ActionAid International Tanzania is a part of ActionAid global family an anti-poverty development agency working with the poorest communities in over 40 Countries in Africa, Asia and Latin America to end poverty and injustice together.
The organisation has grown to now work with poor and excluded people to strengthen their capacity to meet their immediate needs and influence local, national and international decisions and processes in their favour.
The organisation employs a unique rights based approach in its effort to fight the injustices that cause inequality and poverty.
It works in education, HIV and AIDS, Agriculture and food security, education and women’s rights areas to enable people gain power to secure their rights.
Through this approach, people are supported to drive their own agenda and influence change to transform their lives.
ActionAid only acts as acts as a catalyst, facilitator and capacity builder while working with other agencies including the government, research institutions and development agencies.
Our vision: Tanzanian free from poverty and injustice where people live a life of dignity
Our mission: To empower poor and excluded and their organizations, to effectively claim and secure their rights using right based approach
Our Values
Honesty and transparency – being accountable at all levels for the effectiveness of our actions and open in our judgment and communication with others
Collective responsibility – realising that we cannot work in isolation but have to work with others to achieve results
Courage of Conviction – requiring us to be creative and radical, bold and innovative without fear of failure in pursuit of making the greatest possible impact on the causes of poverty
Creativity and innovation – devising new ways to tackle problem as informed by experiences on the ground
Equity and justice – working to ensure equal opportunity to everyone irrespective of race, age, gender, HIV status, colour, class, ethnicity, disability, location and religion
Mutual respect – recognising the innate worth of all people and the value of diversity
Solidarity with the poor, powerless and excluded will be the only bias in our commitment to the fight against poverty