An outline of the Tatu Tano programme and learning from 2015.
Community action to reduce child marriage in Shinyanga, Tanzania. Summary report
This report summarises achievements and learnings from an independent evaluation conducted by the AfriChild Centre of Excellence for the Study of the African Child, CBO grantee-partners’ reports, reports from community dialogues conducted by grantee-partners with their communities, consultant reports, and observations and reflections by Firelight staff.
Tatu Tano – a portrait
A background document on the Tatu Tano programme in Nshamba, Tanzania, Developed and implemented by Kwa Wazee.
Impact Evaluation of the VSI (Vijana Simama Imara) organisation and the Rafiki Mdogo group of the HUMULIZA orphan project Nshamba, Tanzania
The aims of the Humuliza Project are to develop a practical instrument to enable teachers and caregivers to support orphans psychologically and to develop the orphans’ own capacity to cope with the loss of their caretakers.
Mobilising Children & Youth into their Own Child- & Youth-led Organisations
Several decades of experience in working with vulnerable children across the planet had resulted in Kurt coming to believe that in the face of family, community and societal disintegration, the single most important supportive “intervention” that could be offered “to”, and more importantly “with” children and youth, might be the…
The story of the Vutamdogo Clubs, Mwanza, Tanzania. Youth clubs run livelihood projects and a literacy programme that provides protection for young children
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…