ORGANIZATION BACKGROUND

THE ORGANIZATION – STAWI

STAWI is a Non-Governmental Organization (NGO) operating in Tanzania.  This organization was established in 2018 and get registered under the laws of the United Republic of Tanzania in 2020. The aim of establishing this organization is to tackle number of identified communities setback that pull back /hindering societal development in Tanzania. STAWI has been given power to operate as The Non-Governmental Organization by the Act No. 24 of 2002, through the Ministry of Health, Community Development, Gender, Elderly and Children (MoHCDGEC) and was offered the Registration Number ooNGO/R/1433. The Head Office for STAWI is located at Swahili Street – in a Building called Sinka Court, First Floor room No. 1A.

Since its establishment and being in operation for some number of year to date, STAWI has been working on developmental programs with a mission of supporting poor and marginalized Tanzanian communities, specifically farmers in their groups,, SMEs as well as Cooperative Societies to rebuild their economic structures in order to fight against poverty by using available resources and ultimately improve their livelihoods.

STAWI has been much involved in community development programs by providing training and facilitation, consultation, advisory, mentoring and coaching sessions as the methodological approach chosen for capacity building. The central focus of this base is to impart knowledge and skills to beneficiaries on Financial Management, Market and Supply Systems as well as the stakeholder’s management. The reason for this alignment is to create trust, collaboration as well as strengthening networking among themselves and to different stakeholders who are directly or indirectly involved in the cycle of their development. Majority of the groups we are serving are engaged in agricultural production, processing and marketing of the products they make. All of the developmental agricultural activities are carried out based on value chain development programs.