Projects
TYEGD implements both ongoing and completed projects that address real community needs across gender equality, youth empowerment, agriculture, and environmental sustainability, combining capacity building, service delivery, and community engagement to deliver practical, scalable, and sustainable solutions that strengthen livelihoods and systems across multiple regions.
TYEGD has achieved measurable impact by reaching over 19,826 farmers with improved agricultural practices, expanding access to SRHR and life skills for more than 1,460 adolescents, integrating gender programs in 57+ schools, and economically empowering over 8,375 women, demonstrating its ability to deliver sustainable, community-driven development outcomes across Tanzania.
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CURRENT PROJECTS
Technical Support for Digital Climate Advisory & Resilient Seeds
- Location: Mara, Songwe, Mbeya and Arusha regions with focus on smallholder farmers
- Duration: 2025-2026
- Direct Reach: 800 smallholder farmers
- Target group: smallholder farmers across Mara, Songwe, Mbeya and Arusha regions
- Partnership: TYEGD in collaboration with Weather Impact, TARI and Esoko
- Component: Part of the Global Center on Adaptation’s support to the World Bank-funded Tanzania Food Systems Resilience Program (T-FSRP)
- Funding Source: Global Center on Adaptation through World Bank
Project Data
- 800 smallholder farmers reached and interviewed to inform digital climate advisory solutions and resilient seed systems
- Conducted a scoping study on seed systems to strengthen production and distribution of climate-resilient seeds.
- Enhancing Digital Climate Advisory Solutions (DCAS) to provide smallholder farmers with timely, localized climate information
- Targeting smallholder farmers nationwide, with emphasis on those most vulnerable to environmental shocks
- Integrating digital advisory services with seed system strengthening to ensure adoption of climate adaptation strategies
- Building institutional and technical capacity for scaling climate-smart agriculture
Achievements
- Improved access to digital climate-informed advisory services for farmers
- Strengthened seed systems to ensure availability of climate-resilient varieties
- Enhanced farmer capacity to adopt climate adaptation strategies
- Established a framework for scaling DCAS and resilient seeds across Tanzania
- Positioned TYEGD and partners as leaders in climate-smart digital agriculture
Women in Coffee Project
- Location: Tarime District, Mara Region, Tanzania
- Duration: 2025-2026
- Target group: women and girls
- Reach: 870 women and girls directly engaged
- Reached 3,480 indirect beneficiaries, including family members of direct participants and residents in surrounding villages through community awareness campaigns
- Funding Source: Women Win through the FREE Grow Fund
Project Data
- 500 women smallholder farmers engaged in Nyandage, Nyamombara, Mangucha and Kegonga villages in Tarime District
- 17,000 certified Arabica Compact seedlings distributed to 159 women farmers, schools and cooperatives.
- 277 women trained in Good Agricultural Practices (GAPs) out of 500 smallholder farmers engaged
- 30 women formally joined cooperatives, with 130+ pre-registered
- 340 girls supported through school-based coffee income initiatives
Achievements
- Women gained ownership of productive assets and verifiable technical skills.
- Climate-smart advisory services introduced via mobile phones, providing timely forecasts and farming guidance
- Cultural barriers addressed through local theatre campaigns in Kurya language, boosting cooperative membership
- Schools integrated coffee farming as a sustainable income stream for girls’ education
- TYEGD strengthened its credibility in agriculture and built scalable partnerships with government and cooperatives
- Improved land rights awareness and advocacy, enabling women to claim space in decision-making and cooperative membership
COMPLETED PROJECTS
Youth Employability & Self-Reliance Program (YES Program)
- Location: Bunda District, Mara region
- Duration: 2026-2027
- Direct Reach: 10 girls currently enrolled
- Target Group: Youth aged 14–25, including out-of-school youth, early-career youth, young mothers, job seekers and aspiring fashion entrepreneurs
Project Data
- 10 girls enrolled in specialized tailoring and entrepreneurship training
- Beneficiaries trained in technical tailoring skills and business entrepreneurship
- Program designed to equip youth with micro-business skills for self-reliance
- Focused on fashion enterprise development, enabling participants to start and grow profitable tailoring businesses.
- Inclusive of vulnerable groups such as young mothers and out-of-school youth
Kilimo Thabiti Project
- Location: Bunda, Butiama Districts)
- Duration: January 2024 – March 2025 (Pilot Phase)
- Target: Youth and women farmers
- Direct Reach: 2,656 farmers registered (exceeding target of 2,400)
- Indirect Reach: 7,968 through shared SMS advisories and GAP Training
- Funding Source: Weather Impact through Fund for Innovation in Development (FID)
Project Data
- 2,656 farmers registered for agro-weather SMS services (F1,218/ M1,438)
- 541 farmers trained in climate-smart practices and agro-weather use
- 30 citizen scientists trained to collect rainfall and soil moisture data, strengthening localized forecasts
- 556 households surveyed in baseline and endline assessments to measure impact.
- Weekly SMS advisories delivered, including 7-day forecasts, extreme weather alerts and crop-specific farming advice
- Tailored advisories for cassava and maize developed and disseminated in collaboration with TARI experts
Achievements
- Farmers reported clear, useful and trustworthy information, leading to improved confidence in managing climate variability
- Adoption of new farming practices based on SMS guidance, including better planting schedules, fertilizer use, and harvest timing
- Strengthened gender inclusion, with women increasingly involved in decision-making and land use
- Established a citizen science network that provided real-time rainfall data, improving accuracy of forecasts
- Built a scalable digital advisory model, integrating weather data, agronomic schedules and farmer profiles
- Consortium partners engaged: TYEGD (gender & community mobilization), TARI (agronomy), Esoko (ICT dissemination), Weather Impact (forecast modeling)
Mtoto Kwanza Project
- Location: Bunda District, Mara region
- Duration: 2023
- Partnerships: TYEGD, AICT Mara and Tanzania Early Childhood Development Network (TECDEN)
- Direct Reach: Children, parents, teachers and community members engaged in child protection and ECD awareness
Project Data
- Conducted community conferences and awareness campaigns on child protection, nutrition and early childhood development (ECD).
- Engaged parents, teachers and local leaders to strengthen accountability for child rights
- Promoted public demand for ECD services and improved delivery at community level
- Built school and community capacity to identify and respond to child protection concerns
- Strengthened collaboration between faith-based organizations, civil society and national networks for ECD advocacy
Achievements
- Increased community awareness on the importance of child protection and nutrition
- Strengthened local demand for ECD services, ensuring children’s rights are prioritized
- Enhanced multi-stakeholder collaboration between schools, parents and national networks
- Positioned TYEGD as a credible partner in child protection and early childhood development advocacy
Zijue Fursa Conferences
- Location: University of Dar es salaam
- Duration: 2022
- Partnership: TYEGD in collaboration with SISI Tanzania
- Direct Reach: Youth participants from university, schools and communities
- Funding Source: Own source
Project Data
- Conducted a series of conferences focused on youth empowerment and opportunity awareness
- Informed youth about economic and employment opportunities linked to the crude oil pipeline project between Tanzania and Uganda.
- Engaged adolescents and young adults in interactive sessions, discussions, and presentations
- Built awareness on rights, roles and responsibilities in accessing national development opportunities.
- Strengthened partnerships with local institutions and stakeholders to support youth inclusion in large-scale projects
Achievements
- Youth gained knowledge and confidence to explore opportunities in the oil and energy sector
- Increased awareness of national and regional development projects and their potential benefits for young people
- Strengthened collaboration between civil society and youth networks to promote inclusive participation
- Positioned TYEGD as a credible facilitator of youth empowerment and opportunity awareness
African Cassava Agronomy Initiative (ACAI) Project
- Location: Bunda, Butiama and Musoma Rural Districts, Mara Region, Tanzania
- Duration: 2020-2023
- Target group: youth and women farmers
- Direct Reach: 15,500 youth and women farmers engaged
- Indirect Reach: 46,500 across Bunda, Butiama and Musoma rural districts
- Funding Source: International Institute of Tropical Agriculture (IITA) through Bill & Melinda Gate Foundation funding
Project Data
- 15,500 (M 9,212/F 6,287) youth and women farmers reached across Bunda, Butiama and Musoma rural through training sessions, mobilization events, exhibitions and community meetings
- Profiled 10,625 cassava farmers in Bunda, Butiama, and Musoma rural districts through extension agents through INSTY data systems for agriculture and remote extension services
- Trained a total of 101 (80M & 21F) extension agents working with Cassava farmers producer groups/ associations, Lead farmers as ToT on Akilimo contents
- Conducted a ToT training to 41 (36M&5F) extension agents on dissemination/MEL framework for tracking dissemination and data upload to EAs working with cassava farmers producer groups/associations
- Facilitated the formation of 293 farmer groups in Bunda, Butiama and Musoma rural districts
- A total of 10 Woman and Youth Farmer Groups were linked and benefited to access loans from Bunda and Butiama District council at a very minimal interest rate to support their agricultural production activities.
- A total of 60 Lead Farmers from Bunda, Butiama and Musoma rural have been trained on AKILIMO contents to support farmers and farmers groups in their locality
- Facilitated the signing of an MoU between 11farmers’ groups and cassava buyers within Bunda and Butiama district council
- Introduced digital advisory services (VIAMO 123, ARIFU chatbot, AKILIMO SMS) to deliver timely agronomic information.
Achievements
- Strengthened market linkages by engaging food processors (KIPIPA, Misenani and 8 local processors) to explore cassava value chain opportunities.
- Farmers gained technical capacity in Good Agronomic Practices (fertilization, weed management, site selection and improved varieties).
- Enhanced financial inclusion through dialogues with Vision Fund Tanzania, SIDO and district councils to provide loans for farmer groups.
- Introduced digital advisory services (VIAMO 123, ARIFU chatbot, AKILIMO SMS) to deliver timely agronomic information.
- Established demonstration plots as living classrooms, enabling farmers to compare traditional vs. improved practices.
- Promoted youth and women participation, ensuring inclusivity in cassava commercialization.
Kijana Tuongee Project
- Location: Bunda District, Mara region
- Traget: Adolescents and youth in schools and communities
- Duration: 2017-2019
- Funding Source: Own resources
- Direct Reach: Adolescents and youth in schools and communities
Project Data
- 731 adolescents and youth reached through schools and community forums
- Conducted training sessions, debates and awareness campaigns on rights, roles and responsibilities.
- Strengthened youth leadership and civic participation through capacity-building activities
- Organized community dialogues and school-based forums to promote accountability and social responsibility.
- Provided practical experiences for youth to influence positive change in their communities.
- Organized community dialogues and school-based forums to promote accountability and social responsibility
- Empowered youth with practical experiences to influence positive change in their communities
Achievements
- Adolescents gained confidence and leadership skills to act as agents of change
- Increased awareness among youth about their rights and responsibilities in society
- Strengthened youth participation in community development and decision-making processes
- Built a foundation for youth-led initiatives addressing social, cultural and economic challenges
Elimisha Project
- Location: Bunda District, Mara Region, Tanzania
- Duration: 2015-2016
- Target: Adolescents
- Direct Reach: 500 adolescents from three schools
- Funding Source: Own source
Project Data
- 579 adolescents empowered with knowledge and skills to challenge GBV and promote equality
- Established school gender clubs to lead discussions and debates on gender equality and GBV.
- Trained teachers, parents, and school committees on GBV awareness, prevention and response.
- Supported schools to develop codes of conduct and complaint handling mechanisms
- Strengthened school guidance and counseling units to provide safe spaces for students
- Organized sports, games and debate competitions to promote positive attitudes and gender equality among adolescents
Achievements
- Increased awareness of GBV as a human rights concern within schools and communities
- Strengthened institutional capacity to assess and respond to GBV cases
- Fostered collaboration between teachers, parents and government representatives to protect youth
- Created a platform for adolescent voices to influence attitudes and policies on gender equality
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