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Working closely with local governments and communities, the USAID Tanzania Water Resources Integration Development Initiative (WARIDI) is helping Tanzania improve the management of its water resources, improve sanitation, create livelihoods in water and sanitation services, and promote resilient communities in the face of a changing climate.
On November 5, 2018, U.S. Chargé d’Affaires Inmi Patterson and Minister of State for Union Affairs and Environment January Makamba launched a five-year, $20 million USD activity to improve large-scale landscape management across western Tanzania. The Landscape Conservation in Western Tanzania activity, funded by the United States government through the U.S. Agency for International Development, is a collaboration with the Jane Goodall Institute (JGI).
Waache Wasome (“Let Them Learn”) is a five-year activity which aims to increase adolescent girls’ participation and retention in secondary school. Waache Wasome’s efforts are rooted in the principle of empowering girls to create and achieve goals for their future, while addressing the social/gender norms, economic barriers, and violence that constrain their ability to remain and excel in school.
The USAID Tusome Pamoja activity aims to improve the quality of early grade basic skills instruction, strengthen skills delivery systems, and increase engagement of parents and communities in education. The activity operates in five focus regions to target more than 1.4 million students in grades one through four, as well as 26,000 teachers.
Today, Terhi Majanen, Director of the United State Agency for International Development’s Economic Growth Office at the Embassy of the United States of America in Dar es Salaam, disbursed six grants worth $527,000 to small businesses and private organizations from Iringa, Mbeya and Zanzibar.
The U.S. Embassy’s Advancing Youth program supports activities that empower young people, ages 15-35, in rural Tanzania to enhance their employability, business savvy, leadership skills, health life skills and participation in civic life.
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