November 28, 2014

On-going Events This November and December

December 25, 2014 Public rally from Mnazi Mmoja ground to Karimjee hall. Nationally this has been organised by WiLDAF, TAMWA is among the major stakeholders and will fully participate.

This year theme is “OPEN UP! DISCLOSE GENDER BASED VIOLENCE FOR THE HEALTH OF THE COMMUNITY”

December 2, 2014 CRC –TAMWA one day education awareness session with Kinondoni and Kitunda-Kivule paralegals at TAMWA conference centre.

December 5,2014 CRC will hold a one day counselling for clients at TAMWA grounds, (counselling will be in a form of group and one by one).(Bring your neighbour, sons and daughters)-We are going to invite a Specialist Counsellor who is going to team with CRC. Click here for more activities.

July 17,2014

 SUMMARY REPORT ON PARALEGAL TRAINING HELD ON 15TH  – 16TH  JULY 2014 AT  TAMWA OFFICE DAR ES SALAAM

 1.  About Training

CRC - TAMWA conducted two days training to twelve Paralegals from Newala, Ruanga,Lindi Rural and  Kinondoni - Dar es salaam.

This took place  on 15th  and 16th July 2014 at TAMWA Conference Room, Sinza Mori.

2.  OBJECTIVES

• To know their challenges especially in providing Legal Aid services and counselling;
• To raise awareness on Laws relating to public issues like the ’Marriage Act’, ’Land Law,’ ’Inheritance Law’ etc. and
• To overcome  challenges and  improve better services.

3. Training Team

The Facilitators for the training were the Excecutive Director of TAMWA, Ms.Valeria Msoka; CRC-Coordinator – TAMWA Ms. Gladness Hemedi Munuo, Social Worker CRC- TAMWA Ms. Marcella Lungu and Legal Officer of CRC – Tamwa Ms.  Loyce Gondwe

4.  Areas Covered

• Training Objectives;
• The Law of Marriage Act of 1971;
• Ward Tribunal and Village Council;
• Probate Act and administration of the Deceased Estate;
• Court System;
• By Laws;
• How to provide counseling; and

• General duties and obligation of Paralegals.

July 14,2014

Up coming events this July,2014

1. Crisis Resolving centre (CRC) will conduct Paralegal Training that will commence on 15^th to 16^th of July, 2014 at TAMWA Resource Centre where by Paralegals from Kindondoni, Newala, Lindi rural and Ruangwa districts will come together to learn and share legal issues related to Gender based Violence (GBV) facilitated by GEWE II:GBV component project.
2. Crisis Resolving centre (CRC) provide Legal Aid Services every Monday to Wednesday and is opened at  09:00 AM and closed at 03:00 PM.

20.12.2013

CRISIS RESOLVING CENTRE (CRS)

From January to December 2013 CRC attended a total of 2878 clients for the three districts of Dar es Salaam region. Of these, 2470 were from Kinondoni district, 250 from Ilala district and 158 clients from Temeke district. These cases were on matrimonial disputes, Probate, Child maintenance, child abduction, land disputes, rape and family abandonment.

With TAMWA being recognized in its fight against GBV, the CRC received 30 cases clients from other regions seeking services. These included two young girls who had run away from Hanang’, Arusha to escape FGM and child marriage.

In building the capacity of the response mechanisms, CRC trained police gender desk officer from different police posts in Kinondoni district on handling of domestic violence cases. Another training was conducted for 60 paralegals from Kinondoni, Newala, Ruangwa and Lindi Rural district on handling gender based violence cases in their villages.

On a daily basis CRC has managed to:

1. Support women and children survivors of gender based violence in terms of food, cloths shelter and education.

2. Reunite children with their mothers – those who were forcibly taken from their mothers.

3. Provide capacity building to women to enable them to defend their rights in public.

4. Reach both the perpetrators and survivors of domestic violence/gender based violence and educate them on the rights of women and children and the negative effects of GBV on their children and the society.

5. Protect survivors of domestic violence especially underage girls who were forced to stop school in order to get married.

TAMWA is a non-partisan, non-profit sharing professional media membership association registered in 1987 under the society’s ordinance cap 337 of 1954 with registration number so 6763. The association also in 2004 complied with the new non-governmental organizations’ (NGO) law of 2002 with 0NGO1886 registration number. For operational purposes, TAMWA is also registered in Zanzibar under society act no 6 of 1995 with registration number 493. TAMWA has offices in Zanzibar and Dar es Salaam. TAMWA started with 12 media women, but the membership has grown to   more than 160 women journalists. TAMWA has 34 years’ experience in partnership with other organizations, advocating for women and children’s rights through the use of media. TAMWA’S mission - to advocate for women and children’s rights by conducting awareness raising activities for cultural, policy and legal transformations in the society through the use of media. TAMWA visions, to havea peaceful Tanzania environment which respects human rights from a gender perspective.

The baseline survey Advancing Media advocacy to Rural and Urban Women and Girls’ SRHR in Tanzania aim at enhancing the project towards enriching media practitioners’ skills in promoting sexual and reproductive health rights outcomes in Tanzania. The project focuses on the increasing competencies of media practitioners on reporting SRHR OUTCOMES, targeting the Mainstream Media (TV, Newspapers and Radio) Community radio Online Media in order to increase the proportion of media sensitization on SRHR contents. 

To come up with scientific ground of the project goals, ensure effectiveness and efficiencies of the project, TAMWA is conducting a baseline survey to inform the current SRHR media contents and the media practitioners understanding of the SRHR but also understanding best media channels for SRHR issues.  The findings will enable the project team to come up with the relevant training manual or tool that will help TAMWA to build capacity, support and motivate media practitioners to cover SRHR issues including training. 

Click this link to complete the Application

Juni 16, 2019. Chama cha Wanahabari Wanawake (TAMWA), kinaungana na taasisi za umma na zisizo za umma zinazotetea haki za watoto  duniani katika  kuadhimisha Siku ya Mtoto wa Afrika  Juni 16 kila mwaka.

Kauli mbiu ya mbiu ya mwaka huu ni Mtoto  ni msingi wa taifa endelevu tumtunze tumlinde na kumuendeleza.

Pamoja na changamoto zinazomkabili mtoto wa kiafrika, lakini takwimu za hivi karibuni zinaonyesha kuwa ubakaji umeendelea kuwa ni janga la Taifa. 

Takwimu zilizotolewa hivi karibuni na LHRC zinaonyesha kuwa katika kipindi cha miezi sita ya mwanzo wa mwaka 2018 watoto 2365 walibakwa,  idadi ambayo ni sawa na watoto 394 kwa siku.

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Chama cha Wanahabari Wanawake Tanzania (TAMWA) kinaungana na taasisi nyingine nchini kulaani vikali matukio ya mauaji ya wanawake na watoto yaliyotokea hivi karibuni hapa nchini.

Kwa kadri siku zinavyoendelea mauaji ya wanawake na watoto yanayotokana na sababu mbalimbali yameripotiwa kutokea sehemu mbalimbali hasa katika maeneo ya Njombe, Rombo, Mto wa Mbu na Simiyu. 

Pamoja na matukio ya mauaji ya watoto Njombe na Simiyu, hivi karibuni  kumetokea mauaji ya wanawake Arusha na mikoa mingine.

TAMWA tunasikitishwa na mauaji hayo na tunaikumbusha jamii kuwa kila mtu anayo haki ya kuishi kulingana na sheria na taratibu za nchi yetu. 

Hivyo tukiwa wadau wanaosimamia haki za wanawake na watoto tunakemea haya na kuwataka wadau wengine kuanzia ngazi ya familia hadi serikalini kuwalinda watoto na kuhakikisha kuwa migogoro ya kifamilia inamalizwa kwa mazungumzo ya amani. 

Tumeona na tunapongeza juhudi kubwa zilizofanywa na vyombo vya usalama nchini lakini pamoja na juhudi hizo cha kujiuliza ni kuwa kwanini bado matukio haya ya mauaji yameendelea kuripotiwasiku baada ya siku? 

Tunachelea kwamba, matukio haya yasipoundiwa mifumo ya muda mrefu ili kuyakomesha kabisa, basi tutaendelea kupoteza kinamama na watoto ambao kimsingi ni nguvu kazi ya Taifa.

TAMWA tunapendekeza uwepo wa mfumo endelevu utakaohusisha wadau mbalimbali wakiwemo wananchi, vyombo vya usalama na kampuni za simu kuwezesha waathirika kutoa taarifa za dalili zozote za ukatili kabla haujatokea. 

TAMWA tunaungana na familia za waathirika wa matukio haya tukiwatakia faraja katika kipindi hiki kigumu. 

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Mkurugenzi Mtendaji

TAMWA

Mtandao wa Wadau unaopambana na unywaji pombe kupita kiasi  – TAAnet, leo tarehe 3Machi, 2018 unaungana na watanzania wote kuadhimisha siku ya kutokunywa pombe duniani ambayo kwa mara ya kwanza yanafanyika kitaifa mkoani  Dodoma.

Maadhimisho hayo yatakayoongozwa na kauli mbiu ya mwaka huu ya “Maendeleo ya Viwanda yataletwa na Udhibiti wa Unywaji Pombe kupita kiasi”  yataanza kwa maandamano yatakayopokelewa na Mgeni rasmi ambaye ni Mkuu wa mkoa huo Dr. Bilinith Mahenge saa mbili asubuhi kwenye viwanja vya Chuo cha Biblia Dodoma

Kwa mujibu wa Shirika la Afya Duniani (WHO), Watu zaidi ya milioni 3 walifariki kutokana na matumizi mabaya ya pombe mwaka 2016. Zaidi ya robo tatu ya vifo hivi vilikuwa ni vya wanaume. Kwa ujumla, matumizi mabaya ya pombe husababisha zaidi ya asilimia 5 ya mzigo wa magonjwa duniani.

Matumizi ya pombe na athari zake ni tatizo linalozidi kukua nchini Tanzania, na linapaswa kudhibitiwa haraka iwezekanavyo. Ongezeko hili la unywaji pombe katika jamii ya watanzania TAAnet inazikumbusha  taasisi husika pamoja na Serikali kuangalia kwa hakara namna ya kudhibiti tabia hiyo ili kunusuru maisha ya vijana yanayoendelea kuharibika kila siku.

Kama wadau wa kupambana na madhara ya unywaji pombe , tungependa kuona watunga sera wanalitafutia tatizo hili ufumbuzi kwa  kuwa ufumbuzi wa ubunifu ambao utaokoa maisha, kama vile kutokomeza unywaji pombe kupindukia.

Tanzania ni miongoni mwa Nchi ambazo bado haina sera/muongozo  wa pombe ukilingalinisha na Nchi jirani kama Kenya, Malawi huku Uganda wakiwa njiani kumalizia mkakati wa sera yao ya pombe.

TAAnet inapendekeza kupitiwa kwa sheria na kuweka masharti kuhusiana na matangazo, uuzaji na udhamini wa pombe pamoja na kuonyeshwa kwa onyo la athari za pombe   kwenye matangazo ya vilevi ili kupunguza matumizi yake kwa jamii.

TAAnet inaamini kwamba, endapo kutakuwa na sera ya kudhibiti matumizi mabaya ya pombe, wanaume watawajibika zaidi na kuacha matumizi yaliyopitiza ya vileo, yanayochangia unyanyasaji wa kijinsia, na badala yake kuchangia ustawi wa familia na kukuza maendeleo kwenye jamii na katika Taifa kwa ujumla.

Kupunguza matumizi mabaya ya pombe kutasaidia kufikia malengo kadhaa yanayohusiana na afya ya Malengo ya Maendeleo Endelevu (SDG), ikiwa ni pamoja na  afya ya uzazi na watoto, magonjwa ya kuambukiza, magonjwa yasiyoambukizwa na magonjwa ya akili, majeraha na sumu. 

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Mkurugenzi Mtendaji