(v) coordinating the management of Boy Scouts and Girls Guides;
(vi) allowing the conduct of other positive cultural activities such as jando (for boys) and
unyago (for girls); religious activities (retreats/ziara); and early morning joggings
(there are efforts to fomalize them); and
(vii) convening the Girl Power Festival (Nguvu ya Binti na Malengo ya Maendeleo 2030),
which was convened for the first time on 10 October 2015 to mark the
commemoration of the International Day of the Girl Child.
Challenges
177. Despite undertaking the foregoing measures, the State Party faces several challenges in its
endeavours to ensure that children in its jurisdiction do effectively realize their rights to recreation, leisure
and participation in cultural activities. Some of the challenges are:
(a) some local government authorities (particularly those in urban areas) do not allocate adequate
open spaces for children’s recreation, and where they exist some of them do not have
prerequisite facilities as result of lack of adequate funding for the same;
(b) there is still low awareness on the need for allocating adequate spaces for children’s
recreation and participation in cultural activites amongst most decision- and policy- makers as
well as town planners. This has been exhibited in the lack of clear provision for such areas in
most town master plans; and
(c) there are still in existence in some communities in the State Party of negative cultural beliefs
about the need for children to be allowed to adequately participate in leisure, recreation and
cultural activities, which result in parents’ prohibiting children to doso.
(e) Specifies the nature and extent of cooperation with local, national and international
Organizations, concerning the implementation of this area of the children charter.
178. The State Party, in collaboration with local government authorities and international as well as
local NGOs, continues to support the education efforts through the programs, policy and legislative such as
UNICEF, UNESCO, the African Development Bank (ADB), the World Bank, Save the Children, Plan
Internationa and other stakeholders.
IX. SPECIAL PROTECTION MEASURES
(a) Children in situations of emergency:
Refugee Children and Children Involved in Armed Conflicts (Articles 22 and 25)
179. The State Party has put in place effective policy, legislative and administrative mechanisms to
provide support and assistance to refugee, returnee and displaced children in context of the provisions of
Articles 25 of the Charter. The State Party has also undertaken similar specific measures for protection and
care of children involved in armed conflicts not only in its jursidction but also in negigjbouting countries in
light of Article 22 of the Charter. For that matter, the State Party has continued to implement the National
Refugee Policy (2003), the Refugee Act (1998) and the Law of the Child Act (2009), all of which strive to
provide appropriate assistance to refugees, including refugee children. 180. Following the suspension in June
2011 of the naturalization and local integration programme that had begun, the President of Tanzania in
September 2014 authorized the relevant authorities to commence the issuance of naturalization certificates to
over 162,000 former Burundian refugees. This new development calls on UNHCR and other partners to
rapidly respond to this opportunity to find permanent solutions for this population. This plan seeks to offer
citizenship to former Burundian refugees (including their children) living in the country since the 1972 civil
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