Social Accountability through Youth (SAY) in Tanzania’s Dodoma, Iringa and Morogoro regions Social Accountability through Youth (SAY) seeks to empower young people and excluded groups to lead 179 rural and marginalised communities in holding authorities and organisations delivering local projects and services to account. SAY aims to increase the impact and value for money of £30m+ of development investments in eight predominantly rural districts, improving transparency and services for over half a million community members by 2022. • 408 young women and men and young people with disabilities will be empowered as agents of change, leading autonomous project monitoring across 179 communities • 528,500 community members will benefit from their communities’ improved systems, ability and confidence to hold implementing actors to account, and from increased quality and impact of the projects taking place across eight districts • Regional and district authorities will strengthen their support of community-led accountability, agreeing to promote its use in future project implementation across three target districts • Up to 1,923 communities will be targeted through media and face-to-face campaigns on the benefits, and the steps they can take to establish, community-led and autonomous monitoring. Delivery against SAY’s 4 key Outputs will improve integrity, impact and VfM of £30m+ project investments in basic services among a direct target population of 528,500). Supporting SDG 16, SAY will leave a legacy of empowered young women and men and PWDs able to hold actors to account for basic services. Uninformed, and underrepresented in formal structures, rural young women and men and PWDs feel unable to affect local change. SAY seeks to inspire, mobilise and empower them to lead CIB implementation in their communities as CMs and YCCs. Recruited through participatory processes which engage communities and target groups at risk of exclusion, 35 YCCs will undertake GESI-sensitive baseline and formative research actions ensuring SAY approaches are gender and disability-appropriate with 358 CMs recruited through community engagement events. As YCCs, young women will engage community leaders on self-sustaining, autonomous monitoring. To develop CMs and YCCs confidence to speak up, women’s groups and youth peer groups will be established to provide support as CMs engage communities and leadership in monitoring of projects of a cumulative investment value of £30M+. These actions will achieve Output 1. Communities are unaware of how to hold implementing actors / authorities to account. Working in pairs, CMs will lead community-level monitoring, uploading findings to DevCheck and engaging with community leaders, local contractors, and peer YCCs in JWGs; a collaborative forum during which issues and solutions are agreed with implementing actors. Through regular community events, effective monitors and others will be publicly recognised; JWGs will inform communities of fixes highlighted by feedback. Thus, JWGs are enabling communities to hold implementers to account. Findings and fixes are published online through DevCheck, reinforcing transparency. Young women and men and PWDs will lead activities as SCCs with the Communications Manager to campaign for uptake of CIB in and beyond the 179 target communities. Learning from implementation will feed GESI-sensitive campaign messaging. Radio broadcasts, print and online media will combine with social media presence and calls to action. A CIB toolkit will be developed, published and promoted through the media and events campaign supporting communities across 3 regions and beyond to take up CIB. Cumulatively, actions described in the two paragraphs above achieve SAY Outputs 2 and 3. Regional authorities’ strategies do not include steps to address social accountability gaps. SAY will engage 3 RASs and 8 district authorities through joint monitoring, meetings and learning dissemination, positioning CIB as a cost-efficient means of empowering the most marginalised and maximising projects’ impact and VfM. SAY aims to achieve signed agreements with RASs for ‘top-down’ CIB reinforcement in future projects. SAY will also ensure other agencies take part in the strategy to support their future CIB take up (Output 4).