A youth focused civil society organisation in Tanzania dedicated to fostering young changemakers.
Who We Are
We are a dedicated team of visionaries who believe that young people are an asset. Our commitment is to ensure that young people are equipped with transformative lifeskills, credible information and motivation to become the best they can be.
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A Message from Our Executive Director
When Young People Are Trusted, Communities Transform
Across Tanzania, Femina Hip reached more than 9 million adolescents and young people, representing a 119% increase from the previous year, through our integrated programmes in Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights, Economic Empowerment, and Citizen Engagement.
From classrooms in Njombe to community theatres in Tanga, young people stood up, spoke out, and inspired change. In targeted project areas, teenage pregnancies declined by nearly half, school dropout rates decreased, and thousands of adolescents gained life skills, financial literacy, and the confidence to participate in civic life. Through our media platforms, we amplified young people's voices and reached more than 6.4 million people nationwide.
But these achievements are more than numbers. They represent dignity restored, opportunities unlocked, and communities transformed.
As one youth champion reflected:
“We realized we didn’t need to wait for change. When we stood up and spoke, our community stood with us.”
These achievements were made possible in a challenging year, marked by a particularly demanding political and social environment. We are immensely proud of the young people who continued to lead, and of the dedicated Femina Hip team who kept moving forward with courage and commitment.
None of this would have been possible without the steadfast support of our partners, donors, and communities. Your investment has enabled us to scale proven approaches, strengthen protection systems, and embed youth leadership at every level.
Together, we are building a future where informed choices, resilience, dignity, and equity are led from within communities themselves.
With Deep Gratitude,
Ruth Mlay
What We Do
We influence behaviour change among teachers, heads of schools, parents, community leaders, and local government officials to ensure that young people’s needs for survival, safety, love, belonging, and respect are met.
Over 4 Million youth are reached annually through our in and out of school initiatives
Learn MoreWe employ social and behaviour change communication and edutainment methodologies to engage young people through media, training and outreach activities. These initiatives mutually reinforce each other while expanding our ability to serve our audience. Our programming is informed by youth feedback, national and global trends
Sustainable Development Goals
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Fema magazine
Our signature Fema Magazine has been produced quarterly for 25 years in Tanzania. It has the largest print run in the country. It is a unique resource material that provides adolescents with credible information that is peer oriented. Currently close to one hundred thousand copies of our Fema magazine are distributed each year to in and out-of-school Fema Clubs and partners.
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Fema Clubs (Female & Male, Launched in 2002)
Active in more than 50% of secondary schools across Tanzania, Fema Clubs foster peer education, leadership, and life skills development. Club members explore SRHR, gender, economic empowerment, and civic engagement topics via Fema magazine and activities that build critical thinking, public speaking, and teamwork, among others. Teachers who support these clubs are trained as mentors, not lecturers, creating a safe environment, and engaging spaces.
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Fema Msingi Clubs (Foundational Primary School Clubs)
Building on the Fema Club foundation, the club system expanded in 2023 to reach younger learners through Fema Msingi Clubs. This gradual expansion is now active in over 230 primary schools across Katavi, Tanga, and Njombe. These clubs lay the groundwork for personal development and protection from a younger age. Watoto Bomba is the creative tool behind Fema Msingi Clubs. This child-friendly, participatory manual supports both students and teachers in navigating the transition from childhood to adolescence. It introduces concepts of child protection, confidence-building, bullying prevention, Gender Based Violence (GBV) and Violence Against Children (VAC) awareness, disability inclusion, life skills, and rights education. Trains teachers to run protection desks, serving as safe spaces for children to report abuse and get support.
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Ujana Salama
This vibrant program empowers youth as Champions of Change by training and mentoring them as community influencers and peer educators on SRHR, economic empowerment, Citizen Engagement, and ways to advocate against gender-based violence. It also strengthens community gatekeepers such as religious leaders, influential people, and government officials, to embrace intergenerational dialogue, and champion youth leadership whilst maintaining good governance and accountability. It is currently happening in one district of Tanga region, where high child marriage, teenage pregnancy, and gender-based violence rates are embraced in the fabric of deep-rooted cultural and religious norms. This program takes a brave step toward transforming mindsets and the future of the young people as generational leaders. Impact over 2.5 years: 25000 youth are challenging societal norms around GBV and VAC; and championing health seeking practices; 45% increase in number of GBV cases reported to the police and logged in court; 4,310 (2,035Female and 2,275Male) number of youth, adults and community leaders participated in intergenerational dialogues aimed at transforming societal norms.
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Kijana Jitambue
Based off of a randomised control study, this 12-week extracurricular training delivered in secondary schools, proves that economic empowerment is the best contraceptive. The modules cover topics on SRHR, economic empowerment, and civic engagement. Proven to reduce dropout rates, delay marriage, build solidarity between girls and boys and foster an entrepreneurial mindset. Over 100,000 youth have been impacted since 2013. The model actively engages health service providers, parents and caregivers, local and religious leaders and equips them with active youth engagement skills which enables them to foster a more supportive environment for youth to reach their full potential.
Femina Family Values
We believe that young people can transform society when they develop a growth mindset where they value effort as a route to mastering new skills and competencies.
We are committed to ensuring diversity is respected. This includes the acknowledgement that men and women have different needs and challenges, as do people from different cultures, ethnicity, ideologies, etc.
We understand that young people need a trusted source of accurate and reliable information. We build a culture of trust with our audience by ensuring that we remain relevant, credible and dependable.
We promote openness and inclusiveness by allowing all audiences and stakeholders to share ideas and participate through our initiatives. We remain leaders of ‘open talk’ which addresses some of the most sensitive and taboo topics.
Sincere commitment and dedication to the cause is instrumental for us to achieve our strategic goals. Committed staffs are willing to do more with less and dedicated stakeholders support us to reach our goals.
We uphold our credibility by holding the organization and our staff to high standards in regard to accountability and transparency.
Above all else, we incorporate excitement and fun in all aspects of our work. We not only create entertaining products and activities for our audience, we have fun while doing it!
Over 100,000 Youth Impacted
with SRHR, EE and CE skills through the Kijana Jitambue initiative.
Over 200,000 Copies Read
in-school youth read Fema magazine annually through Fema Clubs.
Over 50% of Schools
government secondary schools have a Fema Club.
25,000 youths reached
out of school youth are advocating for changes to harmful traditional practices that promote GBV and VAC..
Our team visit more than 30,000 young people
as well as teacher/mentors, and other local leaders
Fema Club Network Across
Tanzania.
Fema Clubs utilise active learning principles, which equip youth with skills to self-organise and develop solution-driven projects that respond to challenges that they face whilst being guided by trained teachers/mentors.
3600+
Number of Fema Clubs
Femina Hip movement has a total of 3,694 registered Fema Clubs throughout Tanzania mainland regions and Zanzibar Islands.
For students who graduate from our Fema Clubs and Networks and go on to university we have created a Fema alumni network to facilitate continued engagement and participation with our platform.
Schools receiving Fema magazine
Clubs
Simiyu Region
126 clubs
111 schools
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