What We Do

Oxfam working with a partner RUDI have trained farmers in Shinyanga region on modern rice production techniques to increase their incomes. Photo: Bill Marwa/Oxfam

Oxfam has been working in Tanzania since the 1960s. Our teams are based in four locations (Mwanza, Dar es Salaam, Arusha and Kigoma).

Oxfam in Tanzania (OiTZ) strives to become an outward- looking organisation and catalyst for change at local, national and regional levels. Through its programs and partnerships, and by leveraging from past experience, strategic membership of networks and alliances, and long-standing good reputation in Tanzania, OiTZ can facilitate significant change to influence poverty reduction.

Our vision for Tanzania is: empowered citizens with reduced poverty, inequality and injustice where citizens, especially women and young people, have access to resources and have a good quality of life. People will be more aware of, and demand their rights to resources and essential services.

The Oxfam Country Strategy (OCS) 2015-2019 will see the consolidation and strengthening of our influencing work; improved documentation and publication practice; better supported strategic partnerships and collaborative approaches; embedded systematic learning; informed policy influencing at national level; and scaled-up digital technologies use.

The OCS aligns with the Tanzanian Government’s own development objectives, articulated in the Tanzania Development Vision 2025, and will bring OiTZ into alignment with the strategic ambition of the Oxfam Confederation and Vision 2020.

 

Oxfam is the lead agency in the provision of water, sanitation and hygiene promotion (WASH) services for the Burundian refugees in Nyarugusu and Nduta camps. Photo: Bill Marwa/Oxfam

Humanitarian Response

Since May 2015, Oxfam has been participating in addressing humanitarian needs of the influx of Burundian refugees that have been crossing into Tanzania due to pre and post presidential election violence that erupted in Burundi towards late April 2015. Despite on-going regional efforts to a peaceful...
The Female Food Hero is a national reality TV style competition which raises awareness in Tanzania of the many incredible achievements of its women food producers. Photo: Coco McCabe/Oxfam

Women's Empowerment

Oxfam in Tanzania observed that women’s rights coalitions are organizing around different causes such as prevention and responding to gender based violence, women’s property rights, education, youth’s and women leadership. The spaces organized and facilitated by Oxfam in Tanzania were meant to add...
Suzanne is a sisal producer from Shinyanga region in Tanzania. Photo: Bill Marwa/Oxfam

Tackling rural poverty

Oxfam has been working with small scale farmers, producers and processors in the Tanzania’s lake zone region to improve all stages of rice and sisal production and to find new markets and ultimately improve the lives of rice and sisal producers with a focus on supporting and training women,...
The Female Food Heroes is a national reality TV style competition which raises awareness in Tanzania of the many incredible achievements of its women food producers. Photo: Kwetu Studios/Oxfam

Our Campaigns

Oxfam in Tanzania campaigns to increase the meaningful participation of women and young people in decision-making; reduce violence against women; increase women’s access to sexual and reproductive health rights and services; and elevate women’s social, economic and political standing in society. '...
Integrating active citizenship approaches ‘animation’ into Oxfam in Tanzania’s programs. Photo: Bill Marwa/Oxfam

Governance and Transparency

Integrating active citizenship approaches ‘animation’ into Oxfam in Tanzania’s programs has contributed to an increase in the number of citizens especially women participating and engaging in addressing issues that are most relevant to development in their communities. Animators are increasingly...