CAYEO is a prominent local CSO based in Tanzania, which dedicates all its hard work with a focus on education through mobile library and digital learning and is determined to spread the light of education across hard-to-reach remote villages of Tanzania for the community surrounded by myriad challenges every day. Apart from education, the organisation is also working on different projects such as community health, agriculture, WASH, Child Protection, Youth and Women empowerment, and environmental conservation. Child education and digital learning have become gradually popular among village communities due to excellent mass mobilisation campaigns by the organisation and are getting spontaneous response from the poverty- stricken community that not only shapes policy discourse and public action and accountability on the importance of high-quality education but also addresses traditional harmful practices, social norms that pose serious challenges to development initiatives. To address these critical challenges, the project invites students to inquire into various aspects of current public policy and social sector program, issues that are creating biggest hurdles for development initiatives especially in the areas of education, with focus on gender parity in digital education, mobile library and infrastructure for e-Library, skill training and gainful employment in respect to lack of access to quality education and school establishments, Internet connection and necessary IT infrastructures including computer in remote villages, out skirts of the cities and towns along with access to primary health care facility. The ambitious program on mobile e-Library movement will promote mass awareness about high quality scientific education among children and youth along with ensuring preventive community health care measures, harmful socio-cultural practices, Zero tolerance for gender based violence (GBV), importance of equal access and opportunities of compulsory Secondary education and bridge-up the remarkable gaps in digital education, gender parity in STEM education that will support and supply technical experts for the flourishing local industries. At the same time, policy research and evidence based policy making, policy advocacy for policy reform and full accountability of the public authority to ensure elementary needs to all citizens that they have every right to deserve through effective social protection arrangements, address systemic challenges for good governance, mass awareness of human rights and accountability of public authority, women’s equal leadership roles in Parliament, social, economic and public sectors. 

This project in Tanzania is run by a well-known organisation under the astute leadership of a civil society leader, with a high level of motivation for social causes and contributions towards the well-being of the community as fellow citizens, and the project is going through all kinds of hardships due to an acute financial crunch. They are facing disadvantages for being a small organisation and donor agencies often ignore them, but they have enough courage, capacity and motivation, sincere dedication to improve the situations of the deprived communities through education, community health, mobile and E- Library, climate and gender justice, agriculture and WASH, youth and women empowerment programs. The project needs technical support to ensure program effectiveness/management through training on MEAL and training on grant proposal writing, networking and advocacy with global donor agencies, necessary recommendations and support for a regular flow of funding to cater the necessary expenditure of the various programs of the organisation. Small CSOs in Africa are always facing a severe funding crunch for running social welfare projects as things have become more complex, as they are facing unprecedented challenges of relevant funding due to the closure of large global funding agencies, followed by an abrupt Presidential order to close USAID. 

·         Support for policy research and evidence-based policy making.

·         Policy advocacy with the Government for strengthening Social Protection systems, addressing systemic challenges and ensuring accountable, good governance.

·         Strategy for bridging the Gender Divide in Education and Digital Learning of Tanzania through relevant program design, planning and strategic implementation.

·         Policy advocacy on a relevant and strong social protection system and strengthening systems of accountability for public action regarding fulfilling elementary human needs, such as education, health and sanitation, social protection measures for the poverty- stricken vulnerable people, and basic infrastructural facilities to facilitate development initiatives to ensure social justice for all.

·         Capacity building on grant proposal writing, project management (MEAL), and institutional strengthening, thematic training on sustainable agriculture and environment conservation and resilience for climate change, WASH, scientific pedagogy and labs.

Networking and establishing strong connections with global donor agencies for impactful change in society through change in public policy and action on education/STEM Education, community health, youth employment, improve in agricultural practice for food security, social protection measures and address femicide/IPV/Gender Based Violence and women’s representation in peace building and security (WPS), equal leadership role in the Parliament.