Tanzania
CPAR has worked in Tanzania since the early 2000s, partnering with communities, schools, healthcare workers, and local organizations to improve health, education, water access, and food security in underserved rural areas.
Many of CPAR’s early school-based water and sanitation initiatives in Tanzania helped shape approaches that would later evolve into the Green Schools Network in Malawi.
Over the years, CPAR’s work in Tanzania has increasingly focused on improving maternal and newborn healthcare and expanding access to sexual and reproductive health services for women and girls. Through community-based approaches and partnerships with local health systems, CPAR works to strengthen access to care in remote communities where health services are often limited.
Key Highlights
20+ years of programming in Tanzania​
4.6 million people reached with program interventions
Focus regions: Arusha and Manyara
1.3 million+ trees planted
Key areas: Health, SRHR, Food Security, Climate Resilience
900+ healthcare professionals trained
Signature initiatives: Healthy Mothers, Healthy Babies
100+ water sources constructed
Country Context
Despite progress in healthcare, many rural communities in Tanzania continue to face significant barriers to essential health services. Maternal mortality remains high, with an estimated 276 maternal deaths per 100,000 live births, while access to care is often limited by distance, shortages of trained health workers, and gaps in health infrastructure.
Women and girls are disproportionately affected by these challenges. Limited access to sexual and reproductive health services, alongside harmful gender norms and barriers related to menstrual health, continue to affect health outcomes and access to care.
CPAR works with communities, local partners, and health authorities to strengthen maternal and community healthcare, improve health awareness, and support more accessible and gender-responsive services for women, adolescents, and families.
Project Spotlight
Healthy Mothers, Healthy Babies
Building on the success of CPAR’s Remote Ultrasound Antenatal Care Access (RUAA) project, Healthy Mothers, Healthy Babies works to improve access to safer pregnancy and childbirth services for women in rural Tanzania, where many communities face significant barriers to prenatal care and maternal health services.
Through partnerships with local health systems and support from Global Affairs Canada, the project trains midwives and frontline healthcare workers in antenatal and maternal healthcare while introducing remote ultrasound technology to underserved communities. Using internet-connected systems, ultrasound images captured in rural health facilities can be reviewed remotely by obstetric specialists in larger urban centres — helping improve early detection of complications and access to timely care.
Alongside strengthening maternal healthcare services, the initiative also works with communities to increase awareness around maternal and reproductive health and support more gender-responsive care for women and girls.