District in Dar es Salaam (at Amana Hospital), and Hai Hospital in Kilimanjaro Region. In Zanzibar
there are 6 One Stop Centers, within 5 Regions having one such center and one of them having two
centers. Currently, VAC cases are highly reported due to the availability of such services but there
are some challenges facing those facilities example: Adequate stationeries, furniture and office
equipment, adequate counseling rooms;
(e)
Provision of essential equipment and supplies for management of victims of sexual violence;
(f)
Tanzania Teachers’ Code of Conduct and Professional Ethics of 1963 has been reviewed to
include specific measures on promotion and protection of children in schools.
(g)
A Child Protection Guideline in school setting for Primary and Secondary Schools is under
development to be completed by December 2015. Its main objective is to promote safe learning
environment by ensuring that school play an active role in preventing and responding to all forms of
child harassment, abuse, neglect and violence;
(h)
The MOEVT has adopted the Policy which allows the pregnant girls to continue with school
after delivering; this Policy came into operational 2014. There have been government initiatives on
preventing girls from early pregnancy like reproductive health education in school, employing of
school counselor to support the adolescent girls to understand clearly the issues associated with
behavior and biological changes in their body.
Challenges
193.Although points (a) and (b) above have been implemented seriously by the State Party, the
implementation has faced a number of challenges, including the application of the outdated PF366 which is
not detailed. The State Party has reviewed the PF3 so as to align with modern standards in capturing crime
statistics.
194. In addition, the State Party has undertaken a number of measures to ensure that girls victim of
domestic violence in the Mainland have less obstacles in obtaining a report from the police before being
admitted in the hospital, including:
(a)
there is no requirement for girls of domestic violence to obtain a report from the police before
being admitted to the hospital; and
(b)
children victims of domestic violence are advised to seek medical care and treatment first
and quickly then consult the police later. As per the National Policy Guidelines for the Health Sector
Prevention and Response to Gender Based Violence 2011 it’s important to save lives first i.e. in acute
conditions like bleeding and rape survivors that need to obtain post exposure prophylaxis within
72hours provided emergency contraceptive to prevent unexpected pregnancy within 120 hours from
the assault. All of these are important to be done within the limited time as shown above thus way
survivors were advised to report first to the health facilities then to Police.
195. In respect of Zanzibar, the State Party has undertaken a number of policy, legislative and
administrative measures, as follows:
(a)
In the implementation of National Plan of Action to prevent and respond to Violence Against
Children, 15 sectors including Government ministries (6), Government Department (7) and CSO (2)
formed a Multi sectoral Task Force to monitor the NAP on VAC through quarterly meeting and
report sharing whereby the resolution and recommendation are set and used to improve its
implementation;
(b)
A Communication Toolkit has been developed for the aims of disseminating various VAC
messages to different audience like pupils, teachers, parents, community etc. For understanding types
and behaviour of perpetuators of child abuse. Posters, brochures, wall charts, TV and radio
programmes have been eared and widely communicated to assist in delivering of the said messages;
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“PF3” is an acronymy for Police Form No. 3 using to capture information on crimes statistics relating to bodily injuries such as
assault and rape.
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