Promoting Opportunities for Women Empowerment and Rights in Tanzania (POWER) 2021-2023 Promoting Opportunities for Women Empowerment and Rights in Tanzania (POWER) 2021-2023 What to be done and why? 

 The  proposed project is focusing on addressing ?Youth economic empowerment, especially young women? who have been denied their rights to pursue with their education at teenage as school drop outs due pregnancies.  Expulsion from school denies girls (now young mother) their rights to re-enter into schools for education and skills development hence causing several challenges such as rejection by family and friends and hence pushing them into depression, social isolation and limited access to support they need to take good care of themselves and their babies after delivery. 

 The main contribution of the project is to economically empower single mothers to improve their wellbeing and reduce poverty through increased incomes and other resources to provide for their children, families and the community as a whole

 Direct project results to be achieved by the projects 

 Enhanced awareness and society that is more informed that support women rights and economic opportunities to create employment through decent jobs and incomes to support them and their families

 Skilled and oriented single mothers in vocational, business and life skills incl. human rights employed through own enterprises 

 Improved access to assets (social, physical and financial assets) and business doing behavior of single mothers to boost their income and economic status. 

 Direct beneficiaries : 120 single mothers will be directly enrolled into the project and involved in various trainings and skills building sessions for the period ranging from 3 to six months. Lately; more than 600 youth will be in-directly reached through sexual and reproductive health, human rights and life skills training to be facilitated by trained single mothers (project graduates

 Expected outputs of the projects 

 ?	360 stakeholders are informed of the project and aware of the basic human rights issues and provide support to the project and single mothers 

 ?	120 single mothers identified and recruited into the project, counselled and motivated to join the project and trained 

 ?	Single mothers organized in groups, formed 30 women led enterprises that are operational and growing

 

 Tanzania 4H organization is the implementing partners; it will work with the local government authorities  and selected NGOs working on the same theme and areas. 

 

 Link to the website: https://4htanzania.or.tz/ What to be done and why? 
The  proposed project is focusing on addressing “Youth economic empowerment, especially young women” who have been denied their rights to pursue with their education at teenage as school drop outs due pregnancies.  Expulsion from school denies girls (now young mother) their rights to re-enter into schools for education and skills development hence causing several challenges such as rejection by family and friends and hence pushing them into depression, social isolation and limited access to support they need to take good care of themselves and their babies after delivery. 
The main contribution of the project is to economically empower single mothers to improve their wellbeing and reduce poverty through increased incomes and other resources to provide for their children, families and the community as a whole
Direct project results to be achieved by the projects 
Enhanced awareness and society that is more informed that support women rights and economic opportunities to create employment through decent jobs and incomes to support them and their families
Skilled and oriented single mothers in vocational, business and life skills incl. human rights employed through own enterprises 
Improved access to assets (social, physical and financial assets) and business doing behavior of single mothers to boost their income and economic status. 
Direct beneficiaries : 120 single mothers will be directly enrolled into the project and involved in various trainings and skills building sessions for the period ranging from 3 to six months. Lately; more than 600 youth will be in-directly reached through sexual and reproductive health, human rights and life skills training to be facilitated by trained single mothers (project graduates
Expected outputs of the projects 
•	360 stakeholders are informed of the project and aware of the basic human rights issues and provide support to the project and single mothers 
•	120 single mothers identified and recruited into the project, counselled and motivated to join the project and trained 
•	Single mothers organized in groups, formed 30 women led enterprises that are operational and growing
Tanzania 4H organization is the implementing partners; it will work with the local government authorities  and selected NGOs working on the same theme and areas. 
Link to the website: https://4htanzania.or.tz/