Ideas on how to reduce differences in development in Tanzania

1. Strategies for
reducing the
differences in
development?

2. Who is trying to reduce differences?
GOVERNMENT ORGANISATIONS
 UNITED NATIONS

3. Why are these groups helping?
Tanzania has more NGO’s than any other country
in East Africa (over 2000)… Why?
• Tanzania is one of the poorest countries in the
world.
• Tanzania is stable – no civil wars, little
corruption, friendly and welcoming.
• The government is seen as trying to help
themselves.

4. Some of the NGO’s in Tanzania

5. And some from the United Nations?
Signs found in Kigoma – agencies work with poor rural communities

6. Who is trying to reduce differences?

In Kigoma...

7. The Red Cross-Working to
improve Health…
• Vaccinated over 14 million
children, saving an estimated
15,000 lives.
• Trained 1000’s of health care
workers to run health
programmes in villages.
Boy getting immunised
against Measles
Source: http://www.alertnet.org/thefacts/reliefresources
How does immunising children help reduce the disparities
within Tanzania? What indicators will it effect?

8. UNICEF - Working to improve education…
• Helps communities improve
school facilities.

-training teachers, providing
materials, organising
educational events (e.g. Camps)
• In Bubango (Kigoma) 3 new
classrooms have been built.
How does improving education help reduce the disparities
within Tanzania? What indicators will it effect?

9. Enterprise Works an NGO working to improve
food production… (irrigation) (started 2008)
• $500,000 has been spent to date.
• Small low cost pumps are being
provided and a company is being
taught how to produce them.
• Output has increased in the area
by 22% and in the dry season
farmers are earning twice the
price for their crop.
How does irrigation help the farmers
improve production? What wider impacts
will this have on development?

10. NGOs providing micro-loan (enterprise) schemes
to improve small businesses.
NGOs e.g. Finc Tanzania are offering people the chance to borrow
a small amount of money with only minimal interest rates to start
a business.)
• These Village Banks loans are mostly to rural women.
• They must save a small % of the money needed
themselves, then the money they pay back is used for
other loans.
• Businesses that have started include: Shop owners,
hair dressers, furniture makers, selling handi-crafts,
growing mushrooms…
Why target women?

11. This small shop
started with a micro
enterprise loan. It
means that Mama
Sania does not have
to rely on her crops
for income.
How does providing cheap loans to small businesses
help reduce the disparities within Tanzania? What
indicators will it effect?

12. POINT TO CONSIDER…
Give a person a fish and they’ll eat for a day,
teach a person to fish and they’ll eat for a lifetime

13. • Continue with web links exercise next period.