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Tanzania project overview
The overall goal of the project is to withdraw and safeguard 1,500 of the most vulnerable children in thirty six remote villages, of Urambo, in Tanzania.
The project achieves its goal by withdrawing children from the worst forms of child labour and providing opportunities for formal education and vocational training. Also important are the income generating activities for three hundred families and awareness raising to sensitise local communities to the problems caused by child labour.
About this project
Progress so far
From the farm to the classroom
1,500 children aged between 8 and 12 have been withdrawn or safeguarded from child labour in tobacco growing areas, reintegrated back to primary school education and supported with school materials. (This represents 100% achievement against the original target).
The project provided vocational training for 473 former child labourers. These children were trained in masonry, carpentry and tailoring. To support the provision of education the building of new facilities got underway. 12 classrooms and a girls’ dormitory have been built and a folk development college was upgraded.
Training and bicycles build local capacity
The child labour committees in all the villages were strengthened and members trained in child labour monitoring. To enable the members to carry out monitoring, the committees were provided with two bicycles each.
In collaboration with a tobacco company, over a thousand farmers and leaf technicians learned about the effects of child labour so that they could play their different roles in preventing it. Through the training the farmers also learned how to manage money.
Parents get involved
School attendance rose to over 90% in two schools when parents took over a feeding programme. The parents had been inspired by the project’s awareness raising activities which highlighted the importance of education and the negative effects of child labour.
Securing long term impacts of the project
The project made significant progress in becoming rooted in local and national government policies and operations.
Who’s running the project?
National coordinating partner
International Labour Organization – International Programme on the Elimination of Child Labour (ILO-IPEC).
Implementing partners
HOPE Farming Group, Care for the Child, Africa 2000 Network, TULEANE, Tabora Development Foundation Trust, Urambo District Community Development Department, CARITAS Development Office – Tabora, Tobacco Research Institute of Tanzania.
Steering Committee
Association of Tanzania Tobacco Traders (ATTT); Tanzania Tobacco Cooperative Apex (TTCA); a Councillor; District Child Labour Coordinator (DCLC); District Community Development Officer (DCDO); District Council Chairman (DCC); District Education Officer (DEO); Regional Labour Inspector; National Child Labour Coordinator – Ministry of Labour Employment and Youth Development; Beneficiary representatives (one girl and boy, one mother and father); Tanzania Plantation Agricultural Workers Union (TPAWU); Tanzania Education Alternative for Children (TEACH); Time Bound Program (TBP); Urambo Tobacco Sector Project (UTSP II) and Western Tobacco Cooperative Union (WETCU).
Area covered by the project
Thirty six villages in nine wards in Urambo.
Duration of the project
The first project: January 2004 to December 2006.
The second project runs between: January 2007 and December 2010.
Budget
The budget for this phase of the project is US$1,322,672 for the four years.
Project documentation
You can find out more about the Tanzania project by viewing the following project documentation: