(b) establishment of the Implementing Partners Group that regularly meets to review the
implementation of National Costed Plan of Action for MVC (NCPA II 2013 – 17);
(c) establishment of Child Protection Teams as a mechanism to monitor, prevent and respond
to issues related to child protection at the districts and ward/Shehia levels;
(d) establishment of the National Steering Committee (a technical committee and secretariat
for Early Childhood Development (ECD);
(e) reviewing the Child Development Policy in order to streamline ECD issues;
(f) adoption of the Children Agenda initiative through which all stakeholders meet quarterly to
review the implementation of the activities that aim at investing in various sectors to save
the lives of children and women, good nutrition, better hygiene and sanitation in schools
and health facilities, early childhood development, equality education for all children,
school safety, protection to infant and adolescent girls from HIV, reduction of teenage
pregnancy, protection of children against violence, abuse and exploitation and children
with disabilities;
(g) adoption of the National Human Rights Action Plan (2013-2017), which sets out, inter
alia, a comprehensive framework for the protection of child rights; and
(h) adoption of the Strategy for Progressive Child Justice Reforms (2013 – 2017), that strives
to ensure effective implementation of child protection in all spheres of life including in
prisons.
(g) Measures to Publicize the Charter
23. The State Party has undertaken the following measures to make the principles and the provisions
of the Charter widely known to adults and children alike (mostly revolving around building the capacity of
professionals working with children in light of the Charter):
(a) developing Guidelines and SOPs on how to handle children’s cases at the Gender and
Children Desks in police stations;
(b) developing training manuals (both for the Police and the Judiciary) on how to handle cases
involving children in police stations and in courts.36 A team of 24 TOT’s from the
Judiciary and 64 officers from the Police and NGOs working with the Police have been
trained to replicate the training to Police and Court professionals;
(c) conducting training to 7 Judges, 82 Magistrates, 41 Advocates, 80 Social Welfare Officers
and 3 Instructors from the Institute of Judicial Administration. In addition, the Police and
NGO trainers have trained 1,267 Police Officers working at the Gender and Children
Desks37;
(d) conducting an assessment to take stock of the impact of the foregoing training, which
indicated that there was an increase in reporting of cases of child abuses as a result of an
increasing in public awareness on children’s issues;
(e) the DPP’s office has trained 121 State Attorneys on the Child laws and how to prosecute
children’s cases;
(f) MOLE in Tanzania Mainland has conducted a special training on the elimination of the
worst forms of child labour in the context of the “National Plan of Action for Elimination
of Child Labour (2009 – 2015)” to District Social Welfare Officers, Police Officers,
District Community Development Officers, District Labour Officers, District Medical
Officers, Judicial Officials and representatives of various CSOs. A total of 875 (25 in each
districts in the Mainland) officers from 35 Districts out of 168 Districts in the Mainland
covered;
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Notably, the training for professionals as an on-going process.
The training is conducted in the context of the Charter and other relevant international human rights treaties to which Tanzania is a
State Party.
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