Women in Social Entrepreneurship (WISE) was formed in 2003 and it was officially registered in 2005 out of growing concern on social inequalities and increased abject poverty among women and youth. Despite some notable progress made in gender indicators, yet equality is far from being realized for the two social groups. Moreover, existing empirical evidence shows that youth are marginalized in all
spheres of life. Besides, there are poor budget allocations and poor targeting in policy objectives set in the national youth policy and other related policies. Above and beyond, patriarchal, intergenerational power inequalities that do not provide access to and control of productive resources are some of additional issues restraining active participation of women and youth in Tanzania. In this context, WISE was formed by five women - being the founding members, due to their passion regarding instigating, prompting, initiating and activating various development processes at micro and macro levels for transformation of lives and livelihoods of both women and youth in that WISE is not satisfied with just giving its target beneficiaries ‘a fish’ rather than ‘teaching them how to fish.’ WISE will not rest until it has revolutionized the fishing industry.