Established in February 2002 Pact Tanzania has grown from a single USAID-funded project to a multidonor program. We began our work in Tanzania by implementing the the Tanzanian Advocacy Partnership Program (TAPP)—the first-ever capacity strengthening program for advocacy organizations working in HIV/AIDS, the environment, reproductive health, human rights and private-sector development with the cross-cutting themes of gender and anti-corruption.

Pact has played a significant role in the strengthening of the Tanzanian NGO sector in the development of skills to effect policy change in partnerships with national and regional government offices.

In 2005 we expanded our capacity building work to contribute to the goals of the USAID-funded a reproductive health program, ACQUIRE, working to strengthen the organizational capacity of selected faith-based health facilities and to mobilize communities around reproductive health and family planning issues.

At this same time we became Principal Recipient of Round 4 of the Global Fund for AIDS, Malaria and Tuberculosis to implement a program to provide services to orphans and most vulnerable children (OVC). The five-year program seeks to provide needed services to over 300,000 children in 24 districts in mainland Tanzania.

In 2006 Pact won a large multiyear project funded under the U.S. President's Emergency Plan for Aids Relief to address the stigma associated with HIV/AIDS and to provide services to Tanzania's most vulnerable children—whether the vulnerability is due to HIV and AIDS, poverty, neglect, malaria or other health reasons.

We implement both of these OVC programs in collaboration with the Tanzania Department of Social Welfare and through subgrants to Tanzanian NGOs and faith-based Institutions. In addition to grants management, Pact provides capacity building to these institutions and organizations and technical training in care taking skills, children's rights and anti stigma.

As a follow on to the very successful TAPP program, USAID awarded Pact a four-year project in September 2005 to implement an advocacy program. The program funding and support was picked up by the U.S. government's Millennium Challenge Account 2006. This program is a key activity in the Tanzania government's fight against corruption and is part of the MCA Threshold Program for Tanzania.

Pact Tanzania provides training and resources to communities, NGO networks, and the media on how to conduct public expenditure tracking at the district level to hold local governments accountable. Training in investigative journalism and providing resources and assistance to journalist and editors in the fight against corruption has shown significant results in the number of corruption cases reported in the media.

Pact currently has an office in Dar es Salaam with more than 40 staff and is looking to expand in 2008 with a second office in Mwanza on Lake Victoria.