Effectiveness of Non-Governmental Organization Roles in Community Development in Tanzania: A Case of Women Focused Organizations in Dar Es Salaam.

Kideu, Nunu Mohamed (2021) Effectiveness of Non-Governmental Organization Roles in Community Development in Tanzania: A Case of Women Focused Organizations in Dar Es Salaam. Masters thesis, The Open University of Tanzania.

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Abstract

The study examined the effectiveness of roles of women focused NGOs in community development in Tanzania. Assessment conducted at NGOs staff including TGNP, WLAC,and TAMWA and women groupsat Dar es Salaam as a case study. The research approach used for the study involved qualitative and quantitative techniques. In order to meet research requirements and criteria, a designed and developed research instruments including questionnaire development, selection of sample survey was arranged for data collection. The research findings from the study had noted that, most of the respondents were agreed that, the women NGOs had performed their roles to women development effectively as respondents agreed in each role for more than average of 75 percent for NGOs staff and women groups.Furthermore, the incremental progress made in advancing women’s rights by the government and other actors like NGOs, violence against women remained to be widespread in Tanzania. Hence, provision of education in the society for both gender should be more intensified in rural and urban, combined with availability and proper utilization of health services; provision of education to create awareness and knowledge on social, economic and legal rights among women and men; and existence of cultural of silence associated with stigma, fear and social alienation which discourage reporting of violence.

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