Better Solutions For Your Future Tomorrow
We are team of talented open mind making better your future tomorrow
About Us
Open Mind Tanzania (OMT) is a youth-led cum youth-focused Non-Governmental Organization (NGO). It deals with opening minds of people, youth in particular through active participatory advocacy and capacity building in areas of legal, social, and economic empowerment to enable them (youth) become masters of their development and main contributors to the well being of their society, country and the world at large.
The organization was established in June 2006 with the mission of ensuring that people have a sound understanding of youth aspirations and development needs, such as the need for business skills and entrepreneurship development; the need for Employability skills, access to decent work, human rights, civic rights and duties, democracy and good governance, economic issues and the legal assistance.
Our Vision
A youth-led generation is open-minded to address end up poverty, ignorance, diseases, and other forms of social injustice.
Our Mission
To create a society that best promotes the economic, social, and moral rights and responsibilities of all individuals through empowerment programs, training, advocacy, researches, and legal assistance.
Our Core Value and Belief
We believe that the world can be changed into a better place to live if each of the able persons becomes ready to install an Alternative Way of Thinking and join us morally and materially to fight towards alleviating poverty, protecting human rights, and achieving health in body and spirit. From our belief and value, our dictum and motto is ‘Alternative way of thinking’.
Our Approach
We believe in a realistic approach that a starving person must be given both food and hoe. We are therefore committed to working towards achieving sustainable changes.
Strategic Programs: Key Result Areas (KRAs)
Strategically, all OMT facilitated programs are designed to contribute to the attainment of the following five Key Result Areas (KRAs):
KRA 01
Strengthening Institutional Capacity & Digitalization
KRA 02
Increased Youth and Women Access to Employment, Entrepreneurship & Innovation
KRA 03
Empower Youth to Influence Development Policies and Programs
KRA 04
Increased Youth, Women and Children Access to Human Rights
KRA 05
Promote Inclusion, Empowerment and Networking
KRA 06
Promote Cooperatives and Public-Private Partnerships
Our Program Skills Focus Areas
Skills provided by OMT ranges from business skills and entrepreneurship development, agribusiness, employability skills, access to decent work, fostering human rights, fostering civic rights and duties, fostering democracy and good governance, fostering individual and community level economic growth, and promoting access to legal assistance.
What We Do
Open Mind Tanzania main activities are training, research, advocacy, and legal aid at selected public interests. OMT is amongst the leading youth-led and youth-focused development organizations in Tanzania in creating an enabling environment for improving the livelihoods of youth and women including fostering their active participation in development processes
Youth and women entrepreneurship and agribusiness
Imparting entrepreneurship knowledge and skills to youth and women in groups or as individuals to help them to utilize the available opportunities in their localities especially in agriculture that they can use to create jobs and employ themselves.
Youth policy, budget and tax analysis engagements and Media advocacy
To engage, unite and promote community members from different grounds to participate in various productive projects such as environment, agriculture, and alternative energy which will eradicate poverty as well as wealth creation in their respective projects hence solving the critical problem of unemployment by engaging youth within society programs.
Educational enhancement, inclusion and environment
To help create, promote, uphold and maintain upright and respect values of professional, entrepreneurship, academic, moral, and social image of the members and general public, also to deal with peoples’ problems in welfare such as education and medical aspect. Much more, the NGO will promote the education of the vulnerable groups.
Legal aid and human rights
To provide civic, legal, and human rights education to the community especially the youth to open their minds, for that it will ensure that the youth get different social and economic assistance which will help in the implementation of the initiatives started by the government towards the attainment of Tanzania Development Vision 2025.
Call To Action
Taking action means we are exerting our influence on the world to get the results and outcomes we want. It is the creative expression of our being. Without taking action, we are leaving things to chance and allowing our minds to wander.
Projects
OMT implement projects that are hugely contributing to the empowerment of young people and women in areas of operation. Hereunder is a brief description of programs/projects.
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- Past
Youth Employment Initiatives Dar-es-salaam (YEID) Project
YEID is a program under the program Decent Work and Labour Rights in East Africa (DWLR). It is a joint partnership program between youth organizations in Tanzania i.e. Open Mind Tanzania (OMT), Youth for Africa (YOA), and Tanzania Youth Vision Association (TYVA) supported by Forum for International Cooperation.
Contact
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Address
P.O. Box 4859; House No. 4, Gambia Street, Kijitonyama Dar es salaam Tanzania
Call Us
+255 71 366 9044
Email Us
openmindtz@yahoo.com