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Table 1 Different projects implemented by USAID in Tanzania in response to COVID-19

From: Global Health Security amid COVID-19: Tanzanian government’s response to the COVID-19 Pandemic

Projects Implemented

Activities

Boresha Afya/Improve Health

Supports local health institutions in the implementation of COVID-19 strategic approaches.

Strengthens the capacity of healthcare workers to effectively manage the patient flow for early detection, isolation, and provision of high-quality care while adhering to infection prevention and control guidelines.

Collaborates with community health workers to provide community-facility referrals as well as implement social mobilization activities through the dissemination of social behavior and communication materials for prevention and response to COVID-19.

Promoting Tanzania’s Environment, Conservation

and Tourism (PROTECT)

PROTECT is developing online training materials to help investigators, prosecutors, and other law enforcement agencies respond appropriately to the short and long-term impacts of Covid-19 and other zoonotic diseases.

Medicines, Technologies, and Pharmaceutical Services (MTaPS)

COVID-19 training to health care workers, volunteers, and triage units through an e-learning platform

Data for Development(D4D)

Assessing how COVID-19 is impacting youth and USAID programming in Tanzania

Conduct interviews, and provide recommendations to help USAID/Tanzania adjust activities to mitigate the immediate and secondary impacts of Covid-19.

Boresha Habari (“Improve the News”)

Supports small grant assistance to community radio stations to create and air COVID-19 messages and to provide stipends for journalists.

Data-driven advocacy

Provides technical assistance, expert advice, and legal and practical guidance to senior political and technical staff within key Government of Tanzania institutions and bodies related to the creation of vision, policy, and oversight of the enforcement of Covid-19 public health and safety related measures

Waache Wasome (“Let them Read”)

Providing school and Covid-19 prevention materials, procuring media equipment, and public broadcasting

Tulonge Afya (“Let’s Talk About Health”)

• Provides platforms that amplify social behavior change communications in Tanzania to better inform, motivate and empower youth to adopt healthy behaviors that will improve their overall well-being.

  1. Source: Prepared by the authors based on the available data (SADC Report, 2021)