LEAT received 95.9 Million Tshs from Legal Services Facility (LSF) as grants to implement a project on Advocacy for reducting economic gender based violence. This is a twelve (12) Months project started from September 2014 to August 2015, implemented in Dodoma Region at Mpwapwa specifically in six (6) villages in three Wards including Kibakwe, Ipera and Rudi. The project target groups are women and men aged 15years and above and the project is intended to benefit 150 beneficiaries in the entire districts which is 25 citizens each villages.

The main objective of the project is to create the community with fair distribution, ownership and control of economic resources. Specifically the project aimed at increasing the community awareness on Economic Gender Based Violence (EGBV) at domestic level and legal rights access to resources as well as linking women and girls with legal institutions to protect them, and respond to Economic Gender Based Violence (EGBV)
LEAT will work to create a better environment for upholding, respecting, and defending the rights of the rural women and girls in Mpwapwa district and enable them to know, advocate and defend their human rights including life to life, right to decent treatment and respect, equality before the law, right to own property, freedom association and expression right to take part in decision making process at the family, village, district and national level, Duty to enforce the law, right to privacy, freedom of movement, right to work and livelihood, right to have a family and many among others”. Said Glory Baltazari Kilawe (Advocate) who is also the coordinator for this project.
During the implementation of this project LEAT will conduct weekly sessions to peer group on EGBV and legal rights, organizing and conducting trainings of facilitators (TOF)/Peer educators on EGBV and legal rights. Conducting public sensitization meetings through theater for development, produce training manuals on EGBV as well as monitoring and evaluation of the project activities.
LEAT intervention will result to the empowerment in the aspects of Economic Gender Based Violence, Human rights and legal right in the project area. It will also lead to increase awareness on Economic Gender Based Violence, human rights and Legal Rights to communities in Mpwapwa District particularly in the targeted project villages. The project will lead to the identification and utilization of legal services in project villages necessary in combating Economic Gender Based Violence and enforcing of human right and legal rights. Not only that but also women and community members will vigorously report and take action against Economic Gender Based Violence (EGBV)and actively take part in decision making processes pertaining to the control distribution and ownership of resources in their respective villages and there will be reduced cases of Economic Gender Based Violence in project villages.