188. Furthermore, the State Party has carried out several concrete measures to urgently remove
children who work in small-scale gold and gem mining in the Mainland, both licensed and unlicensed, at risk
of their lives. The State Party coordinates and facilitates the awareness creation to small –scale miners. For
example, in Geita Region the MOLE has entered into MoU with Plan International to assist in raising public
awareness on effects of child labour in mining and related activities. In addition, the State Party has published
and widely disseminated posters in small scale mining fields to which provide the information on effects of
child labour and the legal prohibitions about it. In effect, this campaign has resulted in some of villages in the
Geita Region adopting By-laws, which prohibit child employment in mines and agricultural activities.
189. Similarly, the State Party has taken steps to decrease the overreliance on CSOs and donor
funding for protecting children from child labour in the Mainland, in particular hazardous forms of child
labour. Through awareness creations on National Action Plan for elimination of child labour, The State Party
pursued Municipal council to integrate of child labour issue into Municipal plan and Budgets aiming in
enabling the sustainability of campaigns against child labour. For example in Urambo District, every financial
year they allocate three Million to fund the child labour issues.
190. In respect of Zanzibar, the State Party has effectively continued to implement the National Plan
of Action for the Elimination of Child Labour (2009-2015), which aims to reduce the harmful of the child
labour under Save the Children support to ensure that the parents and children given the opportunity to get the
social services such as education. In addition, a Multi-sectoral Technical Working Group for Child Labour
and a Child Labour Steering Committee have been established and strengthened in order to support the child
labour issues. State Party also developed and implemented IGG with the same objective and achieved to
return a total number of 5,067 children at school and Madrasa through the Project of Fighting Child Labour.
Among them 2079 were girls and 2988 were boys.
191. Similarly, the Child Labour Programme 2012-14, which aims at removing 5,000 children from
child labour, has been introduced through which currently more than 3,620 children have been removed from
child labour. These children are given an opportunity to attend to school and their families have been
supported in order to help them with alleviating poverty, which is one of the main causes of children to be
tempted to be involved in child labour activities. Moreover, the State Party has adopted specific Regulations
on hazardous work to children with the aim of protecting children against the worst forms of child labour.
This set of Regulations is among the sets of the Regulations developed and adopted Zanzibar Ministry of
Labour as required by the Employment Act (2005) in order to regulate involvement and prohibition of
children in hazardous work and worst forms of child labour. Besides, the State Party has completed the
process of reviewing the Zanzibar Children Policy of 2001 and it is currently waiting to be tabled before the
Permanent Secretaries’ Committees for validation and approval. The review aimed at, inter alia,
incorporating issues that have to be addressed, including the inclusion of the issues, among others, early child
hood development and children in conflict with laws.
(ii) Sexual exploitation and sexual abuse (Article 27)
192. The State Party has undertaken several concrete measures to combat sexual violence,
harassment, sexual exploitation of girls in the state party and to change attitude that condone such violence. In
particular, it has undertaken the following measures in respect of Tanzania Mainland:
(a)
Strengthening Health System by advocating for provision of health services immediately post
violence at middle and lower level;
(b)
Capacity building to health managers in 25 Regions and 335 Districts in Tanzania Mainland
was facilitated to enable them providing health services immediately post violence matters. In
Zanzibar 10 health staffs have been trained for the same purpose;
(c)
Capacity building and skill training to health care providers for provision of comprehensive
care to victims of violence including post rape care was done at least in every health facility because
the URT have trained 1 health staff in each District in 5 Regions and 10 Districts to ensure
availability of the services;
(d)
Establishment of One Stop Centers that serves as a one point reference facility for all
required services to the child abuse victims were done in 2 areas of the Mainland namely Ilala
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