ORGANIZATION PROFILE

Organization Background

Door of Hope to Women and Youth Tanzania (DHWYT) is a Non-governmental and non-profit organization in Tanzania striving to promote and empower Tanzanians Youth and Women use their mental and physical abilities, discover and utilize national potentials for sustainable socio-economic development. It was registered in 2017 under the NGOs Act, 2002, and from there commenced implementation of programs in different regions in Tanzania mainland. Current DHWYT has strengthened its interventions in four regions of Mtwara (Mtwara Tandahimba), Lindi (Liwale, Lindi Urban), Kigoma (Kibondo) and Kagera (Bukoba rural and Misenyi).

DHWYT envisages to promote productive participation of youth and women in public matters as the result get access to and improved public social services and trigger inclusive sustainable development. DHWYT believes that, once these two groups are empowered in different aspects, particularly with information, will be able to demand and contribute towards government leadership and structure that delivers services to the people inform of job creation, infrastructure development, quality healthcare, enough and clean water  and education.

Vision

To be with empowered Tanzanians’ youth and women able to use their mental and physical abilities, discover and utilize national potentials for sustainable socio-economic development.

Mission

Promoting the participation of youth and women in public affairs by empowering them in Social Accountability monitoring, Economic strengthening, Civic education, Resource governance, Health Nutrition Assessment and counselling.

Organization Values

§  Integrity and Ethics

§  Innovation

§  Team Work

§  Creativity

§  Respect

§  Transparency

§  Efficiency 

Programs Implemented

In ensuring that our vision is attained, DHWYT has six well designed programs with specific objectives. Our vision states “To be with Empowered Tanzanians’ Youth and Women able to contribute their mental and physical abilities, discover and utilize national potentials for sustainable socio-economic development.

1. Social Accountability monitoring (SAM)
2. Economic strengthening and Entrepreneurship (ESE)
3. Civic Education
4. Health, Nutrition Assessment and Counselling
5. Youth and Resource governance in Extractive sector (Oil, Gas and Minerals)
6. Social Ethics, Traditions and Customs

To achieve this, DHWYT burrow way under the following;

1. Coordinate the formulation of Social Accountability monitoring teams at the ward and district level and capacitate them on Social Accountability monitoring system like Planning and Resource allocation, Expenditure management, Performance Management, Integrity and Oversight role. Conducts community meetings to get citizens to join the team; Women and Youth special representation is the priority.
2. Provide trainings, host dialogues and creating different platforms to raise civic awareness and voters’ education to women and youth so that they are meaningfully and effectively engaged in governance and electoral processes in their communities.
3. Formulating youth and women Worth Groups; these groups are provided with financial education and entrepreneurship skills, savings, processing quality products, save and quality packaging, agribusiness and further linking them with micro and financial institutions to be loaned, this helps them expand and improve their productive activities; these efforts helps women and youth (at household level) increase their income and reduce poverty at the same time have self-employment, enough food and nutrition 
4. Extensive awareness on Reproductive Health, Nutrition assessment and counselling, life skills and hygiene. This is done through formulated VSI Clubs (Vijana Simama Imara clubs) and RM Clubs (Rafiki Mdogo) at Secondary/colleges and primary schools respectively.
5. Media engagement; local radios and social networks are used to reach majority women and youth and promote their participation in public matters, to be responsible and enforce the government to be transparent, accountable and responsive. Go to the link on Blog: https://dhwyttanzania.blogspot.com/ Facebook: https://web.facebook.com/DHWYTanzania/ , twitter: https://twitter.com/DHWYTanzania, Instagram: @doorofhope_tanzania  WhatsApp: https://chat.whatsapp.com/DDRFEae69oYEghTvxJj16q,
6. Weekend VSI Panel Discussions and VSI Clinics the purpose is  to influence and engage majority youths from different colleges and facilitate them on public affairs through social accountability monitoring approach. It is anticipated when youths from colleges will be effectively facilitated and involved in public matters many significant changes at local communities will be realized, especially holding duty bearers into account and responsive, and involving themselves in productive activities like Agriculture and Business and leadership.

 

DHWYT Executive Director Mr. CLEMENCE MWOMBEKI, leading women and Youth training participants to play an energizer after having an half day training session on economic strengthening and entrepreneurship.