observations, Vi Agroforestry has established…

Vision impairment and blindness remain pressing public health challenges in Tanzania. The Tanzania National Blindness and Visual Impairment Survey indicates that approximately 1.1% of the population is visually impaired, with cataracts emerging as the primary cause of blindness. In response to this critical issue, the Fred Hollows Foundation, in collaboration with the Australian Government through the Australian NGO Cooperation Program (ANCP), initiated the project titled “Increasing…

UNICEF Tanzania is implementing an integrated adolescent girls’ programme that focuses on the empowerment of adolescent girls through ending child marriage using a multi-sectoral approach. It aims to create a model for adolescent girls’ empowerment so that they can be key actors in the development of Tanzania, which is envisioned in UNICEF Tanzania’s new country programme 2022- 2027 as well as in national priorities such as the National Accelerated Action and Investment Agenda…

Launched in December 2022, AfriFOODlinks is an EU-funded project that aims to improve food and nutrition security while delivering positive outcomes for climate and the environment and building social and ecological resilience in 65+ cities in Africa and Europe. Coordinated by ICLEI Africa, the project gathers 35 partners across the African and European continents and aims to improve food security and urban sustainability in African cities by: (i) applying an urban food systems lens…

In response to the pressing challenges associated with child domestic work in Ghana and Tanzania, Anti-Slavery International, in partnership with LAWA-Ghana, Challenging Heights (Ghana), and the Tanzania Child Domestic Workers Coalition, set an intervention, “Many Hands Make Light Work: Eliminating Slavery in Child Domestic Work,” to collaboratively address the challenges. This 33-month-long project has its sights set on liberating from the clutches of exploitation and abuse, ensuring that…

The Karl Kübel Stiftung für Kind und Familie and Christian Social Services Commission, hereafter called “the consortium,” are planning to initiate a new project to expand child protection in Tanzania. The project will be based on the results of the project “Improvement of Child Protection in Tanzania” (P4421), which is currently being implemented by the consortium. To support the proposal development process for the new project, the consortium looked for a consultant to conduct an evaluation…

MECS is taking different initiatives to support the transition of low-income economies from biomass to the use of modern energy cooking services (i.e., cooking with electricity, gas, or renewable energies). It calls for a greater focus on modern energy as the source of clean cooking and has evidenced that cooking with modern energy using energy-efficient appliances can be cost-effective, particularly for urban communities. To understand how people of different generations learn to cook…