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

Call for Action
Ministry of
Home Affairs
This is the main law enforcer
responsible to handle public
prosecution and prosecute cases of
children who are in conflict with the
law regardless of whether it is civil or
criminal case
Roll out Gender and Children‟s
Desks in all Police Stations to
ensure that children rights are being
upheld
Police investigates child abuse by
abiding to Standard Operating
Procedures
Put in place referral procedures for
appropriate follow up of child abuse
cases in line with the Law of the
Child Act 2009,
Strengthen partnership with MoHSW
and Ministry of Education,
In all Wards, institutes and
community Policing
Establish safety first Programs in all
primary schools.
Started child
desk at almost all
police station
Train police on
children rights.
Efforts are under
way to support
separation of
children
Start proper
community police
training at ward
level.
Formed
community
services unit to
assist children
who are
unnecessarily in
detention or
those at remand
home but not
sent to court.
Entrusted
with the task
of, protecting
all the
children
regardless of
their health
status or
physical
ability.
Lack of adequate skilled
people on children issues
The ministry do not have
enough people who can
investigate children issues
and report them properly
to protect children right
Some of the police officers
are also responsible in
mistreating children when
they are at remand home,
detention, prison or
waiting for trial.
Lack of adequate skills
and knowledge on how to
question children or solicit
information from children
ending up in violating
children rights
They don‟t have neither
enough fund nor adequate
number of personnel to be
distributed from National
to community levels
Sensitize Police on child rights, and
how to address them from
community to National level
UN Agency Duty bearer
UNICEF Sensitize community on
children issues.
Empower duty bearers in skills
of handling children and putting
their interest first
Working in partnership with
government agency, private
sector, to ensure that
intervention designed
addresses MVCs and protects
most vulnerable children.
Support coasted plan of action
for most vulnerable children
2010-2015 for Tanzania
Mainland and Zanzibar
Support establishment of
structures and systems to
protecting vulnerable children at
community level. (Case of Hai,
Magu, Temeke, Mara, Bukoba)
Efforts are under way to
extended it to addition 25
districts in Tanzania mainland
where they will establish child
protection structures that are
multi-sectorial
Foreign NGOs duty bearers
Save the
Children
Building and sensitizing
communities in promoting
Assisted in child
development policy
Assisted in sensitizing
community to provide
alternative care to
children
Assisted in
conducting research
to establish the levels
of violence against
children
Assisted in supporting
NGOs dealing with
children right issues
Assisted in funding
COBET education
Building capacity of
DSW in strengthening
monitoring of MVCs
Providing skills to
establish the local
support systems
centres on
committees to protect
children
Facilitated
communities to
identify and agree on
vulnerable criteria to
be used by the
communities to
identify and register
MVC using special
forms.
Formed One Stop
Centre in Zanzibar to
Providing
support to
children
Building of
NGOs actors
who are
working for
children
rights
Providing
support and
Working in partnership
with the through
government by giving
financial assistance,
programme support,
donations, material
support and lobbying in
promoting children rights
They are knowledgeable
on MVCs issues but have
many programs with few
skilled people to go down
to the community level
They have skilled people
but they have inadequate
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