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

Call for Action
Ministry of
Justice and
constitutional
Affairs
Responsible to plan for COBET to
those children who missed access to
primary education because of
teenage pregnancy, lack of fees, or
any other cause that block their right
to education
To supervise the enrolment of all
children to education regardless of
their physical status
To develop laws and regulations
governing provision of education
Custodians of all educational
statistic data for children in Tanzania
from Pre-school to university
Justice is achieved for all children by
safeguarding children rights and
protecting them, e.g. those who are
in conflict or contact with the law
Provides magistrate who listen and
prosecute to ensure that justice is
granted to children
Oversees the law reform
commission of Tanzania charged
with responsibility of in assisting
department of social welfare to
develop regulations that are
responsible in implementing the law
of Child Act 2009
Adoption and implementation of the
five years Child Justice Strategy for
Reform
Reduce the number of children
detained in adult prisons.
Enhance protection of children from
abuse by passing strong sentences
against perpetrators.
Register children through RITA.
Enact legislation that promotes
children‟s rights.
retardations e.g.
Patandi in Arusha,
and Tabora
Develop special
program to assist
poor children.eg
Supply them with
food
Developed
secondary school
at every ward to
ensure increased
enrolment
Efforts to adopt
inclusive
education started
by using NGOs
Effort to cut down
years to spend in
primary school
from seven to six
and to reduce the
year to spend
from form 4 to 3
so as to curb the
problem of
increasing
pregnancy
Budget of
education has
been increased
by 80%
Mandated to
enact all the laws
that are
responsible to
safeguard
children rights
Charged with the
mandate to
protect children
and ensure that
birth registration
for all children is
done
Constitutionally
their vested with
powers to
oversee and
promote human
rights and ensure
a justice society,
built on equal
justice for all.
Provide technical
experts that
facilitate the
development of
the law of Child
Act 2009 and
regulations to
enforce the same
Ensuring all
children
rights are
observed and
upheld
knowledgeable on children
issues. They don‟t have
adequate fund and human
resources to be distributed
equally in all schools
The Ministry have limited
number of teachers who
can handle children with
learning difficulties,
learning disabilities or who
have adequate language
The major constraints is
low morale of teachers,
poor working conditions,
low salary, lack of
commitment and limited
funding on various
programmes
Work through institutional
arrangement established
and funded by the
government of Tanzania
The system has strong
network from National
level, zonal level, regional,
district to primary court
level. All these organs are
duty bound to ensure that
justice for children and
protection of their right are
achieved
They have skilled
personnel, knowledgeable
on children issues.
However they don‟t have
adequate human resource
to prosecute children
cases thus living children
un trialled for long time
and subjecting them to
abuse or mistreatment by
police and other law
enforcers but they don‟t
have enough fund or
adequate number of
resources to be distributed
from National to grass root
level
The process of handling
dispute in Tanzania is very
lengthy and tedious which
ultimately leads towards
violation of children rights
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