About Us

BACKGROUND INFORMATION:

Local Entrepreneurship Network and Environmental Conservation (LENEC) is a growing youth-led Organization that operates through legal registration number 00NGO/00006063 under the ACT of 2002 in Tanzania. The Organization targets to work with marginal youth and other local individuals with focus on entrepreneurship, environmental exposures and human-related context that aim to evacuate the constraints which create and perpetuate poverty within the indigenous societies.

                The Organization has the mission of providing significant training based on socio-economic related assistance to local entrepreneurs in connection to ordinal communities to acquire overall knowledge on incidental yielding, environmental conservation and oppression free.

ORGANIZATIONAL OBJECTIVES:

As to reach to the goal, the objectives are segmented to entrepreneurial, environmental scenario and Human related context.

 ENTREPRENEURIAL SCENARIO:

·         To develop business ideas, plans into real ground or ventures using different processes and approaches in collaboration with individuals.

·         To assist both youth who are organized and women associations to have access to macro and micro financing services and proper management of their entrepreneurial activities.

·         To collaborate with government of Tanzania and any person or body of persons within or outside the country to secure the planned and orderly agricultural and agribusiness development strategies.

·         To create and promote employment through labor market and self-employment.

·         To provide training to local entrepreneur on how to start up SMEs.

·         To promote crosscutting issues for social and economic development.

·         To enhance rural entrepreneurs to acquire competitive strengths to meet the features of common market including East African market, in all patterns of production processes and bargaining capabilities.

·         To expose peasants/farmers to ICT Advents aiming at adopting the technological changes in farming and marketing systems e.g Agr Credit Card, e-market, Gene Card.

·         To mobilize rural resource by rising and mobilizing the financial resources for developmental agencies.

·         To collaborate with governmental ministries to facilitate the National Plan with targets in alleviating the living difficulties to the people.

·         To establish a special Trust Fund for common entrepreneurs to have an access on micro credit services.

ENVIRONMENTAL SCENARIO:

·         To rise up an awareness which are based on research on nature, ground causes of marginalization and environmental destruction experienced differently to distinctive places on activities that individuals perform.

·         To involve explicitly local communities and marginalized groups for instance women, disabled, ageing in income generating activities which originate from rural production and environmental conservation initiatives.

·         To develop frameworks that will trigger up children & youth and communities so as to participate on environmental conservation.

·         To join forces with the government, regional and international organization on interventions that ensuring the environmental sustainability.

·         To conduct environmental education programs among children & youth through classes, campaigns, workshops, seminars, against all sorts of environmental destruction.

·         To work on all other things which are incremental and favorable to the achievement of above objectives.

HUMAN-RELATED CONTEXT:

·         To address different socio-economic human need those impinge societies.

·         To design programs which intend to overcome the human situations within the communities.

·         To intervene to the immediate unexpected events that associate to human diginity.

OPERATIONAL SECTOR:

The Organization works on eight (8) areas, namely;

Agriculture

Water & Irrigation

Marketing

Research & Publication

Health Education

Gender & Children

Environmental Education and 

Sponsorship.

Marketing Information

    Tanzania’s economy is likely to grow at approximately seven percent annually for the next two years, with inflation stabilizing at around five percent largely due to falling food prices and tight monetary policies. The current account deficit should remain equivalent to a value of 13 -15 percent of GDP, unless there are significant changes in global commodity prices and in the demand for Tanzanian products, according to the World Bank’s latest Tanzania Economic Update released today: ‘Raising the Game: Can Tanzania Eradicate Extreme Poverty,’ The World Bank report says that, as in the recent past, Tanzania’s economic growth is driven by a number of industries predominantly located in cities, in the communication, transportation, construction, and retail trade sectors. The report argues for increasing productivity in agriculture and creating more good jobs off the farm. But it also highlights that such strategies are not enough to get everyone out of poverty.

     Global experience shows that even when agriculture productivity increases, the poorest families tend to be left behind. “This underscores the importance of highly targeted safety net programs to support the most vulnerable,” says Philippe Dongier, the World Bank’s Country Director for Tanzania, Uganda and Burundi. The latest Economic Update highlights the success of conditional cash transfer programs around the world, including in a pilot program implemented by the Tanzania Social Action Fund (TASAF) which is showing promising results in addressing the needs of the poorest households. Parents who receive the small monthly transfers spend the money on extra food and on education and health of their children. The country’s latest Household Budget Survey shows that 12 million Tanzanians are still trapped in poverty today. At least 4.2 million of these constitute the ‘extreme poor’ for whom life means constantly choosing between difficult options, such as keeping the eldest child in school or pulling her out of class permanently to help grow more food on  the family farm. Without access to targeted safety nets, most extreme poor households in Tanzania depend on their relatives or use other social ties to survive in times of hardship.

As the Economic Update puts it, “the families of vulnerable Tanzanians are themselves often very poor and thus cannot always provide support.” “The experience with TASAF has shown that people can do a lot with just a little extra money and that they tend to spend their money wisely. Some spend it on their children’s immediate wellbeing, while others save to invest or to cushion themselves in the face of future hardships,” said Dongier. “Safety nets in Tanzania currently amount to only one percent of total public expenditure, which is equivalent to less than 0.3 percent of GDP. This is insufficient to urgently address vulnerability among the extreme poor,” says Jacques Morisset, the Bank’s Lead economist for Tanzania, Uganda and Burundi and author of the latest report. “While investments in infrastructure, agriculture, education and health are essential for inclusive growth, well-targeted cash transfer programs can improve the living conditions of extremely poor households,” adds Morisset. The Tanzania Economic Update is a biannual publication which reports on the state of the country’s economy.

AFFILIATIES

UNGO-MOROGORO:

  UNGO is an umbrella organization responsible for initiating and strengthening collaboration, cooperation and networking amongst its members by facilitating capacity building, coordination of Lobbying and Advocacy and linking with external like-minded organizations.

YALDA- BOTSWANA:

  YALDA is a non-profit international organization that was established in order to create a resourceful networking database for those with a strong interest in Africa.

PIA:

PIA is a youth-led Organization that deals with the collection of information from various reputable sources and disseminating them to the people through different means in order to improve their understanding capacity by filling the gap of knowledge.

Chilunga Cultural Tourism (CCT):

Is  a local NGO based in Morogoro, Tanzania that runs the program through Chilunga Nature Conservation which directly involves in designing and organizing the tours and showing tourists aspects of the life they live.

Afro Teen Talents (ATT):

Is a Non-Governmental Organization with the main objective of providing productive outlets for teens to combat poverty, illiteracy, boredom and stress in their lives in Tanzania.

HOW TO GET INVOLVE

   MEMBERSHIP CATEGORIES:

Organization receives the membership through the group of individuals at least five (5) people with exactly or above 18 years of ages who have common goal regardless their sex or race.

  

 MEMBERSHIP REQUISITES:

The group should work in any economic activity as shown below;

Agriculture (Cultivation)

Poultry

Carpentry & Brick Making

Agri-Enterprise

Food Vendors & Vegetable Gardeners

Beekeeping & Fisheries

Mushroom Growers

Arts & Crafts, Women Association and Others.

 BENEFITS TO MEMBER GROUPS:

Among of other things;

Consultation

Business Conversion to Economic-Scale

Credits and Marketing Information

Networking with Other Entrepreneurs

Entrepreneurial Training

Participating into progressive Seminars & Workshops

                                       

For Membership:

Download Application form for Group Membership:

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