MONTHLY REPORT NO 06

1 - 31 JANUARY 2018 YOUTH ECONOMIC EMPOWERMENT ACTIVITY

Zanzibar young women etnrepreneurs being trained on packaging food products at the Zanzibar Technology and Business Incubator. This document was ACRONYMSproduced for review by the United States Agency for International Development. It was prepared by DAI for the Youth Economic Empowerment Activity, Contract No. AID-OAAA/COP-I- 15 -00014Acting Task Order Chief No.of Party AID -621-TO-17-00004.

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AMDT Agriculture Market Development Trust CCN Cooperating Country Nationals CO Contracting Officer COR Contracting Officer’s Representative COP Chief of Party CSO Civil Society Organizations DAI DAI Global LLC DANIDA Danish International Development Agency DFID Department for International Development DCOP Deputy Chief of Party DREAMS Determined, Resilient, Empowered, Aids Free, Mentored and Safe EIA Environmental Impact Assessment EMMP Environmental Mitigation and Monitoring Plan ENGINE Enabling Growth through Investment and Enterprise FAM Finance and Administration Manager FGD Focus Group Discussion FTF Feed the Future GIS Geographic Information System GoT Government of ICT information and communications technology IDIQ Indefinite Delivery/Indefinite Quantity IR Intermediate Result LGA Local Government Authority LTA Feed the Future Tanzania Land Tenure Assistance M&E Monitoring and Evaluation MELP Monitoring, Evaluation and Learning Plan MLEEYWC Zanzibar Ministry of Labor, Empowerment, Elderly, Youth, Women and Children MoU Memorandum of Understanding OVC Orphans and Vulnerable Children PMP Project Monitoring Plan PoRALG President’s Office for Regional Administration and Local Governance PYD Positive Youth Development RAS Regional Administrative Secretary SAUTI Voice in Kiswahili SIDA Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency TO Task Order TOCOR Task Order Contract Officer’s Representative TRA Tanzanian Revenue Authority USAID United States Agency for International Development VAT Value-added Tax YEE Youth Economic Empowerment

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1. HIGHLIGHTS...... 4

2.PERSONNEL ...... 6

3. PARTNERSHIP ENGAGEMENT ...... 6

4. PROJECT DELIVERABLES ...... 8

5.GOVERNMENT ENGAGEMENT...... 9

6. YOUTH AND GENDER ASSESSMENT ...... 11

7. LABOR MARKET ASSESSMENT...... 12

8. PLANNED ACTIVITIES ...... 13

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1. HIGHLIGHTS

The USAID Tanzania Youth Economic Empowerment (YEE) activity it designed to accelerate and increase income for rural youth in Iringa, and Zanzibar. Using a Positive Youth Development (PYD) approach, YEE promotes income growth by creating entrepreneurship and employment opportunities in the agribusiness sector. Furthering youth development is believed to be a key growth catalyst for Tanzania where more than 50% of population is under the age of 25 and 70% lives in rural areas. To empower Tanzanian youth, YEEs utilizes a three-pronged approach: increasing livelihood, fostering leadership and advancing life skills among youth aged 15 to 35. This report captures highlights of the month of January 2018.

Below are this month’s key highlights: • YEE welcomed its permanent COP. He brings over 30 years of experience working in agricultural value chains in rural Tanzania and a deep cultural understanding of the country, people and language. YEE is excited to welcome his leadership, expertise and management skills. • YEE has made good progress in the field by supporting the Iringa Regional Administration to create an entrepreneurship forum. The forum will serve to consolidate regional plans to position Iringa as an agribusiness hub capable of feeding . With the renewed political impetus to recognize Dodoma as the established capital, the push to position Iringa to become a food basket for Dodoma is strategic and relevant to YEE’s objective of creating opportunities to accelerate income for youth in rural agribusiness value chains. • YEE held numerous partnership meetings with other USG funded projects including Feed the Future, Mboga na Matunda, NAFAKA, Enabling Growth through Investment and Enterprise (ENGINE) and Kizazi Kipya, as well the Agriculture Market Development Trust and Ninayo, an ICT agribusiness. • The COP and the DCOP held an introductory courtesy call conversation with the USAID Mission Director. He emphasized the need to ensure the activity’s visibility across all levels of government. • The COP and DCOP joined the COR’s presentation at the Global Youth Summit on Entrepreneurship. During the presentation, the COP and the COR talked about the YEE activity as an example of a USAID funded instrument to promote employability and entrepreneurship among Tanzanian youth. • To promote collaboration with more Zanzibar Government institutions, YEE met with the Director of Youth at the Ministry of Empowerment in Zanzibar. The COR, ACOR, COP, DCOP, FAM STTA and Zanzibar Regional Coordinator all participated in this meeting. Also, the YEE team met with the Zanzibar Technology and Business Incubator, which is managed by Kizimbani Agriculture Institute of Training, an institution within the Ministry of Agriculture, Livestock and Fisheries. This incubator focuses on agro-

YEE Monthly Report No 6 January 2018 page 4 processing of dairy and baking products among others. This meet and greet was a positive introduction to the Zanzibar entrepreneurship ecosystem.

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2.PERSONNEL

The USAID YEE activity is in its fifth month since award. With the arrival of the new COP on January 10th, YEE is ready to start launching project activities. The Monitoring and Evaluation (M&E) team is now in place with an M&E Manager, M&E Officer, and Finance & MEL. The team has hit the ground running by supporting the planning stage of the Labor and Market Assessment. Combined, the three-person team brings over 20 years of expertise in M&E, program management and finance, a combination that matches the needs of the YEE program. In the coming weeks, YEE anticipates finalizing recruitment of the IR2 Lead, Communications Officer, Digital Storyteller and IT Officer. As for the IR3 Lead, Pathfinder is also finalizing the recruitment of this candidate, which will bring forth an important component of the program in matching youth to opportunities that strengthen their wellbeing and enable them plan a healthy future. The Finance and Administration Manager (FAM) and the Grants Manager have signed their employment agreements and will join the project in February.

3. PARTNERSHIP ENGAGEMENT

YEE accelerated engagement with USG funded initiatives that work in the activity’s zone of influence (ZOI). With NAFAKAs’ COP, YEE agreed to work together on piloting an information and communications technology (ICT) request for proposal (RFP) that would be geared towards providing last mile solutions in agribusiness value chains in effect ensuring that inputs and services are delivered at farmer level. NAFAKA also offered to support the upcoming Labor and Market Assessment.

To strengthen business environment for young people, YEE met with the ENGINE’s COP and DCOP. Both projects agreed to forge a partnership to support more youth focused Business Development Service providers through ENGINE’s Bizfundi web platform. Since ENGINE is mandated to tackle policy issues at the Local Government Level, together with YEE they will support transitioning youth funds management from the current, haphazard disbursement conducted by LGA itself, to becoming profitable, revolving funds and managed by competent financial institutions. This would mean Government having oversight of the fund but a private sector provider managing the fund. With regards to youth employment enabling environment issues, the two projects agreed to collaborate in hosting policy dialogues.

YEE also met with Mboga na Matunda’s COP to discuss collaboration in the horticulture value chain. Mboga na Matunda will share with YEE value chains studies they have conducted. Since there is potential for multiple synergies, the YEE activity will host a deep dive between ENGINE, NAFAKA and Mboga na Matunda in March as an effort to harmonize and leverage youth focused efforts from all four partners.

The YEE activity met with the Kizazi Kipya’s COP. Kizazi Kipya has an extensive program that reaches over 700,000 stakeholders, some of which are in YEE’s ZOI. Kizazi Kipya has a focus on economic strengthening for caregivers and YEE would

YEE Monthly Report No 6 January 2018 page 6 like to leverage this initiative by strengthening efforts on livelihoods for young care givers. During the meeting, YEE learnt that another project, JHPIEGO SAUTI (Voices of the Tanzanian People), has a focus on youth economic empowerment in the Orphan and Vulnerable Children (OVC) sphere. YEE intends to contact the project to discuss a potential partnership. Determined, Resilient, Empowered, AIDS-free, Mentored and Safe (DREAMS) also focuses on life skills and is in YEEs’ ZOI, making it another potential partner.

To further leverage resources not just within the USG portfolio but other donors, YEE met with a Technical Director from Agriculture Market Development Trust (AMDT), a USD $52 million, five-year project funded by the Danish International Development Agency (DANIDA), Irish Aid, Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency (SIDA) and the UK Department for International Development (DFID). AMDT has conducted extensive studies in the sunflower value chain and has supported the Government of Tanzania (GoT) in creating a policy around the sunflower crop. With a short turnaround period, the sunflower value chain can produce valuable outputs at each processing stage across YEE’s ZOI. During the discussion, YEE and AMDT also explored other opportunities for collaboration including supporting teaching institutions to develop and deliver relevant curriculum that matches market needs and, thus, equips youth with valuable skills. Besides supporting curricula, AMDT showed interest in supporting ICT related interventions in YEE’s ZOI.

Lastly, the new COP met with Ninayos’ CEO. Both discussed collaborating in market development and linkages for youth to act as market hubs in their communities on a paid for service basis. Ninayo is a web based marketing platform that enables farmers to have up to date market information and links to buyers.

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4. PROJECT DELIVERABLES

The table below shows all deliverables and their status: No. Deliverable Status 1 Monitoring Evaluation and Learning Plan Approved (MELP)

2 Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA) Approved Plan with Environmental Mitigation and Monitoring Plan (EMMP)

3 Year 1 Work Plan Approved 4 Youth and Gender Assessment Approved

5 Grants Manual Approved

6 First Quarterly Report Submitted 7 Labor and Markey Assessment In progress

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5.GOVERNMENT ENGAGEMENT

The COR, COP, DCOP, STTA FAM and Zanzibar Regional Coordinator met with the Director for Youth at the Zanzibar Ministry of Labour, Empowerment, Elderly, Youth, Women and Children (MLEEYWC). YEE learnt that the Ministry services elders, youth, and cooperatives, and focuses on promoting, among others, youth empowerment. MLEEYWC was pleased to learn about YEE and its focus on leveraging resources to enable youth wellbeing. Further, the Ministry offered YEE office space to support with the Labor and Market Assessment in Zanzibar and Pemba. As for mainland, the President’s Office for Regional Administration and Local Governance (PoRALG) offered a translator to support the Labor and Market Assessment Training of Trainers, continuing with the YEE long-standing tradition of engaging the GoT as much as possible to foster project ownership.

YEE team sampling yoghurt produced by an Entrepreneur at the Zanzibar Technology Incubator

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Machinery and equipment for use by young entrepreneurs at the Zanzibar Technology and Business Incubator

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6. YOUTH AND GENDER ASSESSMENT

The Youth and Gender Assessment study report was approved and a presentation at the USAID Mission is set for February 22nd. The Assessment is an important milestone for the project that will enable YEE to start earmarking opportunities for tackling youth challenges. Once all project staff is in place, the COP and DCOP will orient staff on the results and conclusions reached in the Youth and Gender Assessment.

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7. LABOR MARKET ASSESSMENT

The Labor and Market Assessment will begin data collection in February. The Assessment’s schedule has been shared with the COR and all USAID Mission technical leads are welcome to participate in the data collection process. The Assessment will be conducted in eight districts: Kyela and Rungwe in Mbeya, Iringa DC and Kilolo in Iringa and both Pemba and Unguja in Zanzibar. Once again the PoRALG has provided support by providing a translator to support the Assessment.

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8. PLANNED ACTIVITIES

The following are key activities planned for the month of January:

Expected Planned Activities Location Dates 1 Ongoing recruitment and Ongoing February 2018 onboarding staff

2 Labor Market Iringa, Mbeya, February 9th- Assessment data Zanzibar 22nd collection 3 Entrepreneurship and UN compound, February 19th- Employability Forum 21nd 4 Youth and Gender USAID Mission February 22nd Assessment presentation Dar es Salaam

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