ActionAid Tanzania ("the Organisation") started as an international non-governmental development agency which was established in Tanzania in 1998 under Tanzania Society ordinance 1954 as ActionAid lnternational Tanzania. As of 23 February 2011, the Organisation changed its registration charter to companies Act, 2002 and thus registered as a company limited by guarantee 'limited' (the term was waivered afterwards) and accorded registration number 81643 by business Registration and Licencing Agency (BRELA). After change of the companies Act in 2019, ActionAid Tanzania complied and re-registered with the registrar of NGOs under the new Act of 2019 and accorded the registration number 00/R2/OOO31 as a local NGO.