This 2017/2018 Gender Profile offers a renewed perspective into the policy context, new developments, opportunities as well as challenges that either positively or negative affect initiatives to enhance gender equality and women empowerment in Tanzania. The Profile has thoroughly discussed gender equality and women empowerment in connection to politics/ governance and economic sectors/ sub sectors, including trade and industry, agriculture and forestry, energy and water, as well as climate change. In a way, this publication will raise awareness of women and men of the potential trajectory of gender transformation in Tanzanian society..