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Despite impressive development and social welfare improvements, Tanzania continues to face considerable development challenges in economic distribution, population growth, unemployment, and education. The high unemployment rate is attributed to limited access to skills training, low enrolment into TVET institutions and a mismatch between available skills and the labour market needs. The Tanzanian Government has taken steps to decrease the skills gap. It has launched a Technical and Vocational Education and Training department and adopted an Education-Employment Link framework which will connect people who have completed their studies with available jobs.   

There are over 100 different languages spoken in Tanzania, making it the most linguistically diverse country in East Africa. Swahili is the national language, while the official language is English, resulting in a discrepancy between labour demands and available soft skills. 
TANZANIA

facts and Figures

  • Area: 945,087 km²
  • Population: 61 million
  • Administrative Capital: Dodoma
  • Commercial Capital: Dar es Salaam

Swisscontact in Tanzania

  • since 1979

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Tanzania
Initial vocational education and training
11.08.2023
SET project provides opportunities for business growth to young mothers in Morogoro
Young mothers in Morogoro Region have set up and are running group businesses following training in skills development through the Skills for Employment Tanzania (SET) Project. The SET project seeks to improve (self-) employment prospects among the youth through the contribution to improved access, relevance and quality of Vocational Skills Development. Two of the organisations providing training and support to young mothers are Creativity for Rural Empowerment and Sustainable Development (CRESD), implementing a commercial poultry production project in Gairo District, who trained a total of 200 trainees and Kinara for Evolution organisation which has implemented a tailoring project with 37 trainees in Morogoro Municipal Council.
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Tanzania
Initial vocational education and training
17.07.2023
Sustainable and Improved Goat Raising and Herding in Collaboration with the Private Sector in Tanzania
From mid-February to mid-April 2023, a training programme for 25 youth (11 female, 14 male), was conducted the Skills for Employment Tanzania (SET) project. The goal of the training was to equip youth with the necessary soft and practical skills to become self-employed or employed goat herders, and thus improve their livelihoods on the long-term.
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Tanzania
06.07.2023
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for Consultancy to improve short course curricula development in Morogoro region
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Country Director Tanzania
Sabine Roth

APPROACH

Swisscontact works in Tanzania as a facilitator in skills development to complement government efforts in youth empowerment.  

Economic, social, and academically disadvantaged youth are supported through tailor-made training opportunities to increase their employment chances and entrepreneurship opportunities. Projects are guided by a unique youth and market-driven learning group model, which is focused on three broad and fast-growing sectors. These are agribusiness, construction, and hospitality, which require more locally skilled personnel to meet demand and enhance growth.  

The Skills for Employment project employs an Inclusive Markets system approach which explores the limits and opportunities in-built in the existing Technical and Vocational Education Training system. The project seeks to improve the prospects of self-employment among the youth through a sustainable and systemic contribution to improved access, relevance, and quality of vocational skills development.  

Since ownership is critical for sustainability, our projects apply a participatory approach which involves joint action planning with all partners. Both strategic and implementing partners drive systemic change and act as multipliers to improve the system. 

Tanzania
Initial vocational education and training, Labour market insertion
Skills for Employment Tanzania

The Skills for Employment Tanzania (SET) Project seeks to improve self-employment prospects among the youth through the contribution to improved access, relevance and quality of vocational skills development.
Youth have difficulty finding employment due to limited access to skills training and a mismatch between available skills training and the...
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Swisscontact Tanzania
Plot no. 105, Pamba Street
P.O. Box 48, Morogoro
Tanzania

+255 282 540 593