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AMHQRM Enterprise Expansion Project Azimio is an expansion rice value chain project that has successfully implemented an USADF supported capacity building project. The expansion project is expected to benefit more than 800 smallholder rice farmers at the Azimio Mswiswi irrigation scheme. Through continued USADF grant and technical support the project seeks to complete the on-going construction of its own warehouse and offices on a newly acquired piece of land in Azimio Mswiswi Village. The group also needs to improve the quality of rice they process so as to remain a competitive rice processor and supplier. The group will need a delivery track to ensure members paddy once harvested is delivered to the milling plant in real time so as to minimize post harvest losses.
Improving Maize Value Chain through Processing Sector: Agriculture (Maize).Location: Mbeya, Tanzania.Summary: The proposed project will build the capacity of Khebhandza to support smallholder farmers based in Mbeya and Songwe regions on improved maize production and reduction of post- harvest losses. Another focus will be on food safety and hygiene, especially reduction of aflatoxin level through post-harvest technologies and good agronomic practices.
Diligent CA 2016-2017 This is the 3rd CA for DCL, the Tanzania partner organization
Benedictine Sisters of St. Gertrud Convent Imiliwaha Benedictine Sisters Small Hydro Electric Power Plant Project
Academy for Women Entrepreneurs (AWE)-Success Cuisine Sector: Food services.Location: Stonetown, Zanzibar.Summary: The project aims supply of high quality and safe meat, meat products, fish fillets, sausages to backpacker hostels and tourist hotels in Zanzibar.
Kibiu Mbuguni Farmers Horticulture Capacity Building The project funds will be used to improve access to water at the farm by renovating wells; to enhance infrastructure at their collection and sales center; and to provide crop inputs and agricultural extension services to farmers. Kibiumembers will also receive training in horticultural best practices; financial management and good governance.
YALI - Munis - Nuya's Essence TheTanzanian market is replete with chemically-basedskin care products and cosmeticsthatareharmful to peoples health. Hellen is providing an eco-friendly, economic alternative in Zanzibar, where she is manufacturing and selling natural, affordable products and employing low income women.
Coffee Rehabilitation and Production Project Sector: Coffee Beneficiaries: The project will directly and indirectly impact more than 2,268 rural people of which the project will directly impact more than 400 women. Description: Marangu East AMCOS seeks to revamp and increase the production, productivity and quality of mild arabica coffee. This will be attained by planting new more high yielding compact variety using best agricultural practices that take into account the need to embrace sustainable landscape approach.
YALI - Magambo Global Light Company If you want to take a bus trip in Tanzania; the bus station is the only place to buy your ticket. Raymond is addressing customer service opportunities; including the long time it can take to reach ticket agents; wait in line; fend off hawkers; and pay commissions. He is partnering with bus lines and phone companies to sell tickets via mobile app and SMS and provide passengers with price; schedule; and seat options. This will save travelers and bus companies both time and money.
ADC Tanzania Ltd Partner Cooperative Agreement Cooperative agreement for USADF Tanzania Partner Africa Development Consultants Ltd. (ADC) to carry out year 1 of their cooperative agreement.
Rice and Banana Production Capacity Development Rice and Banana Production Capacity Development
Textile Production Funds used to construct warehouse, improve management and production capacity, and purchase: vehicle, office equipment and working capital inputs.
Improvement and Expansion Project Funds used to improve organizational, financial & management systems; train members in improved agronomic practices & establish tea nurseries.
Young African Leaders Initiative (YALI) - Mayai Poa- Egg Production We aim at up scaling our production by capitalizing on the use of modern chicken rearing techniques and tools. This will specifically include the use of modern cages, sourcing quality day old chicks, use of better feeds, better bio- security, better management and use the availability of nutritious raw materials such as Soya, amino acids, vitamins, phosphates, enzymes and better farming techniques. The expansion of egg production will ensure availability of nutritious food together with the manure to the community in Arusha and provide employment to the youth who are currently faced with unemployment.
HomeVeg Market Linkages The project funds will be used to train smallholder growers on proper production and harvesting methods to ensure maximum produce is sold at export prices, thus increasing the income of individual farmers.
High Quality Vegetable and Fruit Production Expansion The project funds will be used to provide basic irrigation infrastructure to farmer members throughout Zanzibar; market research activities; and training to farmer members in best practices of horticulture production.
YALI - Oljange - Avomeru Group Every year, over 100 million avocados are being underutilized in northern Tanzania, going to waste or being fed to livestock. The avocados short shelf-life makes them largely unsuitable for export, even to nearby local markets. Yesse is capturing value from the avocados by processing them into a higher value product with a better shelf-life; avocado oil. In doing so, raising the standard of living and reducing post-harvest losses for smallholder avocado farmers.
SHIVIWAKA Coffee Capacity Building Sector: Coffee, Beneficiaries: Coffee Farmers , Project Description: The project funds will be used to enhance the production capacity of SHIVIWAKA's members through training's in good agricultural practices and establishment of a revolving fund for purchase of agricultural inputs. Funds will equally be used to strengthen the central capacity of SHIVIWAKA through trainings in good governance; financial management; and long-term business planning.
Youth- RLC- Fabrish Fish Farm Company This grant will be used for start up costs for Fabrish Fish Farm Company Ltd, an aquaculture firm that will raise Tilapia and Catfish for sale.
Feed Production and Marketing Funds used to construct processing factory, purchase truck, establish revolving loan fund and establish smallholder supply contracts.
UWAMWIMA Fresh Vegetables and Fruits Production and Marketing UWAMWIMA Fresh Vegetables and Fruits Production and Marketing
ADC Tanzania Ltd Cooperative Agreement FY22 - Year 2 Cooperative agreement for USADF Tanzania technical partner, ADC Tanzania Ltd. Funds will be used to support staff salaries and benefits, program monitoring expenses, training, and other administrative expenses.
Academy for Women Entrepreneurs (AWE) - Mama Kit Project Name: Mama Kit. Location: Tegeta, Dar es Salaam. Summary: Tushinde Company Limited seeks to provide affordable delivery kits containing essential supplies needed by women during childbirth. These kits will contain clean and hygienic tools often required by rural women giving birth in rural health clinics. Tushinde Company Ltd. also plans to expand into Short Message Service (SMS) to provide pregnant women with important health information.
YALI - Alphonce - Smartfit Meal Cards Traditionally university students get their cash meal allowances, they purchase their food from the campuss privately owned cafeterias, which operate on a cash basis only. This means that if you dont have cash you are unable to eat. Stanely is enhancing the educational environment and nutritional security of students by improving access to meals on campus and helping students manage their spending through the creation a meal card system.
Academy for Women Entrepreneurs (AWE)-Vikapu Bomba Sector: Handicrafts.Location: Iringa, Tanzania.Summary: The project aims to recruit and train women in rural communities on traditional hand weaving skills for basket making.
Academy for Women Entrepreneurs (AWE)-M&M Products Spice Tea Location: Zanzibar, Tanzania.Sector: Agri-business.Summary: Mwanaidi Ali Said intends to expand her spice tea business through packing and supply of spice tea leaves to the local and export market. The project will source the raw materials needed to expand the spice tea from local growers and suppliers.
Developing Training Materials and Training USADF Implementing Partners This is a grant that is aimed to improve training materials across the foundation.
Spice Production, Value Addition, and Marketing Spice Production, Value Addition, and Marketing
Nishati Micro-Hydro Power Project Nishati Hydro Power Project will install a distribution system to connect 50 homes to a 68 kilowatt hydropower plant.
Solar Powered Drying Facility for Sardine Value Chain in Lake Victoria Tanzania Transitioning to a modern, environmentally friendly sardine value chain by investing in drying facilities and 1,500 fishing lamps, both solar powered. These are key investments to be made to reach scale-up in terms of dried sardine production (economies of scale), sales (increase of drying capacity enables MEE to meet growing market demand), social impact (providing fishermen with adequate, affordable and sustainable solar lamps) and environmental impact (MEE becoming self-sufficient in energy in its drying operations and thus independent from electricity from the grid).
Improving Maize Production and Marketing Value Chain Sector: Agriculture, Maize and its products i.e., maize for human consumption and animal feeds, other cereals, Beneficiaries: 94 farmers 36 women and 58 men, Description: Project funds will be used to diversify maize production, organize markets to realize better incomes as well as ensuring availability of adequate food for their community. As well as diversify into maize seeds production, maize flour production and animal feed production. Some of the grant will be used as working capital to support the acquisition of inputs and make it accessible to farmer members of Ibumila AMCOS.
NSHDA Horticulture Capacity Building Grant The project funds will be used to increase water flow to the farmers fields through basic irrigation infrastructure; and set up a nursery from which farmer members can purchase crop inputs and seedlings. NSHDA members will also receive training in horticultural best practices; financial management and good governance.
Kanyele Maize Capacity Building Project Sector: Maize.Beneficiaries: 167 smallholder farmers.Kanyele AMCOS is a resilient and remote farmer organization whose purpose is to develop a strong and growing maize value chain to increase members incomes and build stronger and sustainable rural community in Rukwa Region, Kalambo District 1,500km from Dar es Salaam. The organization has within 4 years grown its membership from 30 to 212 currently and growing. They have managed to bulk together 480MT and successfully supplied to the National Food Reserve Agency between 2015 and 2016. The organization has experienced fluctuating maize prices, a situation that has impacted negatively on farmers incomes. Now the organization has entered into a contract with Mbasira Food Industries Ltd, a Sumbawanga based bulk buyer and processor of maize to supply 600MT during the current season to commence in June 2018. The order guarantees the organization a premium price of Tzs 10/kg above the prevailing market price at the time of supply. This supply arrangement calls for enhancing the AMCOS organizational, financial and agricultural capacities through USADF OAG. Members will need more training in good agricultural practices, post harvest handling of maize through appropriate storage to mimize losses as well as having in place an inputs revolving fund to ensure timely availability of inputs. A technical team to facilitate and capacitate the organization to fulfill its supply obligations would be recommended recourse.
UMAMA Horticulture Capacity Building The project funds will be used to purchase a pump that will improve the flow of water to farmers fields; to expand infrastructure at their collection and sales center; and to provide crop inputs and agricultural extension services to farmers. UMAMA members will also receive training in horticulturalbest practices; financial management and good governance.
Strengthening Mpui Maize Production and Marketing Infrastructure Sector: Expansion of a maize value chain.Beneficiaries: Direct and indirect beneficiaries will include Mpui farmers and those enterprises supplying inputs and those buying maize and related by-products..Description: The project entails scaling-up of a successful maize OAG. The expansion entails increased production of high quality maize, increase in farmers incomes and sales revenue for the AMCOS. The expansion will also count on the success to diversify into new value chains including the promotion of a sunflower through the CRAFT Project.
Partner Agreement GM Clean Energy will produce biogas stoves for use by off-grid; marginalized communities to cook injera; a major food staple consumed in Ethiopia. The grant from Power Africa/USADF will provide seed funding for the enterprise to scale up its operations; producing an initial batch of efficient stoves andestablishing a rural distribution branch.
LUCAS ENGINEERING AND MANAGEMENT SERVICES (T)COMPANY LIMITED Sector: Solar.Summary: LEMS is installing a solar mini-grid in Hanang District, Manyara Region and training mostly women in the use of off-grid solar/wind generated power. The expected impact is increased incomes for women as a result of using the power generated and connected to their business premises as well as usage of power to facilitate preservation of milk and vegetables so as to increase access to markets.
Microlease SME Expansion Project The project funds will be used to provide finance and business development services to previous USADF grantees. CRGT was created to provide the funding to the missing middle of agricultural finance; for farmers associations with a track record of successful business; but minimal credit history and access commercial lending.
MRALIPA Livestock Expansion Project Funds used will supply cattle, sheep & goats to Manyara Ranch; train staff; construct headquarters; and provide sustainable loan for farmers.
YALI Muro Kivuko.com Connecting local vendors with local customers, Kivuko.com seeks to be a pioneer of e-commerce in Tanzania. Nuro Muro has created this online marketplace, which provides cost-effective ways to buy and sell quality products safely and conveniently.
ADC Tanzania Cooperative Agreement FY23 - Year 3 Cooperative Agreement for USADF Tanzania technical partner, ADC Tanzania Limited. This partnership will be used to provide technical support to grant recipients in Tanzania.
Ensol Solar Hybrid Micro-Grid 50kW Solar Hybrid Micro-grid to electrify a potential of 200 households and 29 public facilities, small businesses and industries in Mpale village, Korogwe district, Tanga region.
Ls Solution Solar PV Mini-Grid Project Ls Solution Limited is implementing a17 KW solar PV micro-grid at Samunge village located in remote Ngorongoro District, northern Tanzania. The project aims to supply electricity to about 170 households Including local business, health centers, schools and churches/mosques.
Power Africa Tanzania Cooperative Agreement Centre for Sustainable Development Initiatives is USADF's local partner for the Power Africa portfolio in Tanzania. They assist the Power Africa grantees with implementation issues, as well as carrying out due diligence, monitoring and evaluation, and more.
Sustainable Production and Marketing of High Quality Arabica Coffee Sector: Coffee Value Chain.Beneficiaries: More than 1,354 members and farmers of which 542 are expected to be women and youths..Description: Igamba Coffee AMCOS seeks to sustainably produce and market high quality mild arabica coffee that will command premium prices at the local and export market. .USADF's funds will be used to improve the capacity of Igamba Mpya AMCOS to produce quality arabica coffee. To achieve this, the project will train farmers on good agricultural practices, establish a revolving fund for purchase of inputs and raw materials, and expand its seedling nursery.
Academy for Women Entrepreneurs (AWE) - Bee Keeping Processing and Value Addition Project Name: Bee Keeping Processing and Value Addition Location: Tegeta, Dar es Salaam Summary: Dream Developers Limited plans to establish a modern bee harvesting, packaging, and beehive manufacturing plant in Tanzania. They will also provide service to contract farmers by training in beekeeping management, retailing commercial hives and harvesting and purchasing honey products.
Manushi Sinde Coffee Capacity Building Project Sector: Agriculture, Beneficiaries: 350 small holder farmers, of which 103 are women., , The Project Description:, This is an agriculture project located in rural Tanzania on the slopes of Mt Kilimanjaro. This is the leading mild arabica coffee producing region in Tanzania but yet suffers from abject poverty that could be avoided and eliminated completely. This calls for more technical support to the organization, use the available resources more optimally and improve the governance set up. The project entails extending an organizational assistance grant to enhance the capacity of the project to grow better varieties of coffee, improve coffee quality, ensure timely procurement of agri-inputs, ensure timely payment for farmers coffee upon delivery at the cooperative and ensure improved governance and financial management and control. The expected outcomes include higher incomes for better quality coffee, improved productivity to ensure more quality coffee is produced form the same area under cultivation. The project will also entail embracing other cross-cutting issues including environmental conservation, HIV aids awareness and alcohol abuse.
LUKOVEG Horticulture Capacity Building Sector: Horticulture , Beneficiaries: Vegetable farmers in Lushoto., Project Description: Lukoveg is a horticulture group working to enhance the lives of vegetable and fruit farmers in Lushoto Tanzani
Clean Collect The Clean Collect computer application will be used by solid waste management companies to track payment records as well as managing the administrative and other operational processes of the company. The soft ware will be built as a payment service to be integrated with mobile money service providers.
Kingerikiti AMCOS Coffee Value Addition Project Sector: The AMCOS is in the coffee value chain by producing quality coffee and selling it to the export market. Beneficiaries: More than 1,400 members and local farmers benefit directly from the project through access to timely supply of inputs, extension services and market access..Description: The coffee value chain entails production and centrally pulping the coffee to enhance quality. The famers aggregate their coffee and sell it through the coffee auction or export it directly to buyers offering higher prices than that offered at the auction.
Kingerikiti Agricultural Marketing Cooperative Society Limited Smallholder coffee farming in Mbinga and Nyasa districts in the southern highlands in Tanzania dates back to the colonial days. The close to a century of coffee economy has had its challanges ranging from fluctuating coffee prices, changes in the cooperative policy and emergence of better yielding agricultural crops that have over time out competed coffee. However, the Kingerekiti farmers have remained resilient and still embrace their coffee as an important source of income, price flatuations not withstanding. Coffee has assured farmers of income through the season and into the next season as farmers get advance payments on delivery and subsequent payments as the coffee gets auctioned. It is this spread in earnings that has made farmers continue to grow coffee. However, as observed, coffee industry suffers from quality and quantity issues. The governance of farmer cooperatives has remained a nagging problem. Financial management and control of farmers money has also been a borne of contention. These are all capacity issues which may be addressed by USADF organizational assistance grant to Kingerekiti AMCOS. , The project will directly benefit 320 active cooperative members who sell their coffee through the primary cooperative society. In addition, it is assumed at least 4 members in each of the households of the 320 members depends on income from coffee. These are 1,280 beneficiaries per every year of USADF support to the AMCOS. As coffee production increases through the envisaged interventions, more employment is expected on the farms, among the input suppliers, at processing facilities
QUEST - University of Maryland USADF & UMDs Robert Smith School of Business are partnering together on an eight month business practicum. 10 USADF funded, Young African Leaders Initiative (YALI) entrepreneurs work with faculty a
Academy for Women Entrepreneurs (AWE)-Ifanda Designer Sector: Fashion.Location: Stone Town, Zanzibar.Summary: The project aim to train women in tailoring and design using high quality local textile to produce high quality clothes and apparel.
Builders of Africa's Future - Kasole Secrets Kasole project aims at solving a challenge of poor quality of menstrual products and high price of the menstrual materials by developing and selling at subsidy innovative disposable sanitary pads embossed with bamboo charcoal; Consultation on MHH and Entrepreneurship; making and selling reusable pads.
Lubuveg Horticulture Capacity Building Project Sector: Agriculture. Horticulture Production; including snow peas, tomatoes, onions, kale and related greens. , Beneficiaries: 510 small scale vegetable farmers, including 204 women. , USADF funds will be used for management training and capacity building; construction of collection centers; developing a sorting / grading facility; training in grading of products; technical support and agronomy training in how to improve agriculture production and reduce post harvest losses; purchase of motorcycles for extension activities and to collect farmers for meetings; an inputs revolving fund; and product diversification and marketing support.
Academy for Women Entrepreneurs (AWE) - Mama wa Shamba Project Name: Agribusiness Location: Bagamoyo Mapinga Summary: Mama wa Shamba Enterprises seeks to serve as a production and training center for the community, including women and youth. The processing center will enable Mama wa Shamba to train women and youth in food processing, entrepreneurship development and management.
Academy for Women Entrepreneurs - Wote Sawa Domestic Workers Organization Location: Mwanza, Tanzania.Summary: The project will train female domestic workers on home care skills such as housekeeping and laundry services, cooking, personal hygiene, life skills, health and safety in the work place, personal financial management, and other relevant skills.
Coalition for Farmer Allied Intermediaries (CFAI) - Profate Investments Ltd Sector: Agriculture (Dairy).Location: Dar Es Salaam, Tanzania.Summary: The project will use USADF funds to pay dairy farmers for milk deliveries, increase their packaging options and cover administrative costs.
Ageco Biomass Gasification Project Ageco is installing a biomass gasification system to provide 32 kw of energy to a village of 3000 people.
Leveraging Model Renewable Energy The project funds will be used to expand the loan funds available to TAHUDE; provide loan management software and training in running a lending organization; and fund outreach and market research as TAHUDE provides loans for purchase of bio-gas systems in Karatuand neighboring communities.
Youth- RLC- Obuntu Hub Limited This grant goes to start-up costs for Obuntu Hub, a youth hub that empowers young micro-entrepreneurs by providing co-working space, practical skills development, and a supportive community.