CONSULTANCY TO CONDUCT SITUATIONAL ASSESSMENT AND STAKEHOLDERS’ MAPPING OF CHILDREN LIVING AND WORKING IN STREETS IN TANZANIA AND ZANZIBAR
Introduction and Context
SOS Children’s Villages Tanzania is an affiliation of the SOS Kinderdorf International. This is an umbrella worldwide child welfare charity non-governmental organization. We work together with a single vision: “every child belongs to a family and grows with love, respect and security”. Uniquely, we work with vulnerable families and communities to help strengthen them and prevent child abandonment (family strengthening service) and we provide long-term, family-like care for children who have lost parental care (alternative care service), and SOS alternative care is usually organized in the form of a cluster of SOS families, where each SOS parent cares for a small group of children. Besides, we have other community innervations such as women empowerment, youth empowerment programs, Early Childhood Development (ECD), and general education program. We have been operating in Tanzania since 1991 our first operation started in Zanzibar (1991), later we expanded to Arusha(2000), Dar es Salaam (2008), Mwanza(2010), and Iringa (2016).
Rationale of the Assessment
At the global level Tanzania ratified the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child (UNCRC). This is an indication of Tanzania’s solidarity with the global efforts of ensuring the well-being of children. Regionally, Tanzania signed the African Charter on the Rights and Welfare of Children(ACRWC). This was an effort of the African countries to domesticate child rights in the context of Africa. To domesticate these international initiatives Tanzania has undertaken concrete steps towards ensuring that children’s welfare is well advanced. In 2009 the government of Tanzania enacted the Law of the Child Act of 2009. In addition to outlining a child’s care and protection as the obligation of the parent or guardian, this law enshrines important children’s rights. The Act also outlines the consequences for violating the law. Another notable national initiative is the 2017-2022 National Plan of Action to End Violence against Women and Children (NPA VAC). The plan aimed to reduce CWLS on the streets from 29 percent to 9 percent. Recently, the Ministry for Community Development, Gender, Women, and Special Groups established the national task force to provide technical coordination and professional support on how to best address the Children Living and Working in Streets (CLWS) problem in Tanzania. The task force is chaired by the National Director of SOS Children’s Villages. One of the goals assigned to the task force is to adapt a suitable programming model in order to address Tanzania’s most devastating social phenomenon-the increase in CLWS in Tanzania’s major cities.
The objective of the Assessment
The overall objective of the assessment is to identify the magnitude of the issue in the country, ongoing interventions, partners, and stakeholders, together with opportunities and challenges of street children in Tanzania, and on progress against relevant national commitments (including the Law of the Child Act of 2009 (RE: 2019) and other Legal and Policy frameworks). Further, the study will inform the ongoing CLWS project design processes and can be effectively used towards advocating for policies and resources for realization of CLWS’s protection rights including responsible reintegration.
How to Apply
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