State Party has developed the Child Protection Policy and Procedures for Prisons (2015). The Policy aims at
promoting good practices by setting standards for the protection of children and provide children with
appropriate safe environment and/or protection while in the care of Tanzania Prisons Service (TPS) in
accordance with the foregoing laws and international child rights treaties, including the Charter.
184. In particular, the Policy strives to provide protection and assistance to children born in prisons
and those accompanying their mothers in prisons. The Policy also strives to provide an enabling environment
to ensure that all four categories of children who find themselves compelled to be prisons 65 are provided with
treatment in light with the foregoing laws and international child rights treaties, including the Charter. The
Policy will be incorporated in the Prisons Standing Order as well as in the Prisons Curriculum for Prisons
Colleges in the State Party to ensure that all trainees in the colleges are specifically trained on the principles
underlying the Policy.
(c) Children in situations of exploitation and abuse:
(i) Economic exploitation including Child Labour (Article 15)
185. The State Party has undertaken several administrative measures to prevent and combat child
labour in the Mainland, in addition to the implementation of the existing legislation and policies. In particular,
in 2012 the Law of the Child (Child Employment) Regulations were gazetted to provide guidance on effective
implementation of the Law of the Child Act (2009) with a view to, inter alia, preventing child labour.
Administratively, the State Party has adopted the National Action Plan for the Elimination of Child Labour
(2009-2015). This plan strives to scale up the prevention of, and it provides responses to, the worst forms of
child labour in the country.
186. In this context, the worst forms of child labour constitute exploitation and gross violation of
human rights for boys and girls, with detrimental physical, emotional and mental consequences to the child.
The overall objective of the plan is to reduce the prevalence and incidents of child labour and worst forms of
child labour at the household and community levels and in all sectors of the national economy both in rural
and urban areas in the short run; and putting in place the requisite economic, social, policy and institutional
foundations for elimination of all forms of child labour in longer term. As it is well known that child labour is
due to Poverty.
187. In addition, the State Party has carried out prevention and protection activities regarding children
in the Mainland, which are particularly carried out by labour inspectors in the context of the National Plan of
Action for the Elimination of Child Labour (2009-2015) in ensuring is well understood and implemented by
stakeholders. Labour inspectors play a great role in ensuring that provisions of the labour Laws on prohibition
of child labour are complied with. This has been done through:
(a)
Public awareness-raising to local government officers, Religious leaders, politicians and
other stakeholders in the district level. In this, the State Party has managed to reach 35 Districts
where in each district averages of 25 participants attended. In the said Districts the total of 925
participants were made aware on issues of child labour and their roles in National Action Plan; and
(b)
Establishment of a National Advisory Committee on anti-trafficking in the context of the
Anti-Trafficking in Persons Act, No. 5 (2008), which brings together relevant actors from Zanzibar
and the Mainland. This enabled the implementation of objective No 6 which concern with child
trafficking. In the wards we have the committees responsible for monitoring issues of children
including VAC and child trafficking. These committees are trained by IOM and police to
understanding issues of trafficking and the steps need to be taken by different stakeholder including
the families on how to eliminate the problem one which being to capacitate families economically.
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The four categories of children are: children in conflict with the law; children who accompany their mothers/caregivers who have
infringed or are accused of infringing the law; children of detainees and deportees; and children born with prison premises while their
mothers are serving their sentences.
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