International Development Grant
Owning their reproductive health choices: Tanzanian women and girls decide – program 2018 to 2022
Project Number: CA-3-P002901002
Status: Terminating
Country/Region:
Maximum Contribution: $6,600,000.00
Start Date: December 02, 2020
End Date: August 31, 2022
Duration: 1.7 years
Project Description
The project aims to reduce unintended pregnancies and improve women and girls’ access to youth friendly life-saving reproductive health services. This includes modern contraceptives and comprehensive reproductive health services. Project activities include: (1) providing personal protective equipment to centres and outreach teams; (2) sensitizing communities on family planning and the coronavirus (COVID-19); and (3) continuing to provide safe sexual and reproductive health services. The targeted COVID-19 response allocation allowed Marie Stopes Tanzania to ensure ongoing delivery of sexual and reproductive health services. Personal Protection Equipment was distributed to service providers community health workers and support staff keeping them safe to provide services. This additional contribution allowed MST to continue to provide health services during the COVID-19 pandemic and contributing to the end of project results.
Expected Results
The expected outcomes of this project include: (1) Increased access and use of quality family planning (FP) and other integrated sexual and reproductive health (SRH) services among women and girls in Tanzania and (2) improved capacity of public-sector providers to deliver comprehensive sexual and reproductive health services by women and girls in Tanzania especially modern family planning and youth-friendly services.
Progress & Results Achieved
Results achieved at the end of the project (December 2022) include: (1) provided comprehensive quality Family Planning (FP) services to 693 407 clients (605 494 women and 27 913 men). This helped to generate 2 207 394 couple-years of protection (CYP) preventing an estimated 1 740 maternal deaths 989 447 unintended pregnancies and 263 081 unsafe abortions; (2) successfully reached 75 152 adolescents of 15 to 19 years of age (66 512 women and 8 640 men) with sexual reproductive health services; and (3) trained over 113 government health care providers across 44 government facilities to deliver FP services in rural and difficult-to-reach areas.
Key Information
Executing Agency:
Marie Stopes Tanzania
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:
Department-Initiated