PROGRAM: Tanzania LOCATION: Dar es Salaam REPORTS TO: Head of Programs
BACKGROUND
Since 2004, CRS Tanzania has led high impact MNCH interventions through the prevention of mother to child transmission (PMTCT) first under the HIV/AIDS care, treatment and support program AIDSRelief and now through its successor program, Local Partners Excel in Comprehensive HIV & AIDS Service Delivery (LEAD). In 2012, CRS Tanzania began implementing THRIVE, a 3-year early childhood development (ECD) program that adopts a holistic, culturally appropriate approach to mental, physical, social and emotional development of children 0-5 and their caregivers. CRS also implements Integrated Water Resource Management projects, which focus on water and sanitation as well as water resource management.
CRS/Tanzania's recently completed draft strategic plan (developed through a participatory two-year process) calls for a focus on three core areas: