Bilateral development aid - 2024
Tanzania is Poland’s key partner in East Africa and, since 2007, has remained one of the major African beneficiaries of Polish bilateral development assistance. In 2024, NGOs implemented a total of 10 projects for the benefit of Tanzania, while the Polish Embassy in Dar es Salaam carried out 4 initiatives.
Support for the health sector and emergency medicine
Development activities focused on strengthening the health sector and supporting emergency medicine, a relatively new vocational field in Tanzania as the first graduates completed their studies only in 2013. As part of Polish Aid projects, 900 hospital staff were trained in 10 different areas of emergency medicine, including cardiology, paediatrics, obstetrics, and neonatology. Additionally, emergency service officers participated in courses on providing first aid at accident sites.
Developing entrepreneurship and modern dairy farming
Entrepreneurship was another area of focus for development activities. Thanks to Polish Aid projects, support was provided to farmers from the Kilimanjaro region. The aim of these initiatives was to create opportunities for people to overcome poverty through dignified, independent work, and the development of rural communities, with particular emphasis on young people. In 2024, cooperation began between a local dairy processing plant and an agricultural vocational school to promote practical knowledge about modern dairy farming and thus increase the scale of milk production in the region.
As part of the projects, a model dairy cattle farm was established, an irrigation system was built, more than 5 hectares of fields were sown with high‑value fodder crops, and feed production machinery was purchased. The project was supplemented with educational activities for farmers, including local training sessions and study visits to farms in neighbouring Kenya.
Investing in education
Polish Aid also supported vocational education, including through the renovation of classrooms and the purchase of new equipment for the Don Bosco KIITEC Higher Technical School in Arusha. The aim of the project was to improve the level of vocational training in computer science, electrical engineering, automation, electronics, and telecommunications, as well as enabling a greater number of KIITEC students to study and access the latest technologies.
This will also help increase the employment opportunities of young people from disadvantaged backgrounds.
