Tanzania continued to face significant hunger and chronic malnutrition challenges during 2025, including stunting of around 2.8 million children under 5 years, and more than 1.1 million underweight children.

Poverty and limited access to nutritious food compounded this, with an estimated 59 per cent of households unable to afford a healthy diet. Droughts and floods disrupted food production, leaving approximately 900,000 people facing acute food insecurity.

Action Against Hunger implemented integrated, multi-sectoral programmes to address the underlying causes of hunger and malnutrition while strengthening community resilience. This included the prevention and treatment of malnutrition, strengthening maternal, newborn, child and adolescent health services, promoting climate-smart agriculture and sustainable livelihoods, and improving access to safe WASH services.

We also integrated gender equality and protection into our work to ensure women, men, girls, and boys – and particularly vulnerable populations – were safe, empowered, and able to equitably access essential services and opportunities.

Our Gender Transformative Nutrition project improved nutrition in Bahi and Itigi, strengthening community health systems while promoting equitable decision-making, and better access to nutrition services. Since it began, the project has directly reached almost 215,000 people, and over 92,000 indirectly.

Our Equip for In-School Nutrition Services project improved school nutrition and household diets in Dodoma and Singida by promoting agroecology-based feeding, climate-smart farming and nutrition education. It strengthens local food systems and increases access to nutritious school meals. Additionally, our Supporting Maternal and Child Health in Tanzania initiative (Brian Woolf Project) improved child nutrition and maternal health in Dodoma by providing micronutrient services, vitamin A supplements, and caregiver education on nutrition, contributing to improved child Health and Nutrition.