Strengthening Meaningful Participation, Leadership and Economic Rights for Women and Girls at the Local Level in Tanzania - Abridged Version

This publication aims to establish baseline findings that will be used to guide the design and refinement of evidence-based project strategies and approaches to be applied in the Women’s Leadership and Economic Rights (WLER) Project. The project has the overarching goal of ensuring women’s and girls’ meaningful participation, leadership, and economic rights are strengthened at local levels in Tanzania in six regions, namely, Singida, Arusha, Mtwara, Lindi, Dar-es-Salaam, and Pwani (Coast). In this area, the project is set out to achieve several milestones, key among them being to increase the number of women in leadership and decision-making positions and their voices at the local government levels through promoting gender responsive norms, behaviours, and practices, strengthening capacities of women leaders, enhance the collection and use of sex and disability responsive data, and enhancing women’s economic rights including by piloting gender and disability transformative innovative measures on care services, in line with the Generation Equality Commitments made by the Government of Tanzania.