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EQUALITY FOR GROWTH

Equality for Growth (EfG) is a national organization set up to benefit women all over Tanzania. EfG started in February 2008 as a working group. As of 6^th August 2008 it was formalized into a registered company limited by guarantee and not having share capital registration No. 66935.

EfG’S MISSION

EfG mission is to empower informal  sector in Tanzania, particularly women to eradicate poverty through ensuring their access to legal and human right education, business related opportunities, active engagement in policy and practice reforms and capacity building.

EfG's STRATEGIES

At the heart of Equality for Growth’s (EfG) work is the building and strengthening of groups and organisations of women so that they can collectively influence local and national policy and practice, and claim and exercise their rights for the promotion of sustainable development and improvement of economic livelihood security.  The founders of EfG have a strong track record of supporting communities to participate in development at local and national levels including gaining access to resources for local development, the improvement of essential services and enabling women in communities to realise their human rights. Women in the informal sector have a huge impact on the Tanzanian economy and on the livelihood of thousands of households in the country and they are the major producers of goods and services in the informal sector. Yet women in the informal sector are an invisible group of citizens, mostly unaware of their legal and human rights, not being reached by appropriate social services, invisible in national and municipal plans and strategies and are rarely part of the leadership or participate in the decision making that affects their lives.

EfG aim to achieve the perceived overall goal through the following strategies:

1. Organising women to increase their collective bargaining power and provide a platform to present their problems and demands, so protecting their welfare and livelihoods.
2. Developing effective women leaders who can represent common issues to stakeholders and build the capacity of civil society organisations to support their collective voice.
3. Helping women in their work towards capital formation at the household and micro enterprise levels, by providing legal advice and facilitating access to appropriate financial tools, i.e. regular savings, credit, insurance, etc.
4. Facilitate access to information and basis services to vulnerable informal workers in Tanzania.
5. Promoting sustainable livelihoods and income through improved business and legal knowledge and skills upgrading. The capital formation and livelihood activities help ensure economic empowerment of the women.
6. Influencing market and municipal authorities to exercise more inclusive, accountable, rights-based governance and be more responsive to needs and rights of women, strengthening links between women and institutions.
7. Documenting Market Women’s model for learning, policy, legislation and practice change in relation to the rights of market women and informal women workers in ways that are empowering and appropriate