Open Mind Tanzania (OMT)

About us

Open Mind Tanzania (OMT) is a youth-led and youth-focused Non-Governmental Organization (NGO). It deals with opening minds of people, youth in particular through active participatory advocacy and capacity building in areas of legal, social, and economic empowerment to enable them (youth) become masters of their development and main contributors to the well-being of their society, country and the world at large.
The organization was established in June 2006 with the mission of ensuring that people have a sound understanding of youth aspirations and development needs.

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Main objectives
• Imparting entrepreneurship and agribusiness knowledge and skills to youth and women in groups or as individuals for the purpose of helping them to utilize available opportunities in their localities especially in agriculture that they can use to create jobs and employment towards themselves.
• To promote youth-led advocacy for participatory processes in the development of policies that affect access to education, digitalization, investment, health and employment,
• To sensitize the general public especially youth in using legal services so as to obtain their legal rights. In connection to that, responding to individuals legal complains by giving guidance and counselling consigning law pertaining legal problems especially in legal and human rights, also preparing documents for court presentation. Thus providing legal aid services.

What we do
• Open Mind Tanzania main activities are training, research, advocacy, and legal aid at selected public interests.
• OMT is amongst the leading youth-led and youth-focused development organizations in Tanzania in creating an enabling environment for improving the livelihoods of youth and women including fostering their active participation in development processes.
• Services provided by OMT ranges from business skills and entrepreneurship development, agribusiness, employability skills, access to decent work, fostering human rights, fostering civic rights and duties, fostering democracy and good governance, fostering individual and community level economic growth, and promoting access to legal assistance.
• To achieve youth and women’s needs, OMT facilitates women and youth to come up with customized tailor-made solutions to address their unique needs and expectations in a sustainable manner in diverse sectors of social and economic development.

OMT programs are focused on the following strategic key result areas:
• Strengthening institutional capacity & digitalization;
• Increased youth and women access to employment, agribusiness, entrepreneurship & innovation;
• Empower youth to influence development policies, budgets and tax programs;
• Increased youth, women and children access to laws and human rights; and
• Promote educational inclusion, environmet, empowerment and networking.

Dominic Ndunguru is the Executive Director of Open Mind Tanzania (OMT).

For other net participants we can offer an expert guidance through trained staff, give an expert opinion, procure expert information and establish new contacts in the field of our work.