WaterAid's partners in Tanzania

The Anglican Church, one of our partners in Tabora, helps to teach about good hygiene alongside water and sanitation projects.

Credit: WaterAid / Caroline Penn

WaterAid's formal governmental partners in Tanzania are those of Dodoma and Tabora Regions, Arusha Region's Kiteto District, the Temeke District of Dar es Salaam, Siringa's Town Council, plus the multilateral groups UNICEF, and the UK's Department for International Development (DFID).

The Anglican Church remains a partner in Tabora, while relatively new partnerships have been forged with indigenous NGOs in both Tabora (MAMMADO) and Kiteto (KINNAPA), and with a community group (PEVODE) in Dar es Salaam.

The Anglican Church of Tanzania

The Church has an extensive network of 19 dioceses throughout Tanzania, and more than one and a half million baptised members. It recognises the fundamental role of Water, Sanitation and Hygiene promotion in achieving its 'mission of health and development' and from the time of WaterAid's first involvement in the country has co-operated in providing a range of relevant services.

MAMMADO

MAMMADO stands for Majina Maendeleo Dodoma (Water and Development in Dodoma). From an initial idea in 1998, strongly supported by WaterAid, most of Dodoma's existing civil society organisations were involved in the formal setting up of MAMMADO in late 2000, since when it has developed convincing local credibility.

KINNAPA

Now they have water for bricks women are constructing a building for a maize mill with help from partner KINNAPA.

Credit: WaterAid / Jim Holmes

A young, strongly community based NGO, KINNAPA stands for the initial six founding villages; Kimana, Kibaya, Njoro, Ndaleta, Namelock and Partimbo. In the local language, Kimaasai, it also means 'we support each other'!

Besides water, sanitation and hygiene, it is involved in environmental and natural resource issues, gender and women and children centred concerns, education and training initiatives, and livestock and agricultural development.

PEVODE

PEVODE (People Voice for Development) is the umbrella organisation developed by seven communities in the Temeke area of Dar es Salaam successfully developing their own water supplies. WaterAid is currently supporting moves to broaden its functions to include effective advocacy of the community's overall needs, in the face of extreme poverty.