TENMET - Tanzania Education Network TENMET - Tanzania Education Network TENMET is an umbrella organization in education and is one of our key partners whose role is to strengthen member CSOs to be able to contribute in improving education quality in Tanzania. TENMET as the organization is also doing advocacy work and part of its sucess in advocacy was on influencing the government to take back its decision to include teacher education under NACTE which by the act of parliament No. 9 of 1977, is an autonomous body with a different set of functions, incompatible with teacher education. TENMET has 181 member organization spread all over Tanzania implementing education programes.

TENMET has approached Embassy of Sweden requesting transitional funds to support them operationally in the transit to the next strategic period 2017 - 2021. TENMET's agreement with Sweden ended in June 2017 and it is likely that Embassy of Sweden will support TENMET in future. The support during the transition period is likely to make TENMET better equipped to reach their targets for the next strategic period, which makes it is reasonable and relevant for Sweden to grant them transitional funds. TENMET är en paraplyorganisation inom utbildning vars roll är att stärka sina medlemsorganisationers kapacitet för att förbättra utbildningskvalitet i Tanzania. TENMET är även en viktig "advocacy-aktör" där exempelvis organisationen lyckades influera regeringen att ta tillbaka sitt beslut att inkludera lärarutbildning under NACTEs översyn, vilket stod is strid med NACTES syfte. TENMET har 181 medlemsorganisationer som implementerar utbildningsprogram utspridda över Tanzania.

TENMET har begärt ytterligare medel från den svenska ambassaden som operationellt stöd i TENMETS övergång till sin nästa strategiska period 2017-2021. TENMET's avtal med Sverige gick ut i Juni 2017 och Sverige kommer sannolikt att stödja TENMET framöver. Ytterligare finansiellt stöd kommer sannolikt att göra TENMET bättra rustade att nå sina mål för sin kommande strategiska period, vilket gör det rimligt och relevant för Sverige att stödja dem under denna övergångsperiod. 

Denna förenklade insats är i praktiken ett tilläggsbeslut som omfattar ovan nämnda ytterligare medel. TENMET is an umbrella organization for more than 180 member CSOs. By virtue of being an Umbrella it naturally plays dual roles; first as secretariat (coordinating management) and second as a Network. Practially, TENMET has to strengthen itself as an institution and utilize its power base to potentially increase influence for its call for policy changes in education sector in Tanzania.
Below objectives defined TENMET purpose.
1. Buildng members capacity to be able to manage their organization and advocate for access and quality in education
2. Strengthen the secretariat as institution to be able to grow, expand and support its members to build a strong network
3. Conduct research and advocacy to inform and work with the government to develop new policies or guideline to improve education systems in the country.
In 2015, Embassy of Sweden signed an agreement with TENMET for two years (2015 -2017) to implement the above stated objectives. And later in 2017 as TENMET was transitioning to a new strategy period, Embassy of Sweden funded TENMET for six months (July 2017 - December 2017) to allow TENMET to explore for development of new strategy and conduct organizational capacity assessment that would feed in to the strategy development process.