TANZANIA COUNTRY OFFICE (TCO)

TCO is mandated to identify, plan, implement and coordinate activities and programmes aiming at reducing poverty in Tanzania by developing capacity of people to solve their problems, through: –

• Utilizing existing knowledge and technology;
• Creating new technologies suitable for local conditions;
• Developing and utilizing the potential capacity of local expertise;
• Building a bridge between institutions creating technology and the communities using it;
• Exchanging information, experience and practices;
• Sharing human resource development information in Tanzania and beyond; and
• Creating solutions to the country problems for society development.

AICAD – TCO  has carried out many activities under Training and Extension (T&E), Research and Development (R&D)  and Information Networking, Documentation and Marketing (IND&M) divisions.

To date, AICAD – TCO has conducted many activities including 27 In-country trainings, 11 Grassroot trainings, forty-three (43) research projects have been implemented in five (5) Public Universities of Sokoine University of Agriculture, University of Dar es Salaam, Mzumbe University, Open University of Tanzania and State University of Zanzibar. Since its inception, AICAD – TCO has been participating in a yearly farmers’ Agricultural Show (Nanenane). Since its AICAD has been supporting a women group since 2011 – HKT Mama Kwanza in Kibaha Coat region under Community Empowerment Programme (CEP). AICAD-TCO has also constructed a Low cost house at Nanenane Agricultural ground to demonstrated and disseminate Low Cost Housing technology using Interlocking bricks.