Scaling up Family Planning in Tanzania
- P Project/Program
A Active
Key Information
This is a national programme to scale up access to family planning across Tanzania. Specific activities will include: • Outreach work in rural and urban areas as well as in Tanzania’s refugee camps and host communities. • Specific work to improve access to family planning as well as sexual and reproductive health information to youth, people with disabilities as well as services for victims of sexual violence. • Procure family planning commodities, strengthen the supply chain, and train of public health providers
Lead Implementing Organization(s)
Location(s)
Sub-Saharan Africa
United Republic of Tanzania
Government Affiliation
Government-affiliated programYears
2017 - 2024
Partner(s)
Not applicable or unknown
Ministry Affiliation
UnknownCOVID-19 Response
Not changedGeographic Scope
NationalMeets gender-transformative education criteria from the TES
UnknownAreas of Work Back to Top
Education areas
Attainment
- Primary completion
- Primary enrollment
- Primary to secondary transition
- Secondary completion
- Secondary Enrollment
Other
- Remote Learning
Other skills
- Rights/empowerment education
- Social and emotional learning
Quality
- School-related gender-based violence
Cross-cutting areas
- Adolescent pregnancy/childbearing
- Early/child marriage
- Empowerment
- Gender equality
- Social and gender norms and beliefs
- Violence (at home, in relationships)
Program participants
Target Audience(s)
Girls (both in school and out of school), Mothers, Youth
Age
Not applicable or unknown
School Enrolment Status
Some in school
School Level
- Lower primary
- Upper primary
- Lower secondary
- Upper secondary
Other populations reached
Not applicable or unknown
Participants include
- Displaced/refugee - External (from other countries)
- Displaced/refugee - Internal (from other areas of the same country)
- Migrants from other countries
- People with disabilities
Program Approaches Back to Top
Health and childcare services
- Sexual and reproductive health services (including family planning)
Policy/legal environment
- Advocating changes to existing laws/policies
Teaching
- In-service teacher training – gender-responsive pedagogy
- Pre-service teacher training – gender-responsive pedagogy
Tutoring/strengthening academic skills
- Literacy - in the classroom
- Literacy - outside the classroom
- Numeracy - in the classroom
- Numeracy - outside the classroom
Program Goals Back to Top
Education goals
- Improved academic skills (literacy and numeracy)
- Improved critical thinking
- Improved social and emotional learning/skills and mindsets
- Increased school completion (general)
- Increased school enrolment (general)
Cross-cutting goals
- Changed social norms
- Improved critical consciousness
- Improved sexual and reproductive health
- Improved understanding of sexual harassment, coercion, and consent
- Increased agency and empowerment
- Increased knowledge of rights
- More equal power in relationships
- More equitable gender attitudes and norms
- Reduced intimate partner violence