Gender Factsheet

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Tanzania has made notable progress

on gender equality and women’s

empowerment (GEWE). The Vision 2025

for Tanzania Mainland spulates equality

between men and women as laid down

in the Constuon and recognizes gender

equality and the empowerment of

women in all socio-economic and polical

relaons and cultures as one of the

strategies to aain the vision. Key naonal

policy frameworks such as the Strategy

for Growth and Reducon of Poverty

(MKUKUTA II and MKUZA II in Tanzania

Mainland and Zanzibar respecvely) have

idened gender equality and women’sempowerment (GEWE) as among the

major development issues which require mul-sectoral

approaches. Tanzania’s Five Year Development Plan

(FYDP) emphasizes women’s economic empowerment

as a means of bringing about equality in economic

empowerment.

The Ministry of Community Development, Gender

and Children (MCDGC) is charged with coordinang

and providing guidance for mainstreaming gender in

all development processes. This is supported by the

Women and Gender Development Policy and Strategy

and an Implementaon Plan on Gender.

The government has also introduced Gender

Responsive Budgeng (GRB), led by the Ministry of

Finance (MoF) for improved allocaon and tracking of

nancial allocaons in support of gender equality and

women’s empowerment.

In addion in 2010 the governments adopted the SADC

Protocol on Gender and Development which calls for

a 50/50 representaon in all decision-making organs.

In response to Violence against Women and Girls

(VAWG) the government adopteda GBV Policy and

Management Guidelines in September 2011 and

in November 2011 set up a stakeholder owned

instrument to guide a mul-sectoral prevenon and

response to VAWG, with a plan and Naonal Mul-

A leading youth acvist in the ght against Violence against

Women and Girls (VAWG)

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Programme At a Glance

Programme IAGG - policy and technical advice

Objecve Strengthen UNCT Gender Mainstreaming and Women’sEmpowerment across Programme Delivery and AdvocacyCampaigns through: Support Gender MainstreamingAcross the UNDAP; Enhance Capacies of UNCT toCoordinate Iniaves on GEWE and Development andImplementaon of Inter-Agency Advocacy Strategy onGender Equality.

Duraon July 2011 – June 2015

Status Acve

ImplemenngAgencies

UN Women (Lead and Secretariat), FAO (Current Chair),UNFPA and ILO. Others: UNESCO, UNICEF, UNDP, IOMUNAIDS, WFP and UNHCR.

Partner Naonal Gender Machinery, e.g. MCDGC; the women’smovement and women’s rights network and the UNCountry Team through Programme Working Groups.

Total available

budget

USD 245,000

Benefciaries Duty-bearers and rights-holders in Tanzania, UN CountryTeam



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Sectoral Commiee to end Violence

against Women and Girls. The Tanzania

Commission for AIDS (TACAIDS) has alsolaunched a Gender Operaonal Plan

for HIV and AIDS Response in Mainland

Tanzania. In addion, the Sexual Oences

Special Provisions Act (SOSPA) specically

addresses sexual and gender based

violence.

Although Tanzania is signatory to all major

internaonal and regional instruments that

promote gender equality, implementaon

has been constrained by the delays in

incorporang these rights into naonal

laws along with structural weaknesses

in the jusce system and inadequate

aenon to public educaon, resulng

in women’s limited access to their rights. Women sll

confront manifold violaons of their human rights

— when they cannot parcipate in the decisions

that aect their lives or claim fair representaon,

when they face discriminaon in employment, when

they are denied entlement to land and property, or

when they suer violence within their own home or

face sexual harassment or extoron (sextoron) in

accessing essenal public services. Other obstacles to

rights arise when women and girls are prevented from

going to school or aaining health care, or are subject

to harmful tradional pracces.

Discriminaon and violence against women and girls

are widely prevalent and widespread in Tanzania

and are fueled by patriarchal norms and tradions

and impunity before the law. VAWG’s far-reaching

consequences are not only felt in terms of the psycho-

social and physical well-being of enre families and

communies, but also undermine Tanzania’s overall

economic development.

IAGG in Acon

The UN Inter-agency Gender Group (IAGG) as one of theWorking Groups under the United Naons Delivering

as One (DaO) structure contributes to the UNDAP

Outcome “Strengthen UNCT Gender Mainstreaming

and Women’s Empowerment across Programme

Delivery and Advocacy Campaigns”. The IAGG aims

to ensure that mainstreaming of gender equality and

women’s empowerment in all UN system acvies in

Tanzania is achieved through eecve cooperaoncoordinaon and monitoring. IAGG works towards

three outputs (i) To Support Gender Mainstreaming

Across the UNDAP (ii) Enhance Capacies of UNCT to

Coordinate Iniaves on GEWE and (iii) Develop an

Inter-Agency Advocacy Strategy on Gender Equality in

cooperaon with the UN Communicaon Group.

Through IAGG eorts, gender equality and women’s

empowerment work within the UN has become far

more visible, with greater involvement of dierent

agencies and the UNCT as a whole; there is greater

priorizaon and concrete resource allocaon for GEWE

by UN agencies; there is increased consolidaon of UN

system contribuons to gender equality and women’s

empowerment in the context of the UNDAP - not only

as a cross-cung issue, but also as a programming

principle in the UNDAP along with nancial incenves

(of 20%) of the One Fund allocaon for delivering on

cross-cung consideraons, gender equality beingone of them. The IAGG has developed a number of

knowledge products on GEWE as part of the objecve

to improve knowledge generaon and management.

Police Gender and Children’s Desks play a vital role in providing support

for vicms/survivors of VAWG

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UN in Acon - Programming on

Gender Equality and Women’s

Empowerment

UN’s support to the Naonal Women’s Machineries

in Tanzania Mainland and Zanzibar is geared towards

strengthening the required capacies to coordinate

and ensure mainstreaming of GEWE by Ministries,

Departments and Agencies to integrate gender

equality into naonal development strategies, laws and

policies. Joint eorts have been directed at improving

women’s parcipaon in leadership and decision

making including supporng women candidates in

both parliamentary and local government elecons,

and providing women with access to informaon

through radio listening groups and community radio.

UN supports the MoF and local government

to mainstream gender equality in their

planning and budgeng systems to make

public budgets responsive to the needs of

both women and men by incorporang

their needs in budgetary analysis,planning and allocaons.

In ensuring that women can access the

jusce system, UN support has been

extended to train judges and magistrates

on women’s rights and gender analysis,

resulng in enhanced knowledge,

awareness and enforcement of women’s

rights as enshrined in internaonal

treaes. As Gender Based Violence (GBV)and HIV and AIDS are oen intertwined,

assistance has also been provided in

developing the Gender Operaonal

Plan on gender-sensive HIV/AIDS

intervenons.

The UN has also supported the

empowerment of refugee men and women to improve

their standard of living by involving them in income

generang acvies, raising awareness of gender

issues, encouraging parcipaon, teaching basic

management skills, and lobbying for the inclusion

of women in camp leadership structures. Eorts are

being made to promote the proporon of women in

leadership posions in food management commiees

and by enhancing the capacity of women to negoate

and decide on the use of food.

The Tanzania Gender in Educaon Iniave (TGEI)

connues to advocate for gender issues in educaon,

training teachers to apply gender-responsive teaching

methods and enhancing child parcipaon in speaking

out on concerns related to child marriage, early

pregnancy and the spread of HIV and AIDS.

In collaboraon with the Tanzania Media Women

Associaon (TAMWA), editors and journalists on the

Mainland and Zanzibar have been trained on gender

sensive reporng and on gender based violence.

As a result of improved invesgave journalism skills

gender based violence and other discriminatory issues

were uncovered, followed up and reported on.

The 2011 Gender Fesval brought together

approximately 5,000 gender acvists from every region

of Tanzania and abroad to discuss common objecves

such as a more egalitarian distribuon of natural

resources, including water, gender-responsive and pro-

poor budgeng, a gender-responsive health sector and

acons to prevent gender based violence.

Through the trainings provided by TAWJA, Judges and Magistrates are

applying women’s rights and the Convenon Eliminang All Forms of

Discriminaon Against Women (CEDAW) in court proceedings

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United Naons Resident Coordinator’s OceP. O. Box 9182, Dar es Salaam - Tanzania Phone: +255 22 260 2884 Fax: +255 22 260 2802

To learn more about the 9 addional areas of cooperaon between the UN and the Government of Tanzania under the

2011-2015 UNDAP, please consult the complete UNDAP Informaon Pack or visit hp://tz.one.un.org.

Community Resource Centres have been established in

districts to provide informaon on the current issues

in gender and development. There have been eorts

geared towards enhancing economic empowerment

by training women’s groups on business skills and

engaging in dierent micro-enterprise acvies and

exposure visits to other countries.

The UN has also supported work to address GBV

through SG’S UNiTE Campaign through the “Africa

UNiTE Kilimanjaro Climb” for Internaonal Women’s

Day 2012 and the development of policy intervenons

which resulted in the adopon of Naonal ManagementGuidelines for the Health Sector Prevenon and

Response to Gender Based Violence. The naonal

response through community mobilisaon has been

very strong with regard to GBV parcularly on breaking

the silence and reporng, and acon on incidences of

violence. The Gender and Children’s desks located in

various police staons country-wide and supported by

UN, have connued to provide the required services to

survivors.

HE President J Kikwete speaks at the send-o for the SG

UNiTE Campaign to end VAWG at the Kilimanjaro Climb

P h o t o b y : A n n a C o l l i n s - F a l k / U N W o m e n

Key UN Country Team achievements relevant to the Inter-Agency Gender Group

Gender analysis of the UNDAP results matrix, idenfying key gender equality priories across the programmingelements.

UNCT members trained and guidance notes provided to secure comprehensive adopon of the resultant

recommendaons. Sector specic checklists using the Gender Equality and Women’s Empowerment Framework

(GEWEF) were produced.

Resource allocaon tracked in the rst year of the UNDAP Annual Work Plans, introducing gender markers to

monitor progress.

Knowledge products developed on GEWE as part of the objecve to improve knowledge generaon and

management.

Gender equality and women’s empowerment principles integrated in the Naonal Human Rights Acon Plan

(NHRAP). The UPR includes women’s rights.In collaboraon with DPG GE support was provided to the Naonal Women Machineries in Tanzania Mainland

and Zanzibar was provided to develop the required capacies to coordinate and ensure mainstreaming of GEWE

by Ministries, Departments and Agencies to integrate gender equality into naonal development strategies, laws

and policies.

SG’S UNiTE Campaign through “Africa UNiTE Kilimanjaro Climb” for Internaonal Women’s Day 2012 led to the

development of policy intervenons which resulted in the adopon of Naonal Management Guidelines for the

Health Sector Prevenon and Response to Gender Based Violence.

Financial and technical support was given to the Tarime District authories and Masanga Centre (a school used as

a shelter for girls who run away from FGM) on alternave rites of passage to the prevenon of the planned FGM

of about 4000 girls in Mara region and the “Caravan for Change” a bus consisng of 25 acvists which passed

through 5 dierent regions for 8 days, raising awareness and encouraging people to speak out against VAW.

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