Feed the Future aims to reduce poverty and improve nutrition by supporting Tanzanian-led plans. This includes investing 80 percent of Feed the Future resources in the Southern Agricultural Growth Corridor of Tanzania (SAGCOT), a region the Government of Tanzania has identified as having the potential to make a significant contribution to the economic growth of the country. The remaining 20 percent focuses on development activities on the Zanzibar islands as well as in Manyara and Dodoma.
USAID’s education portfolio supports improving student outcomes in reading in Kiswahili, the local language, for grades one through four.
The United States is one of the largest donors to the Global Alliance for Vaccines and Immunization (the GAVI Alliance), committing more than $1.2 billion over the last 12 years to expand access to vaccines in the world’s poorest countries. Of this, over $250 million has gone to the United Republic of Tanzania since 2000.
The abridged USAID Tanzania Country Development Cooperation Strategy provides a summary of how USAID is helping Tanzania achieve socioeconomic transformation toward middle income status by 2025.
Health system challenges in Tanzania are impeding the achievement of national development goals and consequently those relating to USAID’s programs on Maternal and Child Health (MCH), Malaria, HIV/AIDS, Tuberculosis (TB), and Family Planning (FP). These challenges include, but are not limited to, the shortage of health care workers, health commodity stock outs, and insufficient financing.
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