(d) Measures to Reform the Juvenile Justice System 202. In 2013 the State Party undertook the reform of the Juvenile Justice System by particularly adopting a five-years Strategy for Progressive Child Justice Reform (2013 -2017) on the Mainland. Through this strategy, the State Party has undertaken a number of programmes, including: (a) developing a Guide on the Establishment and Implementation of Community Rehabilitation Programmes in 2013. This programme provides support to young offenders and children at risk of offending while they remain in their community where they receive a number of rehabilitative services. Notably, this is a diversion and alternative sentencing measure to children. The Guide provides practice guidance to all persons and institutions involved in the establishment, supervision, implementation, monitoring and running of the Community Rehabilitation Programme; (b) piloting a programme on Diversion and Community Rehabilitation and Reintegration Scheme for children in conflict with the law and children at risk of offending in the Temeke Municipal Council (Dar es Salaam Region). The programme became operational in July 2012 . So far, 120 children have benefited from this programme. The State Party is making initiatives striving to replicate the Community Rehabilitation Programme in other region in the Mainland and Zanzibar. From 2014 the programme is rolled out in Mbeya Region (Mainland) and in the Urban and West Regions (Zanzibar); and (c) piloting the legal aid programme for children in conflict with the law in the Dar es Salaam Region from 2012 to 2015. Since it become operational in 2012, the programme has provided legal assistance to more than 647 children and facilitated the release of 471 children from detention facilities. The State Party is currently in the process of replicating this programme in the Mbeya Region. Further plans are being made to replicate it in other regions. In addition, the State Party has finalised drafting a Legal Aid Bill, which will, inter alia, guarantee the right to legal assistance for children in Tanzania. 203. The State Party has undertaken other concrete measures to reform the juvenile justice system, including: (a) Ministry for Constitutional and Legal Affairs (MoCLA), in 2014 coordinated the production of a one-year report on the implementation of the five-year Strategy for Progressive child justice reform (2013 -2017). This report, the first ever, details progress made by all actors in the implementation of the strategy. It also details challenges encountered and avoid duplication of efforts. (b) Specific department to deal with Legal Aid Policy issues under MoCLA established. (c) Legal Aid Secretariat under MoCLA in the context of the Legal Sector Reform Programme to administer legal aid and coordinate legal aid providers in the Mainland established. (d) Legal Aid Bills awaits the adoption of a new Constitution for it to be tabled in Parliament for enactment drafted. The bill provides an opportunity to ensure that children in conflict with the law receive legal assistance from the arrest up to conclusion of the cases. (e) Legal Services Facility (LSF), which provide financial and technical assistance to legal aid providers, particularly paralegals, in order to provide legal assistance to children and other vulnerable groups at different levels (i.e. from the grassroots to the regional levels) established in the Mainland. (f) Directives with reference number JC/DPP/CPNF/23/7 of 2010 for Law Enforcers to fast-track cases involving children issued by the Director of Public Prosecutions. The directives aim at ensuring children cases are handled timely, and reducing the time children spend in detention facilities; (g) Inspect 89 detention facilities in 2013. The inspection aimed at assesses the situation of children in facilities in Mainland. A total no. of 703 children were found in prisons whereby 22 of them are girls. Out of detained children, 220 were convicted of which 5 were girls. In the Police Lockups total of 25 children were found in custody. Further, there were 37 children who were incarcerated with their mothers in prisons. Total of 46 pre – trial children cases 57

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