Tanzania Fund

The Tanzania Fund agreed to provide funding for the three years of this programme starting in late 2008. Oxfam was able to supplement this with a generous donation from another supporter in order to fund fully the programme.

The financial report for 2009 is available here.

Major Donation from Accenture

In 2009 the Accenture Foundation approved a 3 year proposal to support Oxfam's agricultural scale up programmes in Tanzania, India and Ethiopia for $1.7m. Accenture is a global management consulting, technology services and outsourcing company who, for the last year, have been supporting an Oxfam fishing project that is part of our agricultural scale up programme in India. The grant for Tanzania will fund the sisal component of the TASU programme from May 2009-12.

Tanzania Fund enters partnership with the European Union

Oxfam made an application to the EU for a major grant of £1.0m to fund the TASU initiative, which has now been accepted. This is great news for Shinyanga. The total programme will cost £1.1m, of which the EU will fund 90%, ie €1,000,000, and the Tanzania Fund €110,000. This is an ambitious funding target for the Tanzania Fund, but it enables the EU to fund 10x our contribution, and secures a major step up in the activities in Shinyanga.

Samaka Jilungile, leading member of Zanzei village's chicken group, with other members of the group