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Tanzania

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With a array of natural sights, Tanzania is a tourist magnet. Revenues from the travel industry, as well as gold mining, have spurred high overall economic growth rates. However, Tanzania remains one of the world’s poorest countries in terms of per capita income.

TANZANIA: Promoting Healthy Diets and Physical Activity through Advocacy for Regulatory and Policy Reforms and Community Education

This sub-project is a human rights-based and gender-sensitive advocacy and awareness intervention at the national level, which seeks to promote healthy diets and physical activity in Tanzania. The Tanzania Women Lawyers Association (TAWLA) seeks to strengthen collaboration and coordination among key national stakeholders in advocating for healthy diets and physical activity promotion through policy and legal reforms.

TANZANIA: Advocacy for National Policy Reforms on Healthy Diets

This sub-project facilitates and acts as catalyst for national and international collaboration among lawyers, policy makers, researchers, civil society actors and communities to create a supportive regulatory and fiscal environment that promote healthy diets. TANCDA is using participatory and human rights-based approaches to strengthen community awareness about and promote advocacy for two main policy areas on restrictions on advertising and marketing of foods and non-alcoholic beverages to children, and nutrition labelling, including Front of Pack Labelling.

Call for Concept Notes - Tanzania

IDLO is implementing a project in Tanzania and four other countries that aims to strengthen the country’s capacity to promote healthy diets and increase physical activity for the prevention of non-communicable diseases (NCDs). Program activities focus on capacity building for more effective regulatory and fiscal interventions, supporting the development and use of relevant research, and convening multi-stakeholder dialogues and collaboration between civil

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Key Initiatives

  • As part of IDLO’s continuous commitment to accountability and results-based management, IDLO is pleased to share this Evaluation Brief for the project, "Integrating Legal Empowerment and Social Accountability for Quality HIV Health Services for Adolescent Girls and Young Women". The evaluation has been conducted by independent evaluation experts, supervised by IDLO’s Evaluation Unit. This exercise utilized a theory-driven, mixed-method approach, in line with the IDLO Evaluation Guidelines and OECD DAC standards.
  • As part of IDLO’s continuous commitment to accountability and results-based management, IDLO is pleased to share this Evaluati
  • Promoting Healthy Diets and Physical Activity in Tanzania
  • Non-communicable diseases (NCDs) kill 15 million people between the ages of 30 and 69, and over 86 per cent of these "premature" deaths occur in low- and middle-income countries.The economic impact, including loss of income by people harmed by NCDs, the costs of treatment, and the impacts on families threaten international development. Through regulation and fiscal reforms, countries can promote healthy diets, physical activity, and other initiatives reducing the prevalence and harms of NCDs. 
  • One of the challenges in scaling up HIV-related legal services is the limited number of knowledgeable, skilled and committed lawyers to provide such services. Part of the solution therefore lies in building the capacity of law schools to ensure law graduates are equipped with the necessary knowledge and skills to support human rights-based approaches to HIV. Many universities, including in East Africa, offer clinical legal education programs to give students direct experience of providing legal information to clients.
  • Adolescent girls and young women account for 71 percent of new HIV infections among young people in sub-Saharan Africa. They are more vulnerable to HIV because they are often subjected to a range of gender and age based biases, discrimination and violence, including sexual assault, forced marriage and trafficking. Despite growing HIV-related responses, they and their communities most often do not have the capacity, voice and power to hold these service providers accountable for improved delivery of quality HIV-related services.
  • Mozambique, Tanzania and Zambia are rich in forests, land and minerals, but have struggled to derive development benefits from these natural resources. Although land use investments can activate economic, social and environmental progress (such as local employment creation, wealth generation and infrastructure establishment), positive development outcomes are not automatic.
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