Reports | Tanzania submitted its revised initial report on the implementation of CRC in 1998, which was adopted by the United Nations Committee on the Rights of the Child in October 1999. The report was discussed by the Committee in the presence of delegates from the Government of the United Republic of Tanzania (URT) in June 2001. The Committee adopted the report along with concluding observations in respect…

Reports | Computerising the Gender Sensitive Monitoring and Evaluation System

Reports | The Women's Information Centre organized a second briefing session on Children Issues on Tuesday 17th March 2004. The session was divided into two parts, the first focusing the international context and the second focusing on the national context with an analysis of the situation of Tanzania Children.

Reports | Mafunzo ya Watendaji wa Madawati ya Jinsia ni matokeo ya tathmini iliyofanywa na Wizara ya Maendeleo ya Jamii, Jinsia na Watoto kuhusu uundaji wa Vitengo vya Jinsia katika Wizara. Tathmini hiyo ilifuatiwa na Warsha ya Wadau iliyopendekeza muundo wa madawati hayo uwe wa namna gani.

Wizara ya Maendeleo ya Jamii, Jinsia na Watoto iliyachambua maoni ya wadau na kuyafanyia kazi. Pamoja na mambo…

Reports | On Wednesday August 13th 2003, the Women's Information Centre (WIC) organised a four hours educative briefing session on gender, with a view of familiarizing staff of the Ministry of Community Development Gender and Children (MCDGC), WIC's staff and other interested parts, with the most important concepts and events related to gender. The session was in accordance with WIC's mission to strengthen the…

Reports | Although women's participation in the Micro and Small Enterprise sector in Tanzania has increased dramatically in the past 20 years, women enterprises remain in the low profit, low growth areas. They are stifled by limited education, lack of skills and business experience, limited access to support services and an adverse regulatory and cultural environment (ILO, 2002 & 2003). Numerous interventions…

Reports | The general profile of the United Republic of Tanzania (URT) entails an area of 945,200 square kilometers of which 60,000 is inland water. The country lies south of the Equator in East Africa. The population was 23 million in 1988 (census). With an average annual growth rate of 2.8 percent, the present population is now estimated at 33 million. Women constitute 51.2 percent of the total population.

Reports | This paper examines the efficacy of the law providing for maintenance of non-marital children in Tanzania. It looks into the Affiliation Ordinance of 1949 and reveals its limitations in providing for maintenance of non-marital children. It demonstrates that the law is archaic and provides for inadequate maintenance to non-marital children. The paper discusses several limitations in the administration…

Reports | The Platform for Action is an agenda for women’s empowerment. It aims at accelerating the implementation of the Nairobi Forward-looking Strategies for the Advancement of Women 1/ and at removing all the obstacles to women’s active participation in all spheres of public and private life through a full and equal share in economic, social, cultural and political decision-making. This means that the…