 Concern Tanzania has been implementing a three year pilot programme in Mtwara, Kilolo and Iringa Districts that was meant to run from January 2005 to December 2007 but has been extended to December 2009. The programme focuses on the right to land the right to adequate food and is the first time Concern in Tanzania has attempted to implement a programme using rights based approaches.
The programme is being implemented through both government and civil society partners, and has had many challenges in its early implementation associated both with partners, but also with considerable staff changes necessitated to ensure the programme moves forward. The programme's goal is to enhance the capacity and interaction of rights holders and duty bearers to realise their roles and responsibilities in respecting, protecting, and fulfilling the right to adequate food and the right to land for the poor and vulnerable citizens in Iringa, Kilolo and Mtwara Districts.The main purpose is to enhance the capacity and interaction of rights holders and duty bearers to realise their roles and responsibilities in respecting, protecting, and fulfilling the right to adequate food and the right to land for the poor and vulnerable citizens in Iringa, Kilolo and Mtwara Districts.
 The programme had, between 2005 and December 2007, the following outputs:
Output 1: Poor and vulnerable citizens actively participate in their development and governance by demanding applicable and accountable services based on a clear understanding of their rights and responsibilities;
Output 2: Service providers (Government and CSOs) actively 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 the citizens;
Output 3: Improved recognition by communities of equal rights for men, women, boys and girls through a successful mainstreaming of equality by government and CSOs;
Output 4: Partner CSOs and government mainstream HIV/AIDS and promote linkages to HIV/AIDS related services to enable themselves and communities to reduce the impact of HIV/AIDS; and
Output 5: An increase in Concern’s competence to plan, implement and document a Rights Based Programme with or through partners
Overall documentation purpose
The objective of the documentation exercise, started in March 2008, is to document progress between January 2005 and December 2007, support learning from the programme's experience, and inform future programme implementation by:
- Capturing the implementation process to December 2007 highlighting the ‘momentous’ events in the timeline and their implication to programme delivery,
- Facilitate an analysis of the information collected to identify key lessons that will help shape the implementation of the programme for the period 2008 to December 2009.
Methodology
The documentation exercise followed the methodology proposed by ILEIA. The results of the first workshops, carried out between the 1st and the 7th of April, 2008, are shown in the following pages.
 Setting the boundaries
Project description
Analysis
Resulting document
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