Women's Voice and Leadership - Tanzania - Tanzania Gender Networking Programme (TGNP)

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.