TASUWORI established in 2014, Tanzania Support for Women Rights (TASUWORI) is a non-governmental and non-profit organisation working to uphold youth both female and male in Tanzania. The organisation focuses on improving the living standard of youth, women and children. As part of these efforts, the organisation works to ensure that young people are empowered to make decisions about their lives. Since inception in 2014, TASUWORI has been working to support the effort made by youth both male and female in ensuring that the group is socially and economically empowered. TASUWORI have established Self help groups in which youth are their major target. About 10 groups has been established with 20-25 members each In Morogoro Municipal and Gairo District. TASUWORI have enhanced capacity of youth in the Agriculture value chain particularly in the subsectors of horticulture, poultry keeping, entrepreneurship and Sack garden horticulture practices. With this project the organization is positioned to use its youth mobilization experience to bring together this group of hard to reach in ensuring that they participate in decision making in their villages and wards.

Over the last two years, Voice collaborated with the Spindle of Partos to launch the Nothing About Us, Without Us! (NOW-Us!) Awards. The awards recognized inspiring inclusive initiatives from Africa and Asia to promote diversity and inclusion, and to trigger the self-empowerment of rightsholder groups and communities. 10 finalists were invited to participate in a week-long human-centered design process where they can reflect, learn, design, and iterate on the next steps for their initiatives. On the last day, they pitched their ideas to a jury who picked the winners to receive Empowerment grants from Voice. The event coincides with the Partos Innovation Festival held every October in Amsterdam, the Netherlands. The NOW-Us! Awards have been positively and enthusiastically received. In a desire to expand its reach and further amplify inclusive initiatives done at the country-level, Voice is planning to have national NOW-Us! Awards in the countries where Voice is present.

The grant applied to TASUWORI and CDEA will support the implementation Celebrating Inclusion. The key objective of this project is to bring together rightsholder voices together and, through an Award, highlight unsung efforts to take us one step closer to a responsive and inclusive society.

The activities that will be implemented in this project include to Work with the Voice country team to identify 10 organisations or initiatives from the Voice rightsholder groups in Tanzania who are already implement amazing inclusive innovations to their empowerment or influencing practice; Organise and facilitate a participatory 5-day inclusive innovation boot camp for the 10 organisations or movements to reflect, refine, and ideate the next steps for their initiative; Organise the award ceremony, preferably as a component of a larger event or celebration where different civil society members and stakeholders gather; Support and mentor the winners in their inclusion innovation journey, including their participation in the Innovation Festival in the Netherlands; Amplify and promote the NOW-Us! Awards to influence national conversations on diversity and inclusion.