International Development Grant
Girls Reproductive Health Rights and Empowerment Accelerated in Tanzania (GRREAT)
Project Number: CA-3-P002735002
Status: Terminating
Country/Region:
Maximum Contribution: $1,000,000.00
Start Date: March 29, 2019
End Date: December 31, 2024
Duration: 5.8 years
Project Description
This project aims to empower and improve the sexual and reproductive health and rights (SRHR) and well-being of vulnerable Tanzanian adolescent girls through a multifaceted and comprehensive approach and by working with adolescent boys and girls parents communities and governments during the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic. Project activities include: (1) training health workers providing maternal health services in Infection Prevention and Control (IPC); (2) training 2 000 community health volunteers and 95 supervisors in Zanzibar to deliver COVID-19 safety messages; (3) supporting the procurement of IPC supplies for community health volunteers in Zanzibar; (4) recruiting 10 counsellors to provide information and counselling services to adolescents and youth on COVID-19 maternal health and COVID-19 family planning and COVID-19 and other basic prevention messages; and (5) working with C-Sema and the Ministry of Labour Employment Elderly Women and Children in Zanzibar to expand telephone-based counselling and awareness on COVID-19 focusing on adolescents.
Expected Results
The expected outcomes for this project include: (1) improved provision of youth and adolescent girls' use of gender-responsive adolescent-friendly SRHR and nutrition services; and (2) strengthened evidence base for more effective adolescent SRHR planning and implementation.
Progress & Results Achieved
Results achieved as of March 2022 include: (1) 63 211 men 18 150 women and 14 200 children including 173 hearing or visually impaired people reached with COVID-19 prevention messages; (2) more than 6 000 000 people reached with information on COVID-19 facilitating the vaccination of 27 771 people; (3) 227 033 children under 5 suffering from severe acute malnutrition screened leading 6 710 of them to be referred for treatment. This saved the lives of approximately 3 011 children who would have died without proper nutritional support and medical treatment; and (4) distributed 627 248 hygiene kits to poor adolescent girls providing them with laundry soap buckets and reusable sanitary napkins to ensure that the effects of the pandemic and the increased poverty of their families do not have negative impact on their ability to go to school or work during their periods.
Key Information
Executing Agency:
UNICEF - United Nations Children's Fund
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