(g) developing a training manual and training 217 officials from MCDGC, MoHSW, MoEVT,
MoHA, MoCLA, PMO-RALGDSW, TACAIDS, DPP, CHRAGG, TCRF, and IRCPT38;
(h) the State Party, in collaboration with development partners, has trained 258 ECD
professionals on ECD essential packages;
(i) the Commission for Human Rights and Good Government (CHRAGG) trained 35 Judges
(13 women and 22 men)on the Human Rights issues including the child rights;
(j) CHRAGG trained 35 Resident Magistrates in the Mainland Tanzania (19 men and 16
women) and 180 Education personnel were trained on issues relating to child protection
based on the Law of the Child Act and the Children Development Policy;
(k) the Department of Social Welfare trained 750 professionals working with and for children
from (Social Welfare Officers, Police Officers, Immigration Officers, Community
Development Officers, Planning Officers, Teachers, Magistrates, Community Services
Workers, and Child Care Workers) were trained on child protection in the course of
implementing the child protection system strengthening programme;
(l) creating specialization and capacity building among child protection actors including
training of 49 police officers have been trained on data management in child protection.
Review of the data management information system at the police gender and children desk
and Capacity building training on Child Protection Information Management System;
(m) additionally, MoHSW has been conducting ongoing training to health care providers,
social welfare, prosecutors and police officers, who work with children directly. In fact,
they are facilitated to help survivors in various ways aiming at enhancing the
implementation of the National Plan of Action to Prevent and Respond to Violence against
Children (2012-2015); and
(n) besides, the State Party has conducted a five-days training of trainers (ToT) session on
basic training course for Police Officers on dealing with cases of GBV and child abuse
delivered to 14 Police Trainers in June 2014. The first roll out of the training took place in
June 2014 where 22 Police Gender and Children's Desk (PGCD) Officers were trained in
the Urban West Region (Unguja). Training for designated PGCD officers in the remaining
(4) regions were conducted in December 2014. In every Police Station in Zanzibar (34) at
least 2 Police Officers have been designated as Gender and Children's Desk Officers.
(h) Measures to Disseminate the Consolidated 2nd, 3rd and 4th Reports to the Public
24. The State Party has taken the following measures to widely disseminate these reports to the
public at large in its jurisdiction:
24.1 The State Party, in Tanzania Mainland, has conducted a number of training, awarenessraising and dissemination activities have been carried out to selected journalists (i.e. radio broadcasters
and news editors, TV broadcasters and editors). In addition, 400 training of trainers have been trained on
children’s rights as well as on Charter and other international instruments in the period under report.
24.2 In Zanzibar the State Party, through the MESWYWC, has developed a popular version of a
manual on children’s rights based on the Charter and other International Instruments. This manual has
been disseminated to various stakeholders who work for the best interest of the children, including CSO
working with children such as Zanzibar Association for Children Advancement (ZACA), Zanzibar
Female Lawyers Association (ZAFELA), Zanzibar Association of People with HIV/Aids+ (ZAPHA+)
and Zanzibar Network for Children Rights (ZANECRI). In addition, training on the Convention and its
Protocols has been conducted to children councils in Zanzibar whereby about 100 children were reached
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In The Main, The Training Focused On The Key Areas Of The Implementation Of The Law Of Child Act.
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