WHAT WE DO …
1. Intervention Programs
** Intervention Programs – We implement intervention programs in social protection specific for empowering women and girls. Here is an overview of some of our interventions and projects:
** General Capacity Strengthening – We conduct capacity strengthening through training junior researchers and interns within and outside Tanzania on: conducting research, writing grant proposals, gender and women/girls rights, community/reproductive health, project management, monitoring and evaluation, organizational behavior and leadership.
2. Research, Monitoring & Evaluation
** We conduct short and long term research and consultancy work in the field of social protection, with particular focus on gender equality and economic empowerment of women and girls in Tanzania and beyond.
** We conduct applied social research including; needs assessment, project development and management, monitoring and evaluation, feasibility studies, operational research, and academic research.
** We carry out impact evaluations, particularly for social protection program interventions.
** We collaborate with local, national, regional and international individual researchers and organizations in the research for socio- economic transformation of the poor and vulnerable.
3. Policy Influencing
** We use the evidence we generate to influence policy associated with social protection, women and girls through policy forums and dialogues, round table discussions, and continuous engagement of key policy makers in the research and interventions we do.
** We disseminate findings to a wider community of stakeholders and influential actors including local communities, the media, development partners, social protection programs implementors, women and girls activists and the government at all levels.
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WHY WE DO IT…
The central focus of our interventions is to create and enhance gender equality and the economic empowerment of women and girls. We borrow from the International Center for Research on Women – (ICRW) (2011) definition of “Women’s Economic Empowerment”:-
** Women’s ability to succeed and advance economically through acquiring the right skills and resources to compete in markets and gaining equal access to economic opportunities;
** Women’s power to make and act on economic and socially related decisions (including participation in leadership), which goes hand in hand with control of resources and benefit from profits at individual, household and community levels.
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HOW WE DO IT …
We do our work through engaging and empowering families, boys/men and communities to participate in the process. This facilitates positive behavior change particularly against the negative cultural norms that oppress women and girls and pull them back in the effort to advance economically, socially and politically
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