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15.	Women Education Development
	Sunday, May 16, 2004
	In 2002, the Training Fund for Tanzania Women offered long term training courses to 43 women. Also, 36 women undertook short training courses to improve their administrative skills and leadership to women District Commissioners.Open the link above for further details.
16.	Gender and budget.
	Sunday, May 16, 2004
	Gender activists, both inside and outside government, have learned this lesson the hard way. Despite commitments of governments all over the world to gender equality, unequal gender relations prevail. There are countless examples of rhetorical commitments that fall short because they are not backed up by policies. Furthermore, if money is not attached specifically and in a sufficient manner to these policies, they will fail to address in a serious way the differentiated needs of women, men, girls and boys.
17.	Violence against Women: Declaration by Women Ministers.
	Sunday, May 16, 2004
	Twenty women foreign ministers issued a declaration on violence against women on the margins of the 60th session of United Nations Commission on Human Rights in Geneva.
18.	Southern Highlands Dairy Development Project (SHDDP)
	Sunday, May 16, 2004
	This programme is supported by Intercooperation in the Southern Highlands of Tanzania aims to increase dairy production and to raise the nutritional status of the regional rural population. Cows with the capacity for higher milk yields are crossbred and successfully distributed to farmers through a credit scheme known as Heifer-in-Trust. Visit this Page above.
19.	Project for Women in Irrigation Development, Tanzania.
	Sunday, May 16, 2004
	IN TANZANIA, rice is a major cash crop and the second most important food crop after maize. In 1985, the Government of Tanzania initiated the Usangu Village Irrigation Project to upgrade traditional rice irrigation schemes in the Usangu Plains, an area with approximately 20,000 inhabitants. The project assisted 2,125 households in 17 villages through the irrigation of 3,500 hectares of land.
20.	Role of women in agriculture.
	Sunday, May 16, 2004
	ILO estimates that in the mid-1980s women comprised 54% of those economically active in agriculture. Approximately 98% of rural women classified as economically active are engaged in agriculture. Women farmers also contribute substantially to both commercial and subsistence agriculture, including livestock and fishing, as casual labourers and unpaid family workers.
21.	Importance of agriculture in the economy.
	Sunday, May 16, 2004
	Agriculture is the predominant sector of the Tanzanian economy. In 1992 it contributed 62% of the GDP and employed 79.8% of the labour force. The major cash crops produced by subsistence farmers are coffee (20.3% of export earnings), cotton (18.7% of export earnings), tobacco and cashew nuts. Sisal and tea are grown on large estates. Farmers have also been encouraged to produce essential food crops, especially cassava and maize.
22.	Developing a comprehensive response to gender-based and sexual violence
	Sunday, May 9, 2004
	Gender-based and sexual violence is not only a health issue. It requires an integrated response that weaves together medical, psychological, spiritual, social, economic, political and legal services. Not only is this approach more effective in promoting individual and community healing, it also avoids reducing trauma to a medical and psychological problem which would strip it of its social, cultural, political, and human rights context.
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