Save the Children Country Strategic Plan 2019-2021

The programme entails a number of goals and several partner organizations. The six strategic goals are ambitious and broad, e.g., improved accountability by the Government to fulfil child rights in Tanzania and Children are protected from all forms of violence. In 2020, Save the Children continued working with the Government of Tanzania and 14 civil society partners to deliver our promise of immediate and lasting change to lives of children through Child Rights Governance, Child Protection, Health and Nutrition and Education interventions in 9 regions across the country. Over the three-year of support, Save the Childrens programs in Tanzania reached over 4.2 million people directly, while messages and campaigns reached a further 7.9 million people indirectly. The impact of the program has been widespread and led to children receiving quality child protection services as a result of strengthened child protection system, where more children are experiencing being safe and in good relationships with parents and are confident to report Violence Against Children (VAC) to appropriate authorities. The following results are reported; 1.Increased reporting of cases due to awareness raising, in Mbozi District, the number of Gender Based Violence (GBV) and VAC-cases reported to child protection providers (the Social Welfare Office and Police Gender and Children) increased by 343% from 223 in 2019 to 988 in 2021 2.The trained committees were alerted about children sent out of Mbozi district for domestic work due to the closure of schools because of Covid-19. The committees were able to ensure that 93% (419 children: 195 girls, 224 boys) out of 446 children (213 girls, 233 boys) returned to schools safely, and will continued to follow up on the remaining children. 3.In Zanzibar, the One Stop Centres (OSCs) have seen an increase in reported cases from 2,603 cases in 2019 to 3,671 in 2021, an increase of 41%. This has been achieved as a direct result of various protection awareness interventions with the communities in Zanzibar, and an investment in the quality of services offered at OSCs 4.In Zanzibar the 2020 survey showed that 97% of the children reported that, since starting participation in the PwV sessions, their relationship with their parents/caregivers had improved by 98% among boys and 97% among girls. Moreover, 73% of the interviewed children knew where they could get help in case of PHP. 5.After intensive sensitisation sessions the 71% of community members in Mbozi disagree with the use of Physical and Humiliating Punishment (PHP) in child-rearing and mentioned death, severe injuries and disabilities as impacts of PHP. 74% of the children stated that the relationship with their parents at home has improved because they get their needs 6. As a result of Save the Childrens Safe School Programming, girls and boys of 28 schools and 10 schools in Mbozi and Kinondoni respectively have their improved knowledge and skills on violence awareness and know where to get help in cases of PHP or sexual violence and how to protect themselves and their peers against VAC. 7.Improvement in academic performance as students now use suggestion boxes to report teachers who are not attending classes. The reported teachers were contacted by the academic department and a verbal warning was given to them. 8.Improvement in WASH facilities at school. In the Halungu Secondary school, children raised a concern about the toilets, as girls had only four washrooms for 320 girls. The school has now built 14 other toilets for girls. Supply of water channels in restrooms and a handwashing chamber was also constructed at the Itete Primary School. 9.Some children reported teachers who sexually harassed other children; these cases were referred to the Teachers Service Commission. One of the teachers lost his employment. 10.Three schools have established girls changing rooms. 11.Students helped their fellow classmates who were victims of abuse by addressing their issues on behalf of them in the suggestion box so that they could get help from their teachers. 12.Bullying amongst children decreased due to awareness of child rights and VAC.

The development intervention envisions a world in which every child attains the right to survival, protection, development and participation. The mission of the development intervention is to inspire changes in the way the world treats children, and to achieve immediate and lasting change in their lives. The development intervention has identified intentions at Global level that are to be translated at national level. The global intentions 2030 are 1) Survive: No Child dies from preventable causes before their 5th birthday 2) Learn: all Children learn from a quality basic education and 3) Be protected: Violence against Children is no longer tolerated. The intervention intends to reach 722,950 most deprived children in ten regions in Tanzania i.e. (Dar es Salaam, Dodoma, Katavi, Kigoma, Shinyanga, Singida, Songwe, Rukwa, Tabora, and Zanzibar) by 2021 with various services i.e. child protection, health, education, and good governance. It will also engage with 32,300 stakeholders in monitoring and demanding child rights, promoting coordinated actions for child protection systems, providing basic education and participating in discussions on public investment in children. Furthermore, it will work to ensure that policies and national resources established as an outcome of its programming are designed to benefit the most deprived. SC intends to measure its results in terms of the tangible improvements it makes in the lives of the most deprived children. Save the Children's Tanzania Country Programme will continue to focus on its five key programmatic areas i.e. Child Protection, Child Rights Governance, Health and Nutrition, Education with an increased focus of documenting and sharing the results of various innovations. A gender audit performed in 2018 will determine the different gender needs within the organisation. Based on the gender audit, the current programming will have an increased focus on the different gender needs of its beneficiaries for example in Child Protection, the interventions will include engagement of men and boys to challenge the values and norms around negative masculinities and female dominated parenting, community dialogues on gender based norms that are harmful to children and women as well as the roles of fathers and men to protect boys and girls. Staff will also be trained and mentored in the Save the Children Gender Equity Programme Guidance and Toolkit which would enable them to become more effective in followup of results with a gender lens. Gender equality will be mainstreamed across all strategic goals. The Embassy will followup the acheivements attained during the previous support through the external evaluation of the SC Country Strategy Plan 2016 - 2018. The strategic goals of the programme in Tanzania will be: 1) Improved accountability by the Government to fulfill child rights in Tanzania- this is the central core of child rights governance to SC work and its collaborators in Tanzania. 2) Children are protected from all forms of violence- there is a high prevalence of violence which is experienced by chidlren throughout the country. The policy environment to adress this issue is favourable despite the political environment being challenging. 3) Children involved in or at risk of harmful work, including refugees and migrants, are able to access protection services- Migrant and refugee children, most often at risk of participating in harmful work, are some of the most vulnerable children in Tanzania. the vast majority of these children do not receive any protection services from the state or civil society. 4) Children ages 0-13 demonstrate age appropriate learning outcomes-  Early childhood and basic education is an underlying issue to other strategic goals that have been prioritised. 5) Children below five years consume an appropriate quantity and quality of foods to meet their dietary needs during all times of the year- Favourable policy environment and critical period ( first 1000 days) to ensure children can acheive their full potential. 6) Adolescent pregnancies are reduced through improved services, legal framework and education on girls rights- Although the policy environment is not favourable, there is a need to be bold and ensure that adolescent girls, including young mothers, can fulfill their rights 7) Increased access to and coverage of high impact maternal and newborn interventions- this is core to SC work, and aligns with expertise in the Tanzania Country Programme. The existence of child rights networks and forums in Tanzania is considered to be an opportunity for implementing and monitoring child rights issues, although there could be a challenge in coordination for recommendations for key international instruments such as the UNCRC. The development intervention intends to lead by example and act as a voice for transparency and acoountability in its Child rights work, especially as a catalyst for engagement and strengthening of civil society to defend Child rights.