Good Neighbors, Tanzania has been implementing projects to help people prosper by creating small businesses. We do so by supporting income-generating activities of those members of the community who have been participating in our activities like saving groups, SSD, CDC, WASH, Advocacy, and others within our CDPs. Income Generating Activities(IGAs) consist of small businesses managed by a group of people to increase their household income through livelihood diversification.
To support the creation of these initiatives, we offer kick-off loans to the most sustainable proposals through microfinance which assesses, train and monitor the businesses before and after the implementation. This provides a much needed boost to their business at the initial stages while also encouraging individuals to take responsibility and ownership of the project through direct investment of their own savings.
The main aim is to assist women and youth in a sustainable establishment of income generating activities to be undertaken in the CDPs. IGAs tend to give women and youth a higher status within the family and studies generally indicate that the greater the amount of income under women’s control the greater amount devoted to their children’s education, health and nutrition.
As GNTZ Model, the identification of income generating activities comes from a bottom up approach. An IGA should correspond to the needs of women and youth within the CDPs,
The income generation department currently operates in two regions, Dar-es-salaam and Songwe region which include seven (7) community development programs (CDP).
The community development program including Kigamboni CDP, Salasala CDP, Madale CDP,Fukayosi CDP, Bagamoyo CDP, Shitunguru CDP and Nambinzo CDP.
33 Income generation groups formed in all community development programs (CDP) where income generation is implemented.
31 Income generation groups (IGG) linked to a microfinance institution receive loans for expanding their business.
The household survey for improving livelihood in urban CPD has been done through the IGD department through KADI as a consultant from Korea.
Organizes communities around issues affecting them and built relationships with local authorities, service providers, donors, other civil society organizations, financial institutions, private sector and learning institutions.
