Past UNV interventions in Tanzania have improved the agricultural techniques of Tanzania's farmers; introduced environmentally sound farming techniques, such as fuel-saving ovens and better methods of land conversation and water catchment; trained community-based organizations (CBOs) in fiancial and business management and leadership; increased the ability of Tanzania's doctors, nurses and other health care professionals to provide quality health care to patients; and improved the health, sanitation, security and the general welfare of refugees in the Rwanda-Burundi border region.

UN Volunteers' current contribution to Tanzania
Today, UN Volunteers are providing support to a number of new initiatives in Tanzania. They are:

• field officers with the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) protecting and assisting refugees and displaced persons;
• assistant project officers with the United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) improving social conditions for Tanzania's children;
• improving the health care sector in their capacity as dispensary doctors, laboratory technicians, radiologists, neurologists, HIV/AIDS specialists, and anesthesioligists;
• working as family planners in Zanzibar with the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA); and
• supporting the Tanzanian construction industry and its workers by participatory research activties in employment promotion and planning.

Over the past year, Tanzanian's have supported the United Nations Mission in Sierra Leone (UNAMSIL), the United Nations Mission in Ethiopia and Eritrea, the United Nations Mission in East Timor (UNTAET) and the United Nations Organization Mission in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (MONUC). A Tanzanian doctor is working in Yugoslavia with the United Nations Interim Administration Mission in Kosovo (UNMIK). Two field workers in Ghana are supporting the establishment of a civic process to improve the municipal revenue system and a district HIV/AIDS adviser in Botswana works with the country's national AIDS programme.