BRITAM Insurance Limited (Tanzania) has invested TZS 40 million in a clean water initiative targeting two primary schools in Dar es Salaam, as part of efforts to expand climate-resilient infrastructure and improve access to safe water in public institutions.

Tanzania’s ambitious rural electrification program aims to connect all hamlets to electricity by 2030, with over 60 percent already reached. The Rural Energy Agency (REA) is now targeting the remaining 14,000 hamlets nationwide as part of a comprehensive strategy to bridge the urban-rural energy divide and catalyze economic development.

Tanzania has launched an ambitious nationwide clean energy training initiative targeting 1,500 women and young people, marking a decisive step toward strengthening the country’s renewable energy workforce while promoting entrepreneurship and self-employment.

The project, implemented by the Rural Energy Agency (REA), was officially inaugurated by Deputy Minister for Energy Salome Makamba on Bezi Island in Lake Victoria, located in the Ilemela district of Mwanza region.

As the nation marches toward its mid-term development goals, analysts observe that the ongoing energy transition is increasingly defined by off-grid resilience, a model where service continuity is guaranteed by design, rather than by geographical luck. For a surgeon in a remote district, grid variability is a life-or-death variable.

The Puma Energy Foundation’s partnership with Solar Sister, which began in 2023, initially focused on its Business Booster Programme, which provided training and support to 579 women entrepreneurs in Tanzania.

The partnership, launched in 2023 under Puma Energy Foundation’s Business Booster Programme, trained and supported 579 women entrepreneurs, equipping them with digital skills and tools such as smartphones to help boost sales and reach off-grid communities.

By replacing disposable batteries, gas cylinders, and fossil-fuel-based transport with solar power and e-mobility, Mvinza Dispensary has dramatically cut its carbon footprint. It is now part of Tanzania’s journey toward climate resilience—a healthcare system prepared not just to heal, but to adapt.