Southern New Hampshire University (SNHU) and the Open University of Tanzania partnered to design certificate and graduate degree programs in community economic development (CED) to provide skills training, networking, and technical support to development practitioners throughout Tanzania. More than 50 practitioners from NGOs throughout Tanzania attended classes in the first cycle of the CED master’s degree program, taught by a team of Tanzanian and SNHU faculty. The partners received more than 400 applications for the next cycle.

They established computer connections to support distance education classes taught by SNHU faculty and are offering this nonresidential program in two locations - Arusha and Dar es Salaam. Partners also developed a curriculum that has been integrated into the highest levels of the Government of Tanzania’s development policy, which directly responds both to the Tanzanian and to the East African Development Agenda.