About Nutrition Connect Tanzania
Enhancing Healthier Lives
Nutrition Connect Tanzania (NCT) is an Non Governmental Organization (NGO) established in 2019 and registered in 2022 under the Non Governmental Organization (NGO) Act with Number 00NGO/R/3049. NCT is a membership organization governed by the board of directors with a team of experts dedicated to working with men, women, children, school-aged, adolescents and the elderly in Tanzania.
Our Focus Areas
Nutrition Connect Tanzania thematic areas
Maternal Nutrition
Nutrition Connect Tanzania’s interventions focus on improving the quality of maternal health care service delivery through antenatal care platforms of iron, folic acid, and zinc supplementation, and nutrition counseling particularly for pregnant ...
Infant and young child Nutrition
NCT works closely with health facility workers and community health volunteers in strengthening their knowledge and skills to help mothers improve nutrition for themselves and their babies. In collaboration with government and partners ...
School-aged children
Our school-aged nutrition program aims at improving healthy food choices and physical activity as a way to improve their physical health, cognitive capacity, and prevention of non-communicable diseases. This program ...
Adolescent Nutrition
NCT provides nutrition education, conduct nutrition assessment and counselling, promote physical activity and WASH to adolescent at schools and community to influence adoption of positive nutrition behaviours and determine their nutritional status...
Men & women of reproductive age
NCT provide nutritional education, conduct nutritional assessment and counselling aiming at influencing healthy eating, physical activities and lifestyle behaviors modification to prevent diet related non-communicable diseases ...
Elderly Nutrition
NCT believes that during the "golden years," good nutrition is just as important as ever. Many older people deal with a variety of chronic medical conditions, which can contribute to poor nutrition and can also be worsened by poor nutrition. ...
Mission
To improve the health and wellbeing of the Tanzanian community through nutrition advocacy, capacity building, community engagement and partnership, consultancy and research for evidence-based nutrition essential outcomes
Vision
Our vision is a healthy Tanzanian Community with people free from preventable dietary related disorders
“You don't have to eat less, you just have to eat right.”
Core Values
Nutrition connect Tanzania is Built on six main Core values
PARTNERSHIP
NCT believes no single organization can solve the problem of malnutrition in all its forms, hence we need powerful partnerships and collaborations to solve this problem.
TEAMWORK
We work together across boundaries to meet the needs of our community and help our organization to grow
INNOVATION AND CREATIVITY
We create new paths across the life cycle approach. We encourage new ideas and strive to exceed expectations
ACCOUNTABILITY
We are personally accountable for delivering our commitment through integrity, assuming responsibility for our actions and decision
INTEGRITY
We build trust through responsible actions, moral principles and honest relationships
EXPERTISE
We infuse expertise in everything we do, committed to developing the skills and capabilities of all of our people.
