| Components |
Activities |
Main
Achievements |
Difficulties
faced |
Unexpected
results |
1. Poor and vulnerable citizens demanding services from duty bearers
(Carried out by UPT and village chairmen) |
1. Rights awareness training to citizens on food and land issues by the Human Rights Organization from Dar
2. Facilitate training on the Village Land Laws of 1999 to the Village land committees, Village Land Tribunal, Ward Tribunal and citizens in 40 Villages of Mtwara District.
3. Facilitate training on good governance to the Village Councils members and the Ward Development Committees in 40 Villages and 10 Wards
4. Supported Village and Ward Offices with notice boards for information sharing with the rest of Villagers in 40 Villages and 10 Wards
5. Advocacy for the improved cashew marketing system (warehouse receipt system)
6. Distribution of copies popular version of Agricultural policy and the Land Act in 40 villages (8000 copies, 200 in each village)
7. Study tour to Nachingwea (district in Lindi region) to learn the operation of the warehouse system. Involved communities and members of the cooperative society. From 10 wards. September 2007 |
Village land committees, land tribunals members and citizens are aware of the Village land laws of 1999.
Citizens claiming / demanded for their village to be demarcated
Training empowered Village Land Tribunals to solve conflicts related to land thereby contributing to the reduction of land conflicts
Training enabled reconstruction of the land committees and tribunals in line with the policy guidelines
Village councils members are aware of their roles and responsibilities
Improved Village meeting schedules
Notice boards enabled Villagers to access information on markets, income and expenditure, Village meetings
Village budgets developed in a transparent way, and shard with communities
Change of the marketing system: introduction of the warehouse receipt system, making the end of middlemen
No complains when the warehouse system was introduced in Mtwara (compared to other districts, where there was violence) |
Training days not enough to exhaust the required topic; only 3 days were used during this training
Some participants did not attend the meetings
Individual land parcels not surveyed and demarcated
Limited time for UPT staff to cover all the 40 Villages
Warehouse system: farmers complain paying installments: don’t understand exactly how the system works
Not enough copies to be distributed to cover all villages. Everybody wanted a copy
Transport: some delays in starting trainings, as villages are far and UPT is based in town
Contribution from women during training very low
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Everything went according to plan
Third installment was not expected, for the cashew nuts |
3. Improved recognition by communities of equal rights for men women boys and girls through the successive mainstreaming of equality by government and CSOs
(Carried out by UPT) |
Training to youth, female and men on the importance of property rights including land (400 youths -200 boys and 200 girls- in 40 villages)
Sensitization to married couples on joint land ownership in line with the village land act (in 40 villages)
Sensitization women and youth to attend village development meetings and contribute their ideas |
Women and youth understood processes for land ownership
Women demanded for joint registration of the land between spouse
Decreased divorce rates after training because of understanding of the laws
Increased participation of women and youth in village meetings |
Women still passive during meeting. |
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4. Partner CSOs and government mainstream HIV AIDS and promote linkages to HIV AIDS related services to enable themselves ad communities to reduce the impact of HIV AIDS
(Carried out by UPT) |
1. Conduct HIV AIDS situation analysis to se the magnitude of HIV AIDS in the 40 villages (at committee level): January 2007
2. Training villages and ward HIV committees on their roles and responsibilities as per HIV AIDS policy (governments)
3. Distribute HIV AIDS popular version of policy: 4500 copies: in phases, 2005-2006-2007 (4500 only in 2007) |
Many villagers show up in the HIV testing.
Traditional birth attendants using gloves during delivery, and also sheik in burial ceremony using gloves |
People who did the testing did not get he results.
(But then villagers say that those who were tested did get the results, and those who were not tested complain that they didn’t get results.)
Poor communication during testing campaign.
Not enough copies, as everybody wanted to have his her own copy |
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2. Service providers carry out their responsibilities in the provision of high quality and relevant services in a participatory accountable and transparent manner, based on the rights and responsibilities of citizens
(Carried out by Agriculture Department of the District Council) |
1.Training on the control of Newcastle disease in 8 wards (54 villages): CBETS – community based extension trainers, then chicken vaccinators, counselors, and village vaccination committees
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Increase of chickens in the communities
Price of chickens has increased (from 3000 to 7000 shillings).
Groups have their own income. Lady mentioned they have 200,000 shillings in their savings
Increased awareness of the importance of vaccination |
Lack of reliable transport. The department has no car.
Inadequate funds to cover all the villages
Inadequate qualified staff
Not enough skills to use the money acquired |
Attendance, participation was 100% |
| 2. Training to women groups n the production and processing of cowpeas and pigeon peas, in 12 wards |
12 wards.
When they sell cowpeas, they get their own funds.
Cowpeas are also eaten, protein source (a good alternative of protein, otherwise not available in district)
Availability of seeds for other groups |
Transport, resources, finances
Not enough skills to use the money acquired |
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| 3. Training cassava processing, in 28 villages |
Distributed cassava processing machinery
Group income increased after selling of processed flour
Skills, abilities for preservation
Cassava flour used to produce cakes, which are sold within the village and also outside |
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| 4. Training to Board members of the cooperatives societies. In 25 societies |
16 SACCOS initiated (approx. one per ward)
Understating of roles and responsibilities, and how to operate these organizations |
Financial management?
Transparency to their members |
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5. Training to cashew blower operators, and the use of inputs (before spraying)
Purchase and distribution of blowers (40 blowers, 97 knapsack sprayers)
Purchase of vermin control nets for scaring animals (48 nets)
Purchase of cassava processing machines
Purchase and distribution of small stock for poor and vulnerable families (100 goats, 300 chickens, distributed to 100 households) |
Production has increased. No clear evidence, but crop are at least not destroyed as before)
Families milking, feeding children, using dung for garden
Chickens are used when money is needed suddenly |
Production has increased, so the blowers and inputs are not enough
Staff, transport, etc.
Selection criteria: many villagers are poor, but they only selected two families per village. Who are the poorest? |
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| 6. Training to CBETS to cover the extension gap, both basic and follow up (basic for one month, then two follow up for two weeks, based on needs and challenges on the field) |
(CBETS are villagers, two in each, provide extension support, complement what the ward extension man is doing) |
Not enough CBETS.
Volunteer work, or get money from specific activities (eg. From spraying cashews, vaccination) |
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2. Service providers carry out their responsibilities in the provision of high quality and relevant services in a participatory accountable and transparent manner, based on the rights and responsibilities of citizens
(Carried out by the Land Department of the District Council) |
1. Training on land use to the committees and villagers, in 7 wards, 24 villages (in line with Village Land Act of 1999) |
Communities understand how to use the village land for various economic and social activities
Considered gender issues during training |
Training not covering all villages – because of resources |
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| 2. Survey and demarcation of villages, with GPS, during one month – October-November 2007 |
All villages (118) were surveyed |
Misunderstanding, disagreements on the boundaries between villages |
Expecting to demarcate 40 villages, but because of the demand, the Ministry of Land put more money to cover all villages |
| 3. Construction of Village Land Registry, in 26 villages (like an office) – started in October 2007 |
Some finished, others are still continuing the construction.
Communities volunteered their manpower support |
Some villages have not yet accounted for funds received from district
Only 26 villages were supported, other 92 not due to little funding |
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| 4. Procurement of GPS, total station, computer, software |
Used during the demarcation. Made their work much easier. |
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| 5. An increase in CONCERN’s competence to plan, implement and document the Rights based programme with or through partners |
1. Training CONCERN staff on RBA, equality and land issues, in 2005 and also 2006.
Mainstreaming training to staff.
Documentation and M&E training |
Staff are capable to support partners on implement RB programme, with equality mainstreaming
Support partners to write project proposals, plans and project reports
Staff were capable to write case studies and programme reports, and learning papers
Activities are implemented by partners, it works |
Documentation needs more skills, especially on the analysis of the main issues
High organisation expectations on working with partners
Understanding what RBA is takes time for partners to internalise, know how it works
No visits, exchange of information (although there is communication, sharing of reports)
Partners have limited fund sources, so they rely basically on CONCERN. Puts strain on us |
Extension of the programme beyond 007 |