The Tanzania Association of Environmental Engineers (TAEEs) was established on 15th October 2004 as a Non-Governmental Organization (NGO), offering services in Facilitation of community based projects (such as water supply and sanitation, solid waste management, public health & hygiene education), Engineering studies, Design, implementation supervision of water supply and sanitation projects, Environmental and institutional development studies.
The organization endeavours to facilitate communities to have access to safe and clean Water, health and standard hygiene facilities through community based schemes by demand responsive approaches (DRA).
TAEEs is legally operated with registration no. 13190 under civil societies Ordinance, 1954 of the United Republic of Tanzania. Whereby it then complied with the new NGOs Act 24 of 2002 and registered under Vice president’s Office (VPO) with registration no. 1632 by 30th September 2005.

The organization is operated under the consultation of the TAEEs board on behalf of its members. The day-to-day activities are carried out through supervision of executive director, assisted by the departmental heads split into four departments

Personnel
The organization has at its discretion a multi-disciplinary team of professional staff consisting sociologist, water supply and sanitation specialist, public health and hygiene specialists, community development specialist and environmentalists. It also enrols short term inputs from professionals in specialized fields on a case-to-case basis.