15 - February 2010

» The Foundation reaches out grassroots CSOs in Karagwe, Ngara

A three-day grants information session has ended at Kayanga town council, in Karagwe district, leaving out participants enlighten with the Foundation for Civil Society’s grants application procedures as well as knowledge and skills of proposal development, project planning and management. The session..

15 - February 2010

» The Foundation increases its grant size, revisits thematic areas

The Foundation for Civil Society has raised the size of fund under its different grant programmes effective from this year 2010). The decision has been made considering stakeholders’ recommendations and economic changes including the rate of inflation since when t..

15 - February 2010

» Biharamuro West MP urges leaders, public servants to work on challenges from the civil society

Member of Parliament for Biharamulo West constituency, Honourable Oscar Mukasa has urged leaders and public servants to accept challenges and blames thrown to them by people during public debates for they contribute to improvement in their performance. Hon. Mukasa made..

15 - February 2010

» Revealing information to the public is a sign of accountability and good governance-District official tells village, ward executives

Ward and village executive officers in Liwale district have been urged to cooperate closely with community committees undertaking public expenditure tracking in the district. The call was made recently by the Liwale district Administrative Officer, Guabert Mbujira when..

11 - November 2009

» TAYODEA shines at the CSOs excellence award

The Tanga Youth Development Association (TAYODEA) gloriously overshadowed the Civil Society Organisations’ (CSOs) Excellence Award for 2009 by bagging four top awards. During the ceremony held in the evening of 29th October 2009 at Mlimanity City in Dar es Salaam,..

05 - November 2009

» Ulanga urges activists to link gender with human development

 Gender activists have been urged to interrogate the relationship between gender empowerment and overall human development if a society is to attain real development of its people. The call was made on 19th of October by the Executive Director of the Foundation for..

05 - November 2009

» Mkuranga youth to learn tracking of expenditure in the health sector

More than 100 youth in Mkuranga district, Coast Region are expected to benefit from training on Public Expenditure Tracking in the health sector and consequently contributing to improvement of service provision in the sector. The Chairman of the Organisation of Youth an..

26 - October 2009

» CSOs assemble in Dar for MKUKUTA, MKUZA appraisal

Civil Society Organisations from all around Tanzania are meeting in Dar es Salaam for a three-day forum focusing on evaluating the achievements and challenges of the elapsing phase of the National Strategy for Growth and Poverty Reduction (well known in its Kiswahili acronym as MKUKUTA) and the Zanzibar Strategy fo..

12 - October 2009

» Government welcomes recommendations, opinions on MKUKUTA

The government has said that it welcomes recommendations and opinions on improving the next phase of the National Strategy for Growth and Poverty Reduction (NSGPR), or popularly known in its Kiswahilii acronym as MKUKUTA. The District Commissioner for Bahi, Dodoma regio..

07 - October 2009

» Grantees Training Updates

In its efforts of enhancing managerial and organizational capacity of its grantees, the foundation for civil society trained 80 CSOs on Organizational Development in September 2009. The objectives of this tailor made training was to enhance the capacity of organizations so that they are able to strengthen organizat..