08tasg-5262 - Upscaling and improving capacity and services delivered by TASGA
The organization is the National federation of all 4 sugar cane farmers associations in Tanzania, totaling some 14,500 individual members. The organisation mainly lobbies government and the millers on the various issues affecting cane growers, aiming to establish a better enabling environment for sugarcane growers in Tanzania. The organization normally runs on a basic budget mainly contributed by the individual members. Funding from this project will allow TASGA to become more effective. Main activities will cover - capacity building (staff and office) - improvement of communication capacity of TASGA - promotion of block farming and irrigation schemes - networking with stakeholders and representation of member Associations - leadership capacity building - L&A on different sectoral concerns. The project is a follow-up of a previous project with AgriCord (ending Sept08), which included a strategic planning exercise laying the basis for this continued support to TASGA, and also for specific support to its member associations. The latter will be submitted as a separate project starting January 2009.