07tasg-4882 - Streamlining of service delivery to the Sugarcane Growers' Associations in Tanzania
The organisation is a federation of 3 sugar cane farmers associations, established in 2000, representing 83 groups and 10,500 individual members. The organisation lobbies the government on the various issues affecting cane growers. TASGA is very well entrenched and trusted by the all stakeholders in the sugar sector of Tanzania and is thus in a very good position to realise its primary objective, i.e. to lobby and advocate for a better enabling environment for sugarcane growers in Tanzania. Tasga is running on a basic budget of +- 70,000 Euro/year which is entirely funded from contributions by the individual members. Funding from this project will allow TASGA to become more performant: - Staff and equipment is added to allow them to cope better with TASGA's many tasks. - the communication capacity of TASGA will be improved - the needs of the different member organisations will be assessed in order to allow TASGA in a next phase to design programs and source funding and services. This info will also be used in a strategic planning exercise for TASGA - one specific program already been carried out is the transformation into Block Farming. An exchange visit is planned to increase knowledge in this field - a new member to TASGA is being established (Kagera Sugarcane Growers Association). TASGA does follow-up on this process and will ensure a firm basis for this new association. - a leadership capacity building programme will be designed and implemented covering all structural levels of TASG (TASGA-Associations-Groups). - more intensive lobbying will be done on different sectoral concerns