Tanzania
Context
Tanzania is the largest of the East African countries, with a population of 42.5 million. Despite its large lakes, many areas are very dry and cannot support agriculture. In rural areas, women and children can spend several hours a day collecting water and sanitation services are limited.
Only 54% of the population has access to improved water supplies and 24% have access to adequate sanitation.
On average, women and children spend over two hours a day collecting water, and up to seven hours in remote areas.
20,000 children die before the age of five each year in Tanzania due to diarrhoeal diseases.
What has WaterAid achieved?
- WaterAid is trialling a new type of low-cost pump which will solve the problem of emptying latrines in densely populated, unplanned areas.
- WaterAid has worked with six partner organisations to map and assess water access points in 55 Tanzanian districts.
- WaterAid supported the formation of The Tanzania Water and Sanitation Civil Society Network in 2008, which influences national commitments to water and sanitation.
WaterAid's programme work in Tanzania
WaterAid has worked with partners and communities in Tanzania since 1983 on practical, sustainable projects and influencing policy to encourage investment in these services.
In the past decade, WaterAid has expanded its work across five new areas and works with local partner organisations to identify the areas with the greatest need.
Tanzania: clean water, brighter futures This film, featuring a small community in central Tanzania, shows the economic benefits clean, safe water close to home bring a community.
|
Price points
- £4.40 could buy one bag of cement to make a latrine slab
- £40 could pay for a hygiene education banner
- £258 could pay for the training of a community health committee
- £632 could buy a water tank to serve 10 people
Case study
 |
Credit: WaterAid /
Marco Betti |
Zainabu Rama is a hygiene educator in the Singida District Tanzania.
I enjoy this because it is great to be able to educate fellow villagers. People in other villages respond really well and take the messages home. We can tell because they ask us lots of questions and ask for advice.
|
Tanzania Sources:
World Bank (2011) World Development Indicators database - databank.worldbank.org, WHO / UNICEF (2010) Joint Monitoring Programme (JMP) report 2010, UNDP (2011), Human Development Report 2011 NB. Official statistics tend to understate the extent of water and sanitation problems, sometimes by a large factor. There are not sufficient resources available for accurate monitoring of either population or coverage. Varying definitions of water and sanitation coverage are used and national figures mask large regional differences in coverage.
|
 |
|
What we do
20,000
