National Strategy for Gender Development

The National Strategy for Gender Development (NSGD) is a step forward among other things towards laying foundation in promoting gender equality and equity in Tanzania.
The NSGD is a product of participatory broad based consultation, which involved a wide range of stakeholders.
The aim of the NSGD is to consolidate and speed up implementation of the Women and Gender Development Policy, which strives to redress gender gaps and inequalities between men and women. It also aims to guide implementers to incorporate gender concerns into their policies, plans, strategies and programmes with a view to implementing commitments at international, regional and national levels.
The goal of the National Strategy for Gender Development is to achieve gender equality and equity in Tanzania as stipulated in the National Constitution and the Women and Gender Development Policy.
Regarding the reduction of the rural poverty, the government plans to put in place a conducive environment measure to ensure that women are economically empowered and have access to capital market. Strategies to be implemented will include: (i) sensitize women and men to establish economic groups such as SACCOS and access credits for income generating activities, (ii) provide training on entrepreneurship to women and facilitate access to profitable markets, (iii) create conducive environment for equal opportunities in employment for both women and men, (iv) provide managerial skills for women workers and sensitize them on confidence building, (v) provide conducive environment for promoting equal opportunities in accessing employment, (vi) campaign against customs and traditions that limit equal division of labour and resources between women and men at all levels.
To increase the resilience of livelihoods to disasters, the NSGD plans to sensitize communities and others stakeholders at all level on the importance of establishing gender balance in environmental management committees, to protect and preserve their surrounding and environment. Strategies to be implemented include: (i) increasing environmental protection and conservation measures to ensure human and economic development, (ii) provide tools and facilities for the protection and conservation of environment.
In the context of governance, the primary objective of the implementation plan is to identify and guide on specific actions which Ministries, Institutions, Independent Departments, Private Sector, Local Government Authorities, Civil Society Organizations, Community Based Organizations and communities will undertake in the short, medium and long term plans. The Government will create an enabling environment for active participation of all stakeholders. The Ministry of Community Development, Gender and Children is the national machinery for gender development in the country. It will be responsible for the following: (i) coordinating the implementation of the strategy and work closely with other actors, (ii) providing professional backstopping to other implementers of gender development, (iii) reporting implementation progress, (iv) collect and disseminate information programmes, (v) maintain National Gender Database.