iWASH, Tanzania

The iWASH program will be implemented is selected target areas of two critical river basins in Tanzania – the Wami-Ruvu and the Great Ruaha. These locations were determined through a consultative process involving USAID/Tanzania personnel, Tanzania Ministry officials, NGOs, and other stakeholders in Tanzania. The criteria used to identify potential sites includes: level of need for water services, market potential for private sector involvement, GoT Water Sector Development priorities, opportunities to leverage to past and current investments through USAID/Tanzania initiatives, and ongoing work of implementing partners.

The overarching goal of the Tanzania iWASH Program is to support sustainable, market-driven water supply, sanitation, and hygiene services to improve health and increase eco-nomic resiliency of the poor in targeted rural areas and small towns within an integrated wa-ter resource management framework. To achieve this goal, the program has five specific objectives:

Objective 1: Increase sustainable access to water supply by poor rural and small town dwellers. iWASH takes a holistic perspective in assessing and meeting community and household water needs through a Multiple-Use Services (MUS) approach. This approach aims to understand and address the different water use needs that face both communities and households, and the supply options for meeting these needs.

Objective 2: Increase sustainable access to sanitation and hygiene services by poor rural and small town dwellers. iWASH partners adopt a hybrid approach—drawing on experience from Community Led Total Sanitation (CLTS), Participatory Hygiene and Sanitation Trans-formation (PHAST), and more market oriented approaches—to motivate and empower communities, individual households, and schools to improve their access to adequate sanita-tion and hygiene services.

Objective 3: Increase the number and capacity of private sector entrepreneurs and busi-nesses providing WASH services. Tanzania iWASH partners facilitate and promote the es-sential role of the private sector in provision of water, sanitation, and hygiene hardware by identifying the constraints to and opportunities for effective local private sector involvement, and then working with the private sector to lessen these constraints.

Objective 4: Increase access to sustainable financing for communities and entrepreneurs engaged in WASH services. Tanzania iWASH activities build on CARE Tanzania’s well-established Village Savings and Loans experiences in Tanzania, while promoting the con-cept of local investment in water, sanitation and hygiene, especially sanitation at the house-hold level.

Objective 5: Increase sustainable management of watersheds and water resources quantity and quality. Tanzania iWASH is implemented in a water resource management framework, aiming to understand, conserve and sustain water resources and ecosystems upon which human populations depend.

Country: Tanzania
Rainfall: Tanzania has two major rainfall regions. One is uni-modal (December–April) and the other is bimodal (October–December and March–May). The former is experienced in southern, south-west, central and western parts of the country, and the latter is found to the north and northern coast. In the bimodal regime the March–May rains are referred to as the long rains or Masika, whereas the October–December rains are generally known as short rains or Vuli.As this country lies in equator here the climate is hot and humid.The easterlies winds cause rainfall in the eastern coastal region.
Elevation Range: highest point: 5,895 m (Kilimanjaro) to ~180 m to Indian Ocean 0 m
Length: At 947,300 km²(364,898 sq mi), Tanzania is the world's 31st-largest country.
Source: Lake Victoria (the world's second-largest freshwater lake) in the north, Lake Tanganyika (the world's second deepest) in the west, and Lake Nyasa (Lake Malawi) in the southwest
Larger Basins: The Wami-Ruvu River Basin, The Ruaha River Basin
Land Uses: arable land: 4.23% permanent crops: 1.16% other: 94.61%
Cultures: Tanzania has remarkable position in art. Two styles became world known: Tingatinga and Makonde. Tingatinga are the popular African paintings painted with enamel paints on canvas. Usually the motifs are animals and flowers in colourful and repetitive design. Makonde is both a tribe in Tanzania (and Mozambique) and a modern sculpture style. It is known for the high Ujamaas (Trees of Life) made of the hard and dark ebony tree.

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