This is a post event report of the first Tanzania social entrepreneurship forum done at Dar es Salaam Tanzania. The role of social enterprises in Tanzania social economic development was the main forum theme. Enjoy reading.

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1st
Tanzania Social Entrepreneurship Forum
on: The role of social enterprises in Tanzania
social-economic development.
Post Forum Report
KINU, 1st
floor Conservation house, Dar es Salaam Tanzania
January, 16th
2015
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“Social Entrepreneurship is not only teaching people how to fish but also
revolutionizing the whole fishing industry”
Bill Dryton the founder of Ashoka

2. The first Tanzania Social Entrepreneurship Forum on the role of social enterprises in Tanzania Social –
Economic development closed up with a total of 35 participants. The forum was hosted and organized by
TrueMaisha Training Company Limited and got its support from various stakeholders such as Reach for
Change Tanzania who contributed more on leveraging its importance in the context of Tanzania, KINU a
capacity building & co creation center offered a venue and all event facilities, Plan B. Solutions a media and
communication company from Dar es salaam offered the event documentation and Apps & Girls an NGO
empowering girls on Information Technology from Dar es salaam facilitated the whole networking session.
The forum managed to gather participants from Dar es Salaam and few from Arusha region, 95% were from
local and international Non- Government Organizations and the remaining 5 % involved people from
government institutions, corporate companies and individuals who are not affiliated to any organization.
The forum program featured inputs from three main speakers who are experts in social entrepreneurship
and social entrepreneurs from Tanzania; Richard Gorvett the Country Manager of Reach for Change Tanzania
as an expert on social entrepreneurship while Oyite Tungaraja the managing director of Voice Giving Dar es
salaam and Innocent James the Director of My little travelling library from Mwanza Tanzania were social
entrepreneurs to share their experiences.
Apart from that the representatives from different participating organizations were highly contributing
insights as per their organizations’ mission and their personal experiences around the forum main theme
which enriched the learning process out of the event.
Bringing together social entrepreneurship experts and stakeholders from different organizations created a
good platform for networking and empowering each other through sharing, challenging each other which
resulted to learning for future development.
THE EVENT
COMMENT:
“The event is good and a platform for learning and sharing ideas plus knowledge. It motivates much for I have
learnt many things that I was not aware of or shallow in them.”
Participant .

3. FORUM PROGRAM
The main forum agenda had been formulated by TrueMaisha Training
Company Limited under the section of Social entrepreneurship training
team with the main goal of advocating for social entrepreneurship sector
recognition in Tanzania. The program was made of three sessions i.e.
speakers presentations, plenary discussion and networking. However the
presentation session was made up of four subtopics out of the main theme
which was; “The role of social enterprises on Tanzania social economic
development.”
The 1st
Tanzania social entrepreneurship forum took almost 4 hours from
16.00pm to 19.00pm to its closure whereas networking was the closing
session.
Chaired by Erick Chrispin the founder of Tanzania Social Entrepreneurship
Forum (TASEF) 2012 (as an online platform to discuss social
entrepreneurship issues in Tanzania), and the Managing Director of
TrueMaisha Training Co. Limited which is the forum host for 2015 opened
the door for this first live forum to be held in Tanzania. The collaboration of
other partners in Development: Reach for Change Tanzania, KINU, Apps &
Girls, Plan B Solutions, Business Licensing and Registration Agency (BRELA)
and all participating organizations made a full representation of Tanzania
Government, corporate world and private social development sector in the
event program.
The event has significantly opened the door for many participated social
development stakeholders to think of using this forum to communicate
their mission for change to the public, beneficieries and decision makers in
Tanzania. It has also leveraged the creativity opportunity to the stakeholders
come up with more initiatives which will empower social innovators and
change makers in Tanzania.
“Having participants from different field and backgrounds has been
enriching a lot especially during discussion and networking sessions”
Participant.
“The speakers presentations were more of testimonies which real works
in motivating and challenging people. They well managed their time.”
Participant .
COMMENTS

4. PLENARY SESSIONS
The positive tone of the first Tanzania Social Entrepreneurship Forum in Dar es
Salaam was set at the plenary on Friday, January 16, moderated by Cuthbert
Fungo the Managing Director of CCDI Dar es Salaam, the welcome address was
made by Erick Chrispin the founder of TASEF and managing Director of
TrueMaisha Training Company Limited (the forum host). Erick started by
appreciating everyone for showing up before presenting the forum objectives
that its aim is to advocate for social entrepreneurship approach in Tanzania so
as to create conducive environment for social entrepreneurs to successfully
work and establish more initiatives to influence social economic development
in the country. He later on opened the forum officially.
Richard Gorvett the country manager of Reach for Change Tanzania was the
first astounding speaker who came in to present the concept of social
entrepreneurship, its meaning and the role of social entrepreneur in general.
He defined social entrepreneurship by focusing on a social entrepreneur who is
a person that creates startup to solve social problems. He used Reach for
change beneficiaries as an example of existing social entrepreneurs who impact
change in Tanzania. He couldn’t wait to share the mission of Reach for Change
Tanzania which is to improve the lives of children and youth through investing
in and developing exciting social ventures run by high potential social
entrepreneurs.
Oyite Tungaraja the Co-founder and Director of Voice Giving Tanzania took
over and had an inspiring presentation on launching a social enterprise in the
context of Tanzania. In his presentation as a social entrepreneur he used Voice
Giving as a case to portray the motion. Oyite made it open that though social
entrepreneurs are still not recognized formally in Tanzania but there is
possibility to start a social enterprise and gain support from government and
other stakeholders within. He strengthened the point of social entrepreneurs
from Tanzania leveraging their creativity level for them to successfully launch a
social enterprise in Tanzania. He used an example of Voice Giving which got
support from Ilala Municipal council after recognizing the impact of their bus
stop cleaning project in Dar es Salaam.
It was Innocent James the founder and managing Director of My Little
Travelling Library from Mwanza Tanzania who closed the first session by
astonishingly presenting on starting up a social enterprise/business without
financial capital. He also used My Little Travelling Library as an example to
clarify this. He strengthened the importance of making sure as a startup social
entrepreneur one must start by creating a minimal product of any size which
will attract customers and funds that will in return offer capital to grow your
startup venture. So for him it starts with product before even having financial
capital.

5. PARALLEL SESSIONS
The agenda was organized around the main theme (The role of
social enterprises in Tanzania Social-Economic Development).
Apart from networking session, there were hot discussions
through questions and answers around the following topics:
 Social entrepreneurship meaning and the role of the social
entrepreneur.
 Launching a social enterprise/business in Tanzania context.
 Legal frameworks for social enterprise/business in
Tanzania.
 Starting up a social enterprise/business without financial
capital.

6. TrueMaisha Training Co. Limited.
COMMENTS:
The event was very good, it gave an opportunity for people to understand what is social entrepreneurship, how
to become a successful social entrepreneur and promoting people to become social entrepreneurs.
Participant________________________________________________________________________________
Tanzania Social Entrepreneurship forum is a great idea to be developed in Tanzania, let us have more of these
events for it is very innovative and it encourages innovation.
Participant________________________________________________________________________________
The forum is very enriching, the networking session specifically has been fruitful to me for I managed to meet
people whom we are going to start a project together right from here. This is a brilliant platform to be sustained.
Participant________________________________________________________________________________
The forum has been of great success at the beginning, we need to join power to make it happen every month,
we shall need to have a meeting with the organizing team so to discuss how we are going to work together in
organizing these forums in future.
Participant ________________________________________________________________________________
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social-economic development
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