Strategies for reducing the differences in development?

Who is trying to reduce differences?

GOVERNMENT ORGANISATIONS

UNITED NATIONS

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.

Some of the NGO’s in Tanzania

And some from the United Nations?

Signs found in Kigoma – agencies work with poor rural communities

Who is trying to reduce differences?

In Kigoma...

• Vaccinated over 14 million children, saving an estimated 15,000 lives.

• Trained 1000’s of health care workers to run health programmes in villages.

Source: http://www.alertnet.org/thefacts/reliefresources

Boy getting immunised against Measles

How does immunising children help reduce the disparities within Tanzania? What indicators will it effect?

The Red Cross-Working to improve Health…

• Helps communities improve school facilities.

-training teachers, providing materials, organising educational events (e.g. Camps)

• In Bubango (Kigoma) 3 new classrooms have been built.

UNICEF - Working to improve education…

How does improving education help reduce the disparities within Tanzania? What indicators will it effect?

• $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.

Enterprise Works an NGO working to improve food production… (irrigation) (started 2008)

How does irrigation help the farmers improve production? What wider impacts will this have on development?

• 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?

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.)

How does providing cheap loans to small businesses help reduce the disparities within Tanzania? What indicators will it effect?

This small shop started with a micro enterprise loan. It means that Mama Sania does not have to rely on her crops for income.

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

• Continue with web links exercise next period.