Catalysing and Scaling Innovation In Tanzania

CATALYSING AND SCALING Innovation in Tanzania: A review of approaches • (Annex) Support mechanisms
Table 3 Donor programmes that participated in the review
Programme
The Information Society
and ICT Sector
Development Project
(TANZICT)
Human Development
Innovation Fund (HDIF)
SPRING
Amplify
Basic info
Timing
Funder
TANZICT was a programme
designed to strengthen
the Tanzanian information
society with enhanced
capacities to contribute to
the achievement of the
government’s socioeconomic
development
goals.
2011–2015 – extended to
2016
Ministry of Foreign Affairs,
Finland
HDIF seeks to accelerate
the testing and scaling of
innovations in health,
education, and water,
sanitation and hygiene
(WASH) in Tanzania.
SPRING was an accelerator
with a mission to impact
the lives of adolescent girls
through business.
2013–2021 2014–2019 2013–2019
DFID
DFID,USAID and DFAT with
Nike Foundation for the first
four years
Budget 5,800,000 € 39,400,00 £ 20,017,000 £ 10,100,000 £
Reach Tanzania Across 20 regions in
Tanzania
Nine countries in South Asia
and East Africa
As a challenge fund,
Amplify explored how
human-centered design
and a more open grant
making mechanism could
drive progress on key
development issues.
DFID
Sub-Saharan Africa, the
Middle East, and Southeast
Asia.
Sector focus
Innovation ecosystem and
ICT
Health, education and
WASH
12 sectors including
education, health and
financial services
Eight sectors or themes
including women’s safety,
climate resilience,
childhood development,
refugee education, youth
employment, disability and
inclusion
Wesbite address
https://tanzict.wordpress.
com
www.hdif-tz.org
www.spring-accelerator.
org
www.openideo.com/
amplify
ToC/logic
Impact
A Tanzanian information
society with enhanced
capacities supports the
government to achieve its
socio-economic
development goals.
Improved access, service
delivery and innovation in
basic services contributes to
better human development
outcomes in Tanzania.
Sustainable and scalable
businesses that have the
power to improve the lives
of girls.
New solutions for
development impact
tailored to meet the needs
of local beneficiaries.
Grantees set their own
outcome metrics to measure
the positive change their
solutions created in the
communities they serve.
Target group
Entrepreneurs, innovators,
ecosystem enablers (hubs,
living labs etc), universities,
government
Entrepreneurs, innovators,
ecosystem enablers (hubs,
living labs etc)
SMEs including for-profit
companies, not-for-profits
and organisations with
hybrid structures.
Amplify funded grantees
which were outside DFID’s
traditional funding pool,
especially small
community-based
organisations from the
Global South.
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