International Development Grant
Strengthening Tanzania's Primary Healthcare System – Technical Assistance Fund
Project Number: CA-3-P006840001
Status: Operational
Country/Region:
Maximum Contribution: $28,269,118.00
Start Date: March 29, 2021
End Date: December 31, 2027
Duration: 6.8 years
Project Description
The multi-donor Technical Assistance Fund aims to maximize the potential of the Government of Tanzania's Health Basket Fund. The Health Basket Fund which Canada contributes to through its $75 million Strengthening Tanzania's Primary Healthcare System for Women and Girls Project supports the primary healthcare elements of the Government of Tanzania’s Health Sector Strategic Plan V. The Technical Assistance Fund contributes to building the government’s capacity in 4 areas critical to the success and sustainability of the Health Basket Fund. These areas include primary healthcare financing primary healthcare quality of care climate-smart primary healthcare and evidence generation and use for primary healthcare. Project activities include: (1) providing technical assistance to the Ministry of Health to ensure harmonization integration and use of the Mama na Mwana client feedback mechanism for primary healthcare with particular attention to the input of women and adolescent girls and boys; (2) providing technical assistance to the Ministry of Health to develop a national capacity-building plan for primary healthcare leadership and health management. This includes evidence-based and gender-responsive planning budgeting monitoring and data use; (3) completing a Mid-Term Review of the Health Basket Fund integrating gender equality and environmental considerations; and (4) developing a National Roadmap for Implementation Research in primary healthcare to identify and address Health Basket Fund challenges and opportunities including those related to gender equality and environmental sustainability.
Expected Results
The expected outcomes of this project include: (1) improved use of quality gender- and adolescent-responsive primary healthcare services particularly by women adolescent girls and children. This includes sexual and reproductive health services and maternal newborn child and adolescent health services; and (2) strengthened public primary healthcare system accountability and responsiveness to needs of the poorest and most marginalized particularly women adolescent girls and children.
Progress & Results Achieved
Results achieved as of March 2025 include: (1) increased community-wide awareness of women’s and girls’ rights and the benefits of their economic participation reaching over 1 400 individuals in 6 communities. The project supported 12 community-based organizations (CBOs) to deliver 96 training sessions to local leaders on gender equality and human rights; (2) reviewed and adapted 40 course curricula using a gender equality lens resulting in the use of more inclusive language in course materials engagement of guest speakers from diverse and non-traditional backgrounds (i.e. women in car mechanics and men in nursing). The project also supported the creation of flexible pathways to accommodate different life circumstances such as caregiving responsibilities. It does so by engaging a multi-stakeholder review committee composed of representatives from the government partner Folk Development Colleges (FDCs) and national training and vocational institutes; (3) developed 20 and piloted 5 industry-aligned FDC course curricula that reflect a gender-responsive approach to technical and vocational education and training (TVET) which ensures that the needs of women and girls are taken into consideration. The courses include tourism food safety and quality solar electrification and dairy production and milk processing; (4) piloted 4 new short courses through CBOs covering food processing and value addition financial literacy and reuseable sanitary pad production; (5) trained 114 CBO and FDC tutors and technical staff (47 women and 67 men) to develop more impactful and effective lesson plans and align them with the designated learning modules; and (6) outfitted 12 FDC daycares with educational and care supplies and mobilized local support to fully renovate the centers to better support the children of young mothers enrolled in FDC courses ensuring that young mothers can continue their education.
Key Information
Executing Agency:
Colleges and Institutes Canada
Reporting Organization:
Global Affairs Canada
Program:
WGM Africa
Last Modified:
September 19, 2025
Development Classifications
DAC Sector:
Aid Type: Project-type interventions
Collaboration: Bilateral
Finance Type: Aid grant excluding debt reorganisation
Selection Mechanism:
Unsolicited Proposal