| dc.description.abstract | The overall objective of FITCA Tanzania is to increase household income through improving
livestock productivity for people dwelling in tsetse infested areas.
The project purpose is to enhance the capacity of the target communities to control tsetse and
trypanosomosis by supporting activities already being undertaken by populations living in
tsetse infested areas in Tanga and Kagera Region, and utilising low cost, effective and
environmentally benign techniques.
The project supports the development of affordable, manageable and effective tsetse and
trypanosomosis control methods that can be applied by the communities. Disease control is put
in the wider perspective of rural development and poverty alleviation of communities living in
tsetse infested areas.
The envisaged total project duration was 48 months but -for reasons beyond control of the
Tanga Component- the actual work programmes will cover a period of 28,5 months only
(AWPB I: May '02 - April '03, AWPB II: May '03 — Dec.'03, AWPB III 15thApril — Dec.
2004).
The extension year was required to consolidate the outputs achieved by Dec 2003, to produce
concrete results and to promote positive outcomes. The aim of the AWPB III is to complete
ongoing trials and to publish results.
The Tanga Component's activities cover two of Tanga Region's six districts that are affected
by Tsetse flies, namely Handeni and Pangani.
The project area and target group are far from homogeneous, with predominantly small-scale
dairy farmers in the coastal plains and mountainous areas of the Pangani, Muheza and Tanga
District and pastoralists in the more arid areas of Handeni District. The options for tsetse /
trypanosomosis control vary between the districts, and will be evaluated together with the
communities for technical and socio-economical appropriateness | |
