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THE IMPLEMENTATION AND FOLLOW UP OF THE 4TH WCW IN TANZANIA

     - enhancement of women legal capacity

      - economic empowerment of women and poverty eradication 

     - increase participation of women in decision making and
to increase education, training and employment.

     - the government recognizes that in order to fulfil its
commitments, actions and accountability is essential if the
target is to be met by the year 2000. In this respect the
government has a primary responsibility for implementing and
making a follow up for implementation of its commitments. To
fulfil this, it relies on its institutional mechanisms and
bureaucratic apparatuses, and these include the Parliament,
Cabinet, Sectors and Public institutions which take a leading
role in coordinating, monitoring and assessing progress of the
implementation of various issues including the government
commitment to the 4WCW.

     The government recognizes the contributions and potentials
of a wide range of public, private, non-governmental
organisations at the community, national, sub-regional/regional
and international levels. These will be expected to support,
compliment and supplement government efforts and fill the gaps
where necessary.

     In accordance with regulations and procedures of the
government, the Ministry of Community Development, Women
Affairs and Children has managed to do the following:

     (a) Enhancement of Women Legal Capacity. The Ministry has
communicated with the Ministry of Justice and constitutional
affairs as well as other agencies identify the sections in the
existing laws which need to be amended and new provisions which
need to be enacted.

The identified sections to be amended will be amended after
adequate consultations and preparations has been done by
relevant actors. Once amendments have been completed,
translation will be done so that these laws and regulations can
easily be where the majority are primary school leavers.

Legal provisions not withstanding women will be able to benefit
when their development is raised from the current stakes. The
Ministry has therefore prepared a community development policy
which aims at stimulating the communities to take
responsibility of their own development. The communities will
be assisted to recognise how they will be able to attain the
accepted annual development target levels using available
resources.

The Ministry has also taken advantage of the CIDA financed
training fund for Tanzanian women Phase Two. Training of women
who work in the law enforcement institutions, i.e. the court
system, police and prison officers are one of the six
components of TFTW.

     (b) Economic Empowerment of Women and Poverty Elimination

The Ministry recognises the Social Sector Strategy as a
strategy aimed at economic empowerment and poverty eradication.
The Community Development Policy has been prepared with a
purpose of, among other things, addressing the communities as
consumers of goods and services. It empowers and guides
community workers of all levels to assist communities and
families to improve their consumption of goods and services. In
this regard the Ministry recognises the existing potential for
increased consumption by comparing regional incomes including
hoarded wealth such as livestock and the levels of consumption.
The communities will be assisted through local study tours and
develop consumption habits which are practised by other
communities and which can take them out of the existing levels
of development.

Currently, by tradition, women and children are relied upon as
a workforce for households living in the rural areas. Legal
provisions and traditional practices which support such
attitudes have been identified for amendment or enactment. The
matric approach which has been developed for the Community
Development Policy and the National Platform of Action is being
translated for countrywide dissemination.

Gender Planning, Management and Administration, Community
Development and Technical Field are four of the six components
and poverty eradication commitment.

The Ministry is exploring the possibilities of developing a
Women Bank from the existing Credit Scheme - the Government
Women Development Fund and the donor supported Credit Scheme
for Productive Activities of women in Tanzania.

Increasing participation of Women in Decision Making and
Improvement Of Women's access to education, training and
employment the Government has developed the concept of looking
at community development services as a force maker services
which will increase the return on investment in social
services, environment and poverty eradication. Budgeted
resources for Community Development services and Women Affairs
will be proportional to resources budgeted for social services,
preservation of environment and poverty eradication.

     - Developed the government strategy towards the
implementation for the commitments involving relevant
ministries, institutions, NGO's and the entire society.

     - Finalized the policies on community, development and
children which will also provide directions for implementation.

The Ministry in collaboration with identified donors is
currently designing and developing a national programme for
implementation of the Community Development and Children
Policies and follow up of the Government commitments in respect
of the Platform for Action. The general objective of these
programmes is to translate visions and commitment into
implementable activities.

The drawing up of these programmes, will:

     - Provide direction on how we can have the government
commitments on POA and WID policy implemented.

     - Provide direction for partners in the implementation

     - Build the necessary capacity of MCDWA to coordinate,
facilitate, advocate and represent the woman's voice

     - Strengthen IEC with a gender perspective.

The Ministry is also planning to organise and conduct national
workshops on Post Beijing for key actors in the implementation,
from both the government and non-government organisation. The
major objectives of these workshops are to provide a forum
through the government can get a feedback to all actors and
collaborators on what transpired at the 4WCW in Beijing and
enable them to understand their roles and responsibilities in
implementing the government commitments. Also, enable the
actors to discuss and contribute to the improvement of the
proposed National Programme of Action.
Furthermore, the Ministry is making arrangements to advocate
for the implementation of the newly formulated policies of
Community Development; that of Children. The advocacy role will
be spearheaded by the politicians.

In order to implement the government commitments, and other
areas within the Platform for Action, funding is a
prerequisite. To solicit funds, the government intends to sell
the programme for implementing the Platform for Action, the
Community Development programme and the National Programme for
Action to implement the Children Development Policy to donors,
NGOs and individuals.

All those who are interested to support the government efforts
will be welcomed to support this goal.