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About Us
About Us
Improving Health, Improving Lives
Reaching the Unreached Tanzania (RUT) is a voluntary non-governmental organization (NGO) working to address sexual and reproductive health and rights (SRHR) issues and promote access to justice for all in Tanzania through implementing results and evidence-based interventions with a focus on vulnerable and marginalized groups particularly women, children, Adolescent Girls and Young Women (AGYW).
RUT is dedicated to protecting and promoting the dignity, well-being, and rights of marginalized groups particularly adolescent girls and young women (AGYW), women, and children. It is committed to improving such groups' social, economic, political, legal, and cultural status, defending their interests, and eradicating all forms of discrimination and violence against them.
- Sexual and Reproductive Health
- Access To Justice
Our Vision
- A healthy society free from diseases and injustices.
Our Core Values
- Voluntarism: RUT voluntarily participates in its activities without expecting any individual gains.
- Integrity: RUT is committed to carrying out all its activities with the greatest responsibility and accountability while ensuring honesty, and transparency.
- Transformation: RUT is committed to ensuring that its undertakings bring about sustainable changes to the people it serves.
- Service to others: Being of benefit to the needs of marginalized
- Collaboration: Having a teamwork spirit and a healthy work environment with external stakeholders.
Our Goals
Our Goals
To Empower Women and Young People, particularly Young Girls for Economic Independence:
RUT empowers women and young girls by providing access to microloans and stipends, entrepreneurship training, and financial literacy education.
To Promote Access to Quality Education:
RUT is committed to ensuring equitable access to quality education for all individuals, regardless of their background. Education is a fundamental right that opens doors for personal growth and community development.
To Promote and Improve Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights (SRHR) in Communities:
RUT's primary objective is to enhance community sexual and reproductive health and well-being in Tanzania. RUT raises awareness about SRHR issues, provides essential SRH services, and promotes healthier lifestyles.
To Support Early Childhood Development (ECD)
RUT promotes holistic ECD through community engagement, school feeding programmes, early learning, and caregiver education, ensuring children develop health, nutrition, responsive caregiving, safety, and learning readiness
To Advocate for Women and Girls' Rights:
RUT is dedicated to advancing the rights of women and girls, particularly in the context of gender-based violence. RUT informs women about their rights and offers support through rehabilitation programs, placing empowerment at the core of its mission.
To Promote and Enhance Community Knowledge, Understanding, and Appreciation of Nature:
Recognizing the vital connection between a healthy environment and human well-being. RUT aims to increase community understanding and appreciation of nature, encouraging active participation in environmental conservation.
Our Approach and Strategy
RUT uses eight approaches/strategies in undertaking its interventions.
These strategies collectively enable RUT to create positive, lasting changes in the lives of individuals and communities in Tanzania, promoting empowerment, justice, education, access to healthcare, and environmental sustainability.
Policy, Monitoring, and Advocacy:
RUT advocates policy change, monitors programs with data, collaborates with stakeholders, ensures accountability, raises awareness, and drives effective, community-led impact.
Community Mobilization and Sensitization:
RUT engages communities, builds partnerships, raises awareness, promotes inclusivity and shared responsibility, empowering local ownership for sustainable, community-driven change.
Service Delivery:
RUT supports vulnerable individuals with essential services legal aid, sanitary pads, microloans, education materials, and contraceptives addressing immediate needs.
Institution Strengthening:
RUT enhances capacity, governance, financial management, M&E, partnerships, and planning to improve effectiveness, build stakeholder trust, and ensure sustainable support for marginalized communities.
Legal Empowerment:
RUT strengthens beneficiaries’ capacity to exercise rights, ensuring the law is accessible, practical, and meaningful beyond courts for individuals and communities.
Social and Behaviour Change Communication (SBCC):
RUT uses behavioral science–based communication to transform negative knowledge, attitudes, and norms into positive change.
Social Accountability Monitoring (SAM):
RUT engages citizens as key beneficiaries, strengthening their participation in monitoring and overseeing systems to promote a healthy, just society.
Capacity Building:
RUT empowers communities through training, skills development, and knowledge sharing, strengthening livelihoods, leadership, advocacy, and technical abilities for self-reliance and sustainable impact.
Since 2018 RUT's impactful programs have reached and benefitted over 500,000 individuals within to date. Through a diverse range of interventions, RUT has made a meaningful difference in the lives of community members, touching hearts and fostering positive change.
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Economic Strengthening
RUT has built strong donor partnerships. Over the past six years, despite challenging funding conditions, RUT has demonstrated its ability to secure support from various donors, including
