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Direct Beneficiaries: Youth

In Tanzania, there are about 16 million youths of which 10 million are aged between 15 and 24 years and 6 million are aged between 25 and 34 years. There are approximately 8 million farming households in 12,000 villages, translating to an average of 667 households per village. Aggregated beneficiaries across agro-ecological zones; Central zone – 1021, Eastern zone – 1089, Lake zone – 3118, Northern zone – 2132, Southern Highlands -2644, Southern zone -1309 and Western zone 1032.

BBT-YIA’s 8- year goal is to have at least one profitable and sustainable youth-led agribusiness in each of the 12,000 villages. Therefore, BBT-YIA’s 8-year direct beneficiaries are 12,000 youth-led agribusinesses. BBT-YIA will however, start with a bigger number of youth (i.e. at least 200,000 youths),
the selected beneficiaries will be categorised into 4 clusters, cluster-1 youth entrepreneurs in established agribusinesses, cluster-2, youth entrepreneurs whose agribusinesses are yet to be established, cluster-3 youth trained to be the workforce in established agribusiness and cluster-4 Youth with no interest in agriculture. Through the inspiring, empowering and
enabling initiatives, it will arrive at the estimated number of 12,000 profitable youth-led agribusinesses.

BBT-YIA’s approach of focusing on each village is based on the premise that a successful youthled agribusiness in a village will act as a role model to nearby youth in the village and thus stimulate their engagement in agribusiness. The youth-led agribusiness beneficiary may serve as a mentor of other youth-led agribusinesses in the village. The approach also tries to ensure that every youth living in rural areas and small towns is aware of the BBT-YIA Program and takes interest to learn from a successful youth-led agribusiness in their neighborhood. The approach also ensures a fair coverage of all youth in the country. Under this approach, the BBT-YIA slogan would be “Youth Agri-business in the Neighborhood” in Swahili
“Kijana Janjika! Kilimo Biashara ndo Mchongo wa Kitaa”

The 200,000 youths targeted by BBT-YIA will be those aged between 15 and 35 years. Their levels of education will include primary school, secondary school, and university/college. Apart from the 200,000 youth which include the 12,000 youth led profitable agribusinesses, more youth, e.g. those still schooling and others will benefit from the Inspire component of effective communication for mindset/behavior change component, and Empower component of teaching program review. The selection of target youth will be gender mainstreamed.

Youth Beneficiaries’ Value Chains

BBT-YIA will focus on farming and off-farm but in agriculture and food system (AFS) activities
which the majority of youth have been engaging and interested in. With respect to farming, BBTYIA will focus on short-season crops such as horticulture (vegetables, fruits, and spices), cereals and oil seeds. Regarding the off-farm AFS, BBT-YIA will target agro-processing and value addition, trade of cereals and fresh produce as well as food services.

Intermediate Beneficiaries

Intermediate beneficiaries include the organizations, cooperatives, associations, and NGOs that will participate in the implementation of BBT-YIA. BBT-YIA is expected to coordinate at least 70 NGOs across the regions to ensure the attainment of BBT-YIA targets. Other institutions include SUGECO, Ministry of Ag. Training Institutes (MATIs), Centre for Agricultural Mechanization and Rural Technology (CARMATEC), Vocational Education Training Authority (VETA), Arusha Technical school (ARUSHA TECH), private commercial farms such as Tomoni Farm, Nemes Greenish Farm, Magore Farm and media companies.

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