Under the established Ushiriki Tanzania (UT), the Zanzibar UT members who are JUWAUZA, CYD, PIRO and ZLSC collaboratively was funded to implement the ZanID project in both Unguja and Pemba.

The process was made possible under the support of United States Agency for International Development (USAID) through the National Democratic Institute (NDI). The project was aimed at increasing awareness among youths, women and people with disability (PWD) on the accessibility of the Zanzibar identity cards (ZanIDs) as a pathway to access their socio-economic needs.

The major objective of this project was to create a Community forums with PWDs from 6 districts of; Urban, Central, North 'A', West 'B', Mkoani and Micheweni so as to increase awareness among people with disability (PWD) especially women and girls on the accessibility of the Zanzibar Identity Cards (ZanIDs) as a pathway to access their socio-economic needs. The project had a total fund of $ 85,641 which was implemented in a five months (May – September, 2020)