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

Call for Action
Awareness Raising and Sensitisation in respect to children Rights
SOS Children‟s Villages can consider establishing a sensitization programme at Mtwara focusing on
enabling young mother who are victims of teenage pregnancy to rejoin school and complete their
education cycle.
SOS can work with other child development partners to conduct awareness raising education to
different players responsible in promoting children rights at families, communities and at school
targeting Iramba, Mtwara and Dodoma.
Large parts of population are not aware on child rights and their responsibilities to children.
SOS should organize awareness seminars on child rights and elimination of child stigma at
ward development committee, full councils and community members at village level.
SOS can design a national sensitization programme targeting community/local culture that are
resistance to change e.g. female genital mutilation in Dodoma, Singida, Mara and early
marriages in Zanzibar, Mtwara, Lindi and Coastal region.
Capacity Building and Empowerment
SOS can setup programmes aimed at strengthening the capacity of law enforcement agents in
safeguarding rights of most vulnerable in accordance with the roles and responsibilities
embodied in the law of Child Act 2009.
The concept of children‟s council is fundamental in promoting children participation and raising
voices for various issues of children rights. SOS needs to popularize awareness creation,
information sharing and institutional capacity building of children council.
There is inadequate technical knowhow on the part of implementers of children rights to
support vulnerable groups. SOS can support training for child care staff at different level in
selected districts notably Iramba, Mtwara and Dodoma.
SOS in collaboration with other social partners can provide training and support to frontline
workers, including FBOs, CBOs, Local volunteers, Police, Prison wardens, school teachers,
nurses and staff of child care facilities about child social protection by targeting districts. Such
as Iramba, Unguja, Mara, Coast and Dodoma.
Income Generating Activities
SOS can increase facilitation through finances and human resources to implement child rights
programs and enabling the communities to have income generating activities so that they have
enough resources to meet their needs without tasking their children into child labour.
SOS can assist child headed household to establish income generating activities that are
locally beneficial to the household which have markets, and produce goods and services that
are easy to market, sell and generate enough wealth to the household in order to reduce
children degree of vulnerability.
Nutrition and Food Security
SOS can increase facilitation in Iramba, Coast, Same, Lindi and Dodoma especially in terms of
finances and personnel to implement child right programs, such as school feeding, health
services at school, enough water and toilets, and enabling the communities to have income
generating activities so that they have enough resources to meet the survival needs of their
children.
Water, Sanitation and Hygiene (WASH)
SOS through local government should set aside financial, material and human resources for
effective implementation of child development programme targeting on school water supply,
school feeding, and income generating activities to communities and more specifically to child
headed and elderly headed household.
IEC
SOS can design communication programme or multimedia campaigns to support social norms
that protect children and prevent child abuse and exploitation in Unguja, Iramba, Mtwara and
Mara. The focus should be on meeting concerns needs of children, by involving children
themselves and communities.
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