Projects

TMA is one of the subcontractors implementing the PS3 Plus project, which is a five-year USAID-funded project. In this project, TMA has hired 34 technical staff to implement the project. Specifically, TMA is leading or contributing to the following:

1. Provide leadership, technical assistance, implementation support, and institutionalization for nationwide strengthening of Government of Tanzania (GOT) information systems with a focus on systems analysis (or the program support, operations, and maintenance side of IT and systems).
2. Provide technical assistance and implementation support for regional/LGA finance activities including public finance management and direct facility financing.
3. Provide technical assistance and implementation support for regional/LGA/facility citizen and community engagement through a focus on the development of health facility and school governing committees/boards including their functioning and ability to reach out to their citizens and communities.
4. Take the lead in the management of regional/LGA operations including regional program management and transport/drivers in selected project regions/LGAs

Funder: USAID

TMA in collaboration with the Malaria National Control Program is currently undertaking a Malaria stratification project. The purpose of this project is to develop an electronic microstratification tool to be used by CHMTs to prepare malaria transmission risk strata at ward levels in Tanzania’s Mainland. The project is supported by the SWISS-PH agency. It is envisaged that this tool will simplify the malaria risk stratification exercise at the Council level and facilitate the targeting of interventions and effective

Funder: SWISS-PH

TMA in collaboration with Option Tanzania is implementing the WISH2ACTION project that aims at increasing access to family planning and integrated sexual reproductive health and rights (SRHR) in Tanzania. This project is implemented in two regions the Dodoma and Mara region. In this project, TMA in collaboration with other CSOs has joined forces with government officials including the RHMTs and CHMT to ensure the health facilities allocate funds solely for family planning. In addition, assist the RHMTs and CHMT in tracking the expenditure of the funds that were allocated for family planning. The purpose of this project is to advocate all issues of family planning. To date, the accountability team has worked with government officials especially RHMTs and CHMT’s to ensure that health facilities are providing youth friendly services, reducing teenage pregnancy, ensuring equal access for adolescents with disabilities to SRH services, and increasing the use of modern contraceptive methods.

Funder: UKAID

TMA is one of the subcontractors that implemented the Public Sector System Strengthening (PS3) Project in Tanzania. The purpose of USAID’s five-year PS3 Project is to strengthen existing Government of Tanzania (GOT) systems at national and local levels to improve service delivery across sectors including Water, health, education, and agriculture. PS3 provides support both at the national level and Local level for the operationalization of key strategies, policies, and guidelines such as the Water and Sanitation strategy, National Health Care Financing Strategy, the Health Sector Strategic Plan IV, the Human Resources for Health Strategy, the Social Welfare Strategy, and the e-Health Strategy. At the Local Government Authority (LGA) level, PS3 is focusing on translating national guidance into action, while informing the national dialogue based on LGA-level realities on the ground. TMA in PS3 is leading on 4 components of the project which are information Systems, governance and Citizen Engagement, Finance, and Human Resources. Moreover, TMA also contributes to the Monitoring and Evaluation and Operation Research which is a cross-cutting component. Through PS3, TMA has developed several Information systems that have tremendously improved health services including HIV and AIDS services.

Funder: USAID

TMA in collaboration with Women’s Global Network for Reproductive Rights–Africa (WGNRR Africa) is developing a mobile application for Sexual and Reproductive Health (SRH) that intends to facilitate access to Sexual and Reproductive Health information and services through an online platform. The online platform shall contain SRH information, such as Family planning, sexually transmitted infections/diseases, menstrual health, and post-abortion care in alignment with the World Health Organization (WHO) and The Ministry of Health (MoH) guidelines. It will offer the possibility to refer the patient to identified health facilities. The online platform shall be accessible via mobile application in both Android and IOS operating systems.

Funder: SWISS PH

TMA is currently implementing SpeedyFinances Afya Yangu–(SF Afya Yangu) innovation to accelerate the achievement of Universal Health Coverage (UHC) as an effort to compliment Sustainable Development Goal Number 3 which is to ensure healthy lives and promote well-being for all ages. The advantage of SF-Afya Yangu as compared to the traditional way of purchasing health insurance is that the system is linked to all individual expenditures and accumulates points as the individual purchases goods and services. At the end of the year, the bonus accumulated is converted to purchase health insurance bundles for the individual, spouse, and dependents.

This innovation will motivate people to use SF-Afya Yangu as a payment gateway to all their expenditures because they will as a result benefit from the health insurance bundle. Another advantage of using SF-Afya Yangu is that people who are employed and covered with health insurance can buy insurance coverage for their friends and hence accelerate the achievement of UHC. This innovation will accelerate UHC for less than 10 years as compared to the traditional way which will take centuries to achieve UHC.

Funder: TMA Own Sources

TMA was awarded a project to support the Christian Social Service Commission to build the capacity of Hospital Management teams of 64 Hospitals to develop Comprehensive Hospital Operations Plans (CHOP) and orientation of OPRAS. TMA provided mentoring support on how to develop a hospital plan that addresses the health needs of the communities including health and sanitation. Major achievements made in this project were the development of CHOPs that addressed the needs of the community, and community involvement in the planning process including women and youth. A total of 256 Hospital leaders where 102 were female (47%) and 154 males (53%) were capacitated on the approach to develop quality plans that brings desired results.

Funder: USAID

TMA in collaboration with Ecorys is implementing Own Source Revenue Straightening Program under the Dar Es Salaam Metropolitan development project. TMA is leading the implementation of the following objectives:

1. Strengthen urban LGA capacity and improve existing practices to collect OSR
2. Improve urban LGA’s ability to accurately project OSR potential and set realistic OSR budget targets
3. Identify new and existing high potential, yet-to-date under-collected, LGA OSR sources
4. Identify policy changes aimed at improving LGA OSR and central government revenue sources linked to LGA OSR collection
5. Provide a platform for LGA-related OSR policy dialogue
6. Strengthen Regional Administrative Secretaries (RAS) and PO-RALG HQ capacity to monitor and support urban LGA efforts to strengthen the collection of OSR, as well as projecting and budgeting for OSR

Funder: World Bank

TMA is one of the subcontractors implementing DFID, PFM RP V Project, 2019-2023. In this project, TMA provides technical assistance and support to the Regional Secretariats (RS) in 8 regions of Tanzania. Specifically, TMA is contributing to the following core tasks:

1. Build skills of RS and the team responsible for PFM reform at the regional level in overall program management including general management, resource planning, quality assurance, and internal monitoring and reporting.
2. Provide dedicated technical support and assistance to develop technical and managerial capacity within the Regional Secretariat and LGAs.
3. Coordinate with and support the central TA team and PO-RALG for effective program coordination and delivery.
4. Facilitate RS/LGA participation in nationwide regional review meetings (2nd and 4^th quarter) and sub-national review meetings (1st and 3rd quarter), including support to RSs to contribute effective reporting and feedback.

Funder: UKAID