TanzaniaUN Women in action: Strategic insights and achievements
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Tanzania has achieved notable progress in advancing gender- responsive policy and legislative reforms in 2024 with technical and financial support from UN Women. This achievement has occurred across different sectors and in more non-traditional policy areas, including trade, and has begun to translate into tangible changes on the ground. A first example is the launch of the Gender and Women Development Policy in March 2024, the overarching framework and policy guidance on gender equality. Additionally in 2024, the Government launched its second National Plan of Action on Violence Against Women and Children (NPA-VAWC) 2024-2027 for the mainland. UN Women�s ongoing technical support contributed to both achievements, building on long-standing technical support and facilitation of stakeholder consultation for both. Importantly, the NPA-VAWC II is grounded by a transformative theory of change and UN Women ensured the Plan was developed with input from Civil Society Organizations (CSOs), including organizations of persons with disabilities (OPDs), women-led organizations, faith-based organizations, media, and academics. Further, UN Women support under the African Continental Free Trade Area and the Generation Equality Forum contributed to reforms to the National Trade Policy (NTP) 2024, which now addresses equitable and effective participation of women in trade and support to farmers through established marketing infrastructure, Cooperative Unions, Marketing Boards, and marketing promotion programmes. In line with the inclusive trade reforms, UN Women supported one district to operationalize agriculture product storage for Sunflower and Green grams for 643 women and men farmers, resulting in a 50% increase (from $34 in informal market to $52 per sack) from informal market pricing where many farmers, especially women, previously sold their produce. Collective marketing increased women's agency, and bargaining power and contributed to overcoming gender barriers that constrained their market participation. To translate policy commitments into legislative action, UN Women Tanzania continued to promote inclusive and equal participation of women in leadership and decision-making processes, including through strategic support on legislative measures towards the achievement of SDG target 5.5. Violence against women in politics (VAWP) is now recognized as an election offense in the Presidential, Parliamentary, and Councilors Act (2024), making Tanzania the first country in the region to take this initiative. UN Women made a significant contribution to this achievement, building on a 2023 comprehensive analysis of three electoral Bills, to deliver advocacy initiatives and technical support on legislative reform with the Parliamentary Committee on Constitution and Legal Affairs and the women�s caucus of Parliament.
In 2023, Tanzania made progress on more equitable distribution of domestic and care responsibilities at the household and community level in line with SDG target 5.4 which aims to recognize and value unpaid care and domestic work, and the United Nations Sustainable Development Cooperation Framework (UNSDCF) Prosperity pillar output 2.1 which calls for gender-responsive plans and strategies at the central and local government levels. At the subnational level, in Singida and Zanzibar as a result of transformative projects, Women and girls in sunflower, horticulture, seaweed, and anchovies value chains accessed 575 clean cooking stoves (electrical pressure cookers, gas, electrical induction stoves, and improved charcoal and firewood stoves). The use of electrical pressure cookers significantly reduced the cooking time from 3-4 hours on a charcoal stove to just 45 minutes. Furthermore, households that adopted improved firewood stoves experienced a remarkable reduction in the time spent on collecting firewood, from 6-9 hours per week to just once a month as indicated by the district analysis. With the introduction of improved technologies, particularly the electric pressure cooker, men in the community are actively involved in household chores. This redistribution of responsibilities not only lightened the burden on women but also granted them additional time to engage in leadership roles and participate in economic and social groups such as producer organizations, agriculture extension services meetings, and business networks leading to increased productivity and income. Ikungi District Council has integrated physical and social infrastructures addressing the disproportionate care work on women into the five-year district strategic plan outlined in the (2024-2025) Medium-term Expenditure Forecast. The results were contributed by UN Women's partnership with the government to advance care-responsive planning and budgeting through examination of policy documents, local-level policy dialogues, and engagements with district planners and traditional leaders to raise awareness on the significance of recognizing, reducing, and equitably redistributing unpaid care work through labor-saving technologies, notably clean cooking stoves and childcare services. UN Women�s engagement with the community including during the International Day of Care and Support proclaimed by the UN General Assembly in 2023 has contributed to a shift in social norms related to the redistribution of care work.
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