Kigoma Joint Programme Phase II Youth and Women Economic Empowerment

The Kigoma Joint Programme II (KJPII) builds on results achieved and lessons learned in the first phase of the Programme implemented in 2017-2022. Under the KJPII, the UN Tanzania continues to provide targeted support to address persistent socio-challenges identified with the Kigoma Regional administration and the key stakeholders. These priorities are in line with the Sustainable Development Goals, the National Five-Year Development Plan III and the Kigoma Region Development Strategy. The priorities also correspond with the five-year United Nations Sustainable Development Cooperation Framework 2022-2027. Kigoma Joint Programme - Prosperity pillar; Outcome 2: By 2027, people living in Kigoma Region working in MSMEs and small-scale agriculture, especially the most vulnerable, women and youth achieve increased, more sustainable productivity and incomes with more equitable access to productive resources. The Prosperity pillar seeks to support smallholder producers, including smallholder farmers micro, small, and medium enterprises particularly those led by women and youth in the informal sector, umbrella associations such as Agricultural Marketing Cooperative Society, Cooperatives, Village Community Banks, and Business Development Services providers, as well as extension service providers achieve increased, more sustainable productivity and incomes with more equitable access to productive resources. The programme also works to ensure other marginalized/vulnerable groups including people with disabilities, rural poor, livestock keepers, beekeepers, fisher folk are not left behind. Project main components Agriculture: to improve extension services to farmers to increase productivity. Youth and Women’s Economic Empowerment: to empower all women and youth economic groups in the region by providing them entrepreneurial skills and loans so that they become more productive and fight against poverty. The Prosperity pillar use a market system approach to identify market constraints and systematically address the challenges faced by the small holder farmers and MSMEs in the region. In doing so, the UN working with the government and other relevant market actors to address areas of weak links and to fill in gaps with an intention to promote participation by the underserved segments and the poor who are always excluded in such systems paying special attention to women and youth.

Project symbol

TZA/23/01/UND

Admin unit

CO-Dar es Salaam

Start date

15/07/2023

End date

30/06/2027

Total allocation

931515

Total expenditure

Status

Active

584287

Development Partners

Multi Partner Trust Fund Office, UNDP

Country/Countries

United Republic of Tanzania

Outcomes

Outcome 4: Sustainable enterprises for inclusive growth and decent work