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As Project Officer for the independent, non-partisan, youth led, non-governmental organization, Pamoja Youth Initiative, Rashid applied to participate in Feed the Future Tanzania Advancing Youth’s leadership program in 2018. He was one of 50 trainees in the program that brings together youth to a three-day training on negotiation, problem solving and community mobilization skills that enable them to influence decisions and/or become key decision makers in their communities.
Christa Mrope is a Community Education Mobilizer at Kising'a Isimani Primary School in Iringa region. She regularly listens to the Soma Nami (“Read With Me”) radio program, a radio show organized by the USAID Tusome Pamoja (“Let's Read Together”) activity. Through Soma Nami, Christa and other parents in Kising’a village have learned techniques to improve reading and home learning support, promoting reading and literacy skills of their children and protecting children at home and in school. The Soma Nami radio program airs twice a week through two community radio stations in Tanzania’s Iringa region: Radio Furaha and Nuru FM.
Okoa Maisha Dhibiti Malaria (“Save Lives, End Malaria”) seeks to institutionalize malaria surveillance and monitoring at all levels of the Government of Tanzania. The activity seeks to maximize the epidemiological impact of implemented malaria interventions by improving the targeting and implementation of interventions, refining approaches to manage transmission foci and respond to outbreaks, and providing key data to the GOT and stakeholders for policy development and programmatic decision-making.
Well-functioning laboratories with trained staff are the backbone of Tanzania's public health systems. They are critical to the prevention, diagnosis, treatment, and ongoing surveillance of malaria. The US President’s Malaria Initiative has been supporting the development of laboratory expertise in detection and monitoring of antimalarial drug resistance markers in Tanzania since 2016. This work started by building the capacity of two National Institute for Medical Research Tanga Centre (NIMR Tanga) staff by the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) on molecular analyses of therapeutic efficacy study (TES) samples in 2016. It was followed by further training in 2017 and 2019 in which CDC trained three NIMR Tanga staff members.
The Southern Highlands and Ruaha-Katavi Protection Program (SHARPP) landscape is one of Africa’s key wildlife strongholds, comprised of two national parks, three game reserves, one nature forest reserve as well as game-controlled areas, community wildlife management areas and village lands. Working with three regions, three districts and nine communities, the overall strategy is to improve management and protection of connectivity to conserve East Africa’s largest remaining elephant population, other key landscape species and the ecosystem services upon which communities depend.
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