The “Jenga Amani Yetu – Building Peaceful Communities in Tanzania” project has been implemented by Search for Common Ground in partnership with Legal Human Right Centre and Zanzibar Legal Service Centre with financial support from the European Union from January 2020 to June 2022. It covered five districts – Mara, Zanzibar (Unguja and Pemba), Mtwara and Pwani.
Tanzania is experiencing a decline in human rights standards alongside increasing restrictions on civil society, media, opposing political parties, and threat of violent extremism. In this light, the project’s main goal was to support and strengthen civil society organizations’ contribution to the promotion of fundamental freedom and democracy in Tanzania and Zanzibar.
The project has significantly strengthened the chain of collaboration and mutual understanding between government representatives and other key stakeholders, including representatives of CSOs, journalists and community members themselves in addressing different social disputes and other forms of conflict. The Common Ground Approach used by Search to strengthen collaboration among the available peacebuilding actors (government, civil society organization and media) resulted in increased trust and transformation of perceptions among the involved groups.
The “Tuzungumze Amani” radio programme represented a central activity with an effective “key people to more people” approach which contributed to raising awareness to the wider communities within and outside of the intervention areas.
