Women Fund Tanzania – Empowering Local Women Heroes

Welcome!
We Empower Local Women Heroes

We believe in:

Recognition of human rights for women regardless of class, ethnicity, sexual orientation and age

A culture of acknowledgement, respect and encouragement

Leadership based on feminist values and principles

Transparency, accountability and integrity

Professional excellence

A shared WFT agenda through participation, consensus building and collective ownership

As a women’s rights fund and the first of its kind in Tanzania, we focus in empowering local women by funding critical women’s rights issues.

Some of the issues we focus on include violence against women with a particular focus on sexual corruption/sextortion issues; economic rights of women including extractive industries; environmental justice including raising voices of women in addressing climate change, land grabbing, land rights and water issues; networking and coalition building strategies to strengthen women’s movement(s) in Tanzania with a particular focus on young women and minority groups (women living with disabilities, HIV-AIDS, elderly women, etc.); political and leadership rights of women with a particular focus on young women; documenting her-stories of women’s constitutional rights, next to their participation and representation in and post elections.

Young and upcoming, WFT is developing and positioning itself as an innovative grantmaker in Tanzania operating at the cutting edge of social justice and women’s rights philanthropy

Quick Facts

110+ Grants disbursed
18 regions covered
65+ local organizations as coalition members
2 Coalitions formed

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THE LATEST FROM WFT

July 12, 2017

Published by WomenFundTZ at July 12, 2017

#CASESTUDIES

As part of its efforts towards addressing the challenges faced by women and girls in rural areas, Women Fund Tanzania funded in 2015 a local based women initiative through CEWOD (Women Centre for Communication and Development) to run a program titled “Fostering Inclusiveness of Grassroots Women in the Electoral process”.

June 12, 2017

Published by WomenFundTZ at June 12, 2017

#CASESTUDIES

WAJIKI received a grant of Tsh 7,000,000 from Women Fund Tanzania which assisted them to organize a series of workshops to raise awareness of men and women including officials from the nearby police gender desk, and street leaders in the surrounding communities of Mwananyamala.

November 10, 2016

Published by WomenFundTZ at November 10, 2016

National Convening on Post Election Process, Progress, Gaps and Prospectives for the Future

On fifth 5th November, Tanzanians celebrated one year of the new government, popularly known as the 5th presidential phase .The Women Coalition for Constitution, Elections and […]