Status of Children in Tanzania - 2012 - Tanzania Education Network ...

Call for Action
PMORALG/
Local
government
Make budget commitments for Child
Protection through District MTEFs
Facilitate dissemination and
implementation of the Law of the
Child Act 2009 and its regulations.
Deploy Social Welfare assistants at
ward level
Safeguard children right and
promote reconciliation to ensure
welfare of children
At District council level they are
supposed to have data of Most
Vulnerable Children in the district as
well as establishing committee for
MVCs and children councils which
are entrusted with the task of
protecting children rights
Through district welfare officers their
supposed to have data or inventory
of all children who need special
protection, as well as recommending
children for adoption and placement
of children who have lost their
parents
Their also charged with the
responsibility of forming child
protection teams at district level. The
teams major function includes
protecting children who are
vulnerable and live in extreme
poverty
It has made
budget to fund
MVCs at district
level.
Supporting
implementation
of the law of child
act at district
council level
Main streamed
social welfare
into local
government
structure so as to
ensure that
children welfare
is protected or
maintained
Created a need
for employing
3000 welfare
assistants to
support social
welfare work
force at grass
root level in a bid
to support
children
They are
mandated to
fund and
mobilize
resources at
district
council level
and budget
for different
activity taking
place in the
district
including
issues of
children
Sometimes there is a
duplication of functions in
protecting children
between Ministry of
MCDG and Ministry of
Health and Social welfare
They are working through
district council by
providing framework for
administration and
execution of
developmental activities
including paying people
who are working to protect
children at community
level like community
development officers,
social welfare officers and
provide support to
community policing.
Impliedly their strategy
have more players who
are in contact with children
who are parentless than
any ministry
However their human
resources are not so
skilled on child protection
issues and knowledge of
children issues
They don‟t have enough
fund that can be used to
protect all children who
are at risk or are in high
need of protection at
community level
Some of the district
council are ignorant about
children rights and cannot
differentiate between child
protection and child
guidance and care
MOEVT
Establish effective child abuse
complaint, reporting and referral
mechanisms within schools Life
skills and peer education
Teaching teachers alternative forms
of discipline
Ensuring right of access to
education for all children
Ensuring effective planning and
implementation of UPE
Ensuring development of early
childhood education, primary school
and secondary school
Providing support to children by
establishing special education
Formulated
education policy
Developed
curriculum
Established few
school for
children with
special needs
e.g. Uhuru
Mchanganyiko in
Dar es Salaam,
Mkundi in
Morogoro
Established
teacher training
college to training
teachers of special
education
particular in
mentally
Entrusted
with the task
of ensuring
that every
child have
access of
right to
education
Some of the local authority
do not have competitive
institutions that can work
and support children who
are at risk
Their main strategy is
provision of education
through public measures,
supported bylaws to
ensure that all children get
access to education,
Provides free primary
education to ensure that
all children get access to
education
The Ministry is also
working through district
council by supporting
primary and secondary
education at ward level to
ensure that all children get
access to education
They have skilled people,
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