Tanzania

The Carter Center currently partners with the city of Dar es Salaam as part of its groundbreaking Inform Women, Transform Lives campaign.

In 1988, The Carter Center began working with the Tanzania Ministry of Agriculture to help build food security. In 1994, Tanzania joined other Great Lakes nations in a regional Carter Center initiative to repatriate Rwandan refugees and curb violence.

Impact

Built the skills of local farmers through our Agriculture Program, which was so successful that it was phased out in 2004
Convened presidential summits in 1996 that ended with important commitments to repatriate Rwandans and curb regional violence

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Access to Information

Through its groundbreaking Inform Women, Transform Lives campaign, The Carter Center partners with city leaders worldwide to raise awareness about women’s right to access information and to help cities reach women with valuable information and essential municipal services.

Access to this information empowers women with a stronger voice, enabling them to participate in public life, utilize public services, and make more informed decisions for themselves, their families, and their communities. In Tanzania, the project has partnered with the city of Dar es Salaam.

Legacy

Peacebuilding

How It Began

Following the Rwandan genocide of 1994, the presidents of Uganda and Zaire (now the Democratic Republic of the Congo) asked President Carter to facilitate a meeting between themselves and the presidents of Burundi, Rwanda, and Tanzania — countries collectively known as the Great Lakes area of Africa — to negotiate a regional initiative to repatriate 1.7 million Rwandan refugees and curb the climate of genocide.

Our Work and Methods

The Carter Center — along with former Tanzania President Julius Nyerere, former Mali President Amadou Toumani Touré, and South Africa Archbishop Desmond Tutu — facilitated summits in Egypt and Tunisia in March 1996.

Impacts

After the summits, the presidents agreed to:

Prevent cross-border raids into any country
Halt arms flow to rebel groups
Turn over individuals indicted for genocide crimes to the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda
Allow 300 human rights observers in Rwanda to work with returning refugees

Despite strenuous efforts to implement these commitments, there was little support from the international community, and most refugees did not return to Rwanda until 2006.

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Legacy

Improving Health

How It Began

In 1988, the Center and the Tanzania Ministry of Agriculture joined forces to help the country build food security and better cope with food deficits caused by erratic rainfall.

Our Work and Methods

Worked with communities to demonstrate soil restoration technologies; held workshops; hosted community field days; and experimented with cultivation methods and drought-resistant produce
Taught small-scale farmers to harvest and store rainwater
Taught farmers new animal-rearing practices and techniques
Provided small loans for fertilizers and seeds for farmers to grow test plots
Helped farmers identify local markets for their surplus crops

Impacts

After successful harvests, participating farmers taught their neighbors about the new technologies and practices, creating a ripple effect to stimulate food self-sufficiency in the nation.
A program focused on post-harvest technologies, including methods for processing and storing grains, was so effective that it became a regional showpiece, with workers from Ethiopia, Malawi, and Zambia traveling to visit storage sites in Tanzania.
The first village-based savings and loan organization was established in Tanzania, as part of a new movement in Africa to provide farmers in remote areas with the credit they need to purchase new seeds, tools, and fertilizers.

This project ended in 2004.