Health and Education

Good health and basic education are two indispensable building blocks for assuring productive human resources, quality livelihoods, and the effective involvement of people in civil society and governmental processes. TANGO International works with NGOs, local governments and agencies of international cooperation to improve the quality of their programming in both of these critical areas by providing targeted training, technical assistance, assessments and operations research, project design and evaluations, and policy analysis and development. Our efforts focus on increasing access of the most vulnerable populations to quality health and education services. TANGO specialists have extensive experience and professional training in both the management and technical aspects of delivering primary health care services and of providing basic and technical education. Our work to improve public health covers three critical determinants -- behavioral change for healthy life styles, quality, cost-effective health care delivery systems, and environmental health. We work to improve the quality and relevance of basic education - particularly for women and girls’ vocational/technical training, and graduate level programs for local professionals. In both health and education, TANGO builds on close linkages with specialized national and international organizations and universities.

Child Labor and Education Initiative

BoliviaJun 2002 - Jun 2002

Adventist Development and Relief Agency (ADRA)

TANGO provided Adventist Development and Relief Agency (ADRA) with technical assistance by performing a household livelihood security assessment in Bolivia. This enabled ADRA to develop effective programs that would increase low school attendance that occurs as a result of the high rates of child labor.

Safe Water Systems Baseline Survey

Indonesia Oct 2003 - Oct 2003

Centers for Disease Control (CDC) / USAID

TANGO designed and supervised a quantitative and qualitative survey to determine baseline values of important indicators of drinking water sources, water quality, storage and use practices, and household measures used to ensure safe water. These baseline values will be used for future comparisons to determine behavioral changes that take place as a result of development efforts by U.S. and United Nations organizations. The survey will collect demographic and livelihood data in order to disaggregate water use behaviors by important household-level socio-economic criteria. Then, TANGO worked with local consultants to determine key aspects of water use that will guide refinement of strategies to increase the use of safe water in Tangerang Municipality and Mauk (a peri-urban area of Tangerang District).

DAP Proposal for CARE-Angola

Angola Jan 2005 - Feb 2005

CARE-Angola

TANGO developed a Development Activity Program (DAP) proposal funded by Food for Peace in Angola. The major focus of the proposed DAP is to seek increased opportunities to provide technical assistance and capacity building, and to ensure that government organizations, civil society organizations and non-state actors cooperate with project implementation. The DAP proposal emphasizes the following issues: empowerment of women and girls, promoting a holistic understanding of HIV/AIDS as a livelihoods issue, promoting conflict resolution, good governance, and the social integration of excluded social groups. The DAP is based on CARE’s rights based approach in program implementation.