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

Call for Action
Plan
international
SOS
Children’s
Villages
Tanzania
Indigenous NGOs
Tanzania
Child right
Forum
child right e.g. Children
council, right to economic
justices.
Promote juvenile justices
Promote of parental care
and responsibility
Build family livelihood e.g.
Jali watoto project
Provide of early child hood
education
Provide shelter, food and
psychosocial support to
MVCs
Provide medical support for
children who experienced
violence
Conduct research to
identify most vulnerable
children at community level,
they are also motivated to
work as an International
NGO
Protect children against
sexual abuse through One
Stop Centre
Providing cash allowance to
poor family e.g. Ruangwa,
Lindi, Zanzibar
Supporting education to
children
Supporting sanitation
improvement e.g. Coast region
and Dar es Salaam
Provides psychosocial support
to vulnerable children
Provides alternative home
under small family settings
model
Provides counselling service to
children
Provide family strengthening
programs.
Support access to education
among vulnerable children.
case of Zanzibar and Tanzania
mainland
Provide after care preparation.
e.g. life skill training
Coordinate networks dealing
with protection and promotion of
children rights
Advocate for children right and
adherence to convention of the
UN children rights convention
Conduct research and establish
evidence based findings to
promote awareness on
realisation on children rights
Monitoring and follow up of the
assist children who
are abused
Assisted in
developing guideline
to protect children
Provided small cash
allowance to families
which are poor and in
the right to economic
justices program at
Lindi, Same, and
Zanzibar.
A well-known
international NGO
with commitment to
children
They have
inadequate human
resource to cover the
whole country
Developed guidelines
to empower
communities
Started health
programs to support
primary school pupils
Developed FSP
program to support
families
Providing counselling
services to the
vulnerable
Providing after care
support services to
those children who are
above 18 or 20 years.
Provide food support to
families, which are
residing in Arusha,
Zanzibar, Moshi, and
Mwanza.
Accept their role and
their doing a good job to
sensitize the country
about children rights
building to all
actors
dealing with
promotion of
children
rights
Dealing with
provision of
support to
communities
Provides
support to
vulnerable
children
Yes, they
have
authority to
coordinate
civil society
organization
and orient
them to
children
rights issues.
number of people to go to
the grass root level.
They are working
according to the donors
preference, so when
donors agenda change
their activities also
change, therefore lacks
stability
However funds committed
are still meagre to address
all the needs of vulnerable
children
Working in partnership with
local government at district
and community level
especially on supporting
education programmes
They have skilled personnel
but in adequate number to
go to the grass root level and
work according to the
donor‟s preference. Thus
when donors agenda change
their activities also change
They are working in
collaboration with local
government to provide
access to education
among MVCs
Have limited personnel
concentrated in few areas.
The model of care cannot
be replicated easily to
cover the whole country.
Their parenting style is
very costly
They work as pressure
group to pressurise the
government to realise
children‟s right
They work as watch dogs
to ensure that children‟s
are protected and cared
for by the government
Lobby the government to
sign UN conventions and
putting instruments to
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