History & Situation

Equality for Growth (EfG) is a rights-based NGO seeking to empower Tanzania’s informal sector women. EfG began in 2008, since then it has sought for voice, visibility and rights of women who operate in Tanzania’s informal economy. EfG was established and registered in Tanzania as of 6th August 2008 with registration No. 66935 and later in 2011, the organization acquired a certificate of NGO Compliance No. 00001544. The targeted beneficiaries of EfG’s work are self-employed women workers, in both the formal and informal sectors.

In the interest of transparency to beneficiaries and donors, EfG is making its audited financial statements available for download. Download our 2020 Financial Report here.

Objectives

EfG has been set up with the following objectives:

1. To facilitate processes that ensure women and men have equal access to ownership, management and utilization of land and other productive resources for enhanced livelihood.
2. To influence and facilitate socio-economic policies and practices that promotes equal gender relations for inclusive and sustainable development.
3. To enable informal sector women to access justice through the provision of legal aid services.
4. To raise awareness to the public on the rights of informal sector actors.
5. To encourage and support vulnerable and marginalized women in establishing groups/ networks and empower them with entrepreneurship skills.
6. To conduct research that will inform our policy engagements, advocacy and organizational development.

Vision

We envision a future where women entrepreneurs in markets are organised, connected, and empowered to claim their rights and solve their problems at the market level and beyond.

Mission

We are mobilising a movement of women entrepreneurs in markets to promote the voice, agency, and leadership of women in the informal sector at the community, local, and national levels through conscientisation, organising, access to justice, research, and economic empowerment.

Values

Justice: We put fairness and equal rights for all first, especially the most marginalised and excluded in our societies.

Dignity: We strive to ensure all people are treated with basic decency and respect; we exemplify this principle in all our interactions.

Innovation: We are tireless in our quest to improve; whether we tinker or disrupt, we start each day with a thirst for it to be better than the last.

Solidarity: We stand together; our power is built on our numbers and our connection. We are a sisterhood seeking change.

Courage: We are resilient in the face of adversity and fearless in our pursuit of justice.

Transparency: We seek and model openness to better serve our clients and the government.

Accountability: We demonstrate and demand the highest standards for the people we serve and for redress when we or others tasked with public responsibility fail to deliver.

Some of our success stories

Mariam

Asha