A case study collaboration between the Interagency Learning Initiative (ILI) on community-based child protection mechanisms, the Community Child Protection Exchange, and Tanzanian Home Economics Association (TAHEA).
The Tatu Tano child-led organisation – Building child capacity and protective relationships through a child-led organisation, North-western Tanzania
A case study collaboration between the Interagency Learning Initiative (ILI) on community-based child protection mechanisms, the Community Child Protection Exchange, and Kwa Wazee, Tanzania.
How practices, and meaning, of genital cutting are changing in Tanzania
Among the Maasai the circumcision of both boys and girls serves as a rite of passage from childhood to adulthood. Efforts to discourage the practice haven’t always resulted in fewer Maasai girls being cut. But new research shows that they have had an impact on the cultural meaning of the…
Changing practices and shifting meanings of female genital cutting among the Maasai of Arusha and Manyara regions of Tanzania
A study which looked at changing practices and shifting meanings of female genital cutting among the Maasai people in Tanzania. The findings suggest that an increasing social pressure to abandon female genital cutting has inspired thehiding of the practice, causing the actual cutting to become detached from its traditional ceremonial…
Enhancing community engagement in child protection Kampala and Arusha Workshops – Highlights from the workshops
A themes-focused report back of the workshops held in Kampala and Arusha 30 Jan-01 Feb and 06 Feb-08 Feb, 2018. These workshops were designed to create the time and space for practitioners in Uganda and Tanzania to reflect deeply on aspects of their own organisation’s community-based child protection work, learn…
Tanzania: Linking community systems to a national model of child protection
This report describes a child protection system strengthening initiative that was piloted in four districts in Tanzania. The aim of the initiative was to improve the delivery of social and protective services to all children, especially the most vulnerable, with a view towards building an evidence base for an effective…
Parenting, Family Care and Adolescence in East and Southern Africa: An evidence-focused literature review
Based on an evidence-focused literature review, this paper examines existing knowledge on raising adolescents in East and Southern African countries, including Kenya, Malawi, Mozambique, South Africa, Tanzania and Zimbabwe.
What are the most effective early response strategies and interventions to assess and address the immediate needs of children outside of family care?
A systematic review of evidence of effective early response strategies for children outside of family care.
Mbinu za kuimarisha mifumo ya ulinzi wa mtoto kuanzia chini kwenda juu mbinu na: Kuangazia watoto, familia na jamii
KiSwahili version of “Bottom-up approaches to strengthening child protection systems: Placing children, families, and communities at the center.” This article examines an alternative approach of community-driven, bottom-up work that enables non formal–formal collaboration and alignment, greater use of formal services, internally driven social change, and high levels of community ownership….
Kwa Wazee’s Impact assessment of Self Defense – the views of the participants
A 2011 evaluation of the Kwa Wazee girl’s self-defence training initiative in Nshamba, Tanzania.