UNESCO Dar Es Salaam Newsletter July—September 2015 Issue Education UNESCO supports Tanzania with the Education Sector Analysis through learning by doing Empowering out of school young mothers through Education UNESCO hands over the reviewed ICT Competency Standards for Teachers in Tanzania Natural Sciences East Usambara Biosphere Reserve population learn to grow mushrooms Tanzania hosts international workshop to address artisanal and small-scale mining challenges in Sub-Saharan African countries Culture Leather craft training benefits Maasai women Communication and Information Promoting financial management and entrepreneurship for women through radio: Sengerema testimony The nation vows to promote tolerance and harmony on the International Day of Peace Multi-Sectorial Interventions From circumciser to community educator Responsiveness of socio-cultural approach in protecting PWA: The case of a traditional healer UNESCO Representative joins UN, government and development partners in celebrating 70 Years of UN by planting trees in Kilimanjaro, Mobilizing religious leaders to accelerate implementation to end the AIDS epidemic by 2030 in Eastern and Southern Africa INSIDE THIS ISSUE Message From the Head of Office, UNESCO Dar es Salaam Dear Friends, colleagues and partners, Quarter 3 at the UNESCO Dar es Salaam Office was a very busy time: The support for electoral and civic education was complemented with the launching of a peace campaign during International Peace Day (21 September). At the same time, the socio- cultural approach used for mobilization of the communities for the protection of People with Albinism is already paying off, as reported by one of the Traditional healers who was able to help the police to arrest a trafficker in human body parts. Maasai girls may start breathing at peace as traditional circumciser shuns away Female Genital Mutilation practice and joins UNESCO as ambassador against those practices. And what about Maasai illiterate women learning about tanning and leather processing, opening new pathways for their socio-economic empowerment and contribute to a richer creative industry in the country? The successful review of the ICTs Competences of Teachers framework is also a step forward towards the completion of the first teachers Competences Framework Tanzania is starting designing. And in Natural Sciences, population of the East Usambara Biosphere Reserve grow and taste mushrooms for the first time, discovering a new green avenue for income generation that goes hand in hand with the forest and bio-diversity conservation. And there is more that we hope you will enjoy reading in this 3rd Edition of the UNESCO Dar es Salaam Newsletter. We hope for feedback to enrich our programme and actions. Kind regards, Zulmira Rodrigues UNESCO Dar es Salaam Head of Office and Country Representative Ms. Zulmira Rodrigues, UNESCO Dar es Salaam Head of Office and Country Representative
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UNESCO Dar Es Salaam Newsletter
July—September 2015 Issue
Education UNESCO supports Tanzania with the
Education Sector Analysis through
learning by doing
Empowering out of school young mothers
through Education
UNESCO hands over the reviewed ICT
Competency Standards for Teachers in
Tanzania
Natural Sciences East Usambara Biosphere Reserve
population learn to grow mushrooms
Tanzania hosts international workshop to
address artisanal and small-scale mining
challenges in Sub-Saharan African
countries
Culture Leather craft training benefits Maasai
women
Communication and
Information Promoting financial management and
entrepreneurship for women through
radio: Sengerema testimony
The nation vows to promote tolerance and
harmony on the International Day of
Peace
Multi-Sectorial
Interventions From circumciser to community educator
Responsiveness of socio-cultural
approach in protecting PWA: The case of
a traditional healer
UNESCO Representative joins UN,
government and development partners in
celebrating 70 Years of UN by planting
trees in Kilimanjaro,
Mobilizing religious leaders to accelerate
implementation to end the AIDS epidemic
by 2030 in Eastern and Southern Africa
INSIDE THIS ISSUE Message From the Head of Office, UNESCO Dar es Salaam
Dear Friends, colleagues and
partners,
Quarter 3 at the UNESCO Dar es
Salaam Office was a very busy
time:
The support for electoral and
civic education was
complemented with the
launching of a peace campaign
during International Peace Day
(21 September).
At the same time, the socio-
cultural approach used for
mobilization of the communities for the protection of People with Albinism is
already paying off, as reported by one of the Traditional healers who was able to
help the police to arrest a trafficker in human body parts.
Maasai girls may start breathing at peace as traditional circumciser shuns away
Female Genital Mutilation practice and joins UNESCO as ambassador against
those practices. And what about Maasai illiterate women learning about tanning
and leather processing, opening new pathways for their socio-economic
empowerment and contribute to a richer creative industry in the country?
The successful review of the ICTs Competences of Teachers framework is also a
step forward towards the completion of the first teachers Competences Framework
Tanzania is starting designing.
And in Natural Sciences, population of the East Usambara Biosphere Reserve grow
and taste mushrooms for the first time, discovering a new green avenue for income
generation that goes hand in hand with the forest and bio-diversity conservation.
And there is more that we hope you will enjoy reading in this 3rd Edition of the
UNESCO Dar es Salaam Newsletter. We hope for feedback to enrich our
programme and actions.
Kind regards,
Zulmira Rodrigues
UNESCO Dar es Salaam Head of Office and Country Representative
Ms. Zulmira Rodrigues, UNESCO Dar es Salaam Head of
Office and Country Representative
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UNESCO supports Tanzania with the
Education Sector Analysis through
learning by doing
Under the overall coordination of the UNESCO Dar
es Salaam Office and the technical leadership of the
UNESCO International Institute for Education
Planning (IIEP) the quarter started with a workshop
for consolidation of the Education Sector Analysis
that incorporated inputs emanating from stakeholders
consultative meetings on the key sub-sectors
preliminary findings from previous undertakings.
The activity is part of a key exercise entrusted to
UNESCO by the Ministry of Education and
Vocational Training (MoEVT) and the Development
Partners in Education in Tanzania, whereby the
Education Sector Analysis will lead to the
development of the new Education Sector
Development Plan.
This exercise, initiated in April 2015, takes a
capacity building approach, whereby 27 national
experts from three education assigned ministries
(Ministry of Education and Vocational Training,
Prime Minister’s Office-Regional Administration
and Local Government, and Ministry for Community
Development, Gender and Children) work hand in
hand with UNESCO experts from the key Education
Institutes, IIEP, the UNESCO Institute of Life Long
Learning (UIL) and the UNESCO Institute of
Statistics (UIS). The learning by doing approach has
so far enabled a better understanding on
identification of quality data and information to feed
the analysis as well as the introduction of the notion
of building up a simulation model that will enable a
more accurate and realistic planning.
The workshop was attended by the Deputy Director
of IIEP, indicating the high level of importance
UNESCO places in this endeavour.
Some members of the Core Team in one of the sessions
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149 out of the originally targeted 220 teenage
mothers have seen a dream came through when after
2.5 years of investment they finally graduated.
Funded by the UNESCO/Japanese Funds-in-Trust,
the project “Provision of alternative learning
opportunities for adolescent girls forced out of
school due to teenage pregnancies” was
implemented by the Institute of Adult Education
(IAE) and supervised by the UNESCO Dar es
Salaam Office. The programme enabled the
establishment of 10 training centres in Shinyanga,
Kahama and Msalala Districts, where drop out of
girls in secondary education due to unplanned
pregnancy is rampant. The training consisted of two
separate courses: the first was meant to strengthen
the girls foundation abilities by reinforcing their
literacy and numeracy skills, added by
entrepreneurial and life skills development. The
second part consisted of vocational training in
different trades identified by the learners: tailoring
and needlework, batik making and tie & dye, soap
making, production of petroleum jelly as well as
cookery.
Empowering out of school young mothers through second chance
education
Dr. Noriko Tanaka buying batik from teenage mothers in
Segese during the graduation ceremony
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Besides accomplishing the training and having
acquired their certificates, the young mothers will
now enrol in a 2 years Open and Distance Learning
(ODL) programme offered by IAE, after which the
learners will undertake a qualifying test to allow
them to take Form IV national exams. Attainment
of the Form IV exams, will enable them re-enter the
formal education system, if they so wish and hence
realise their educational dreams. The Ministry of
Education and Vocational Training of Tanzania
Mainland, decided to set up this programme after
the great results of the UNESCO JFIT project.
In addition, district authorities, inspired by the
success of the programme are linking the newly
graduates with micro finance services, supporting
the young mothers in the further development of
small businesses and generation of income to
sustain themselves and their children.
The graduation ceremony took place in August
2015 and was attended by the Director of Non
Formal and Adult Education of the MoEVT, Mr.
Salum Mnjagila, the representative of the
Ambassador of Japan, Dr. Noriko Tanaka, the
Director of the IAE, Dr. Fidelis Mafumiko, and
Regional and District authorities, who all expressed
their appreciation for the substantial results of this
project.
The project is already informing policy formulation
by the government in support of re-entry of drop out
girls into the education system.
One of the young mothers who graduated from the program
proudly displaying her certificate
Empowering out of school young mothers through second chance education
Some of the graduated teenage mothers with their children during the graduation ceremony in Iselemagazi, Shinyanga
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UNESCO hands over the reviewed
ICT Competency Standards for
Teachers in Tanzania
The reviewed ICT Competency Standards for
Teachers was presented and handed over to the
Ministry of Education and Vocational Training
(MoEVT) on the 10th September 2015. In this event
the Head of Office and Representative for UNESCO
Dar es Salaam Office, Ms Zulmira Rodrigues
submitted the document to the Tanzania
Commissioner of Education, Professor Eustella
Bhalalusesa. Witnessing the event were Professor Liu
Yun, First Secretary of the Embassy of China in
Tanzania, representing the Ambassador of the
People’s Republic of China, high level officials from
Tanzania Institute of Education, the National
Commission for UNESCO Secretary General as well
as other officials from MoEVT and the media.
The ICT Competency Standards for Teachers defines
the competency outcomes, and the supporting
knowledge and skills that are needed to utilize ICT in
performing the job roles related to teaching. It
provides the performance indicators to evaluate the
level of knowledge and competence of teacher to
apply ICT in the educational setting. Specifically, the
set of competencies aims to prepare teachers to
become users of various ICTs to help both the
students and enable them benefit from the technology.
The review process took place under UNESCO’s
guidance, involving specifically the UNESCO
Regional Advisor of Communication and Information
in the Nairobi Office and the UNESCO Dar Es
Salaam CFIT Project Officer, working together with a
review team from the MoEVT.
As stated by the Education Commissioner, this
document, aligned with UNESCO ICTs Competency
Framework, forms and important step towards the
formulation of the entire competency framework for
teachers standards in the country.
This exercise was promoted within the context of the
UNESCO funded Chinese Funds-in-Trust (CFIT)
Project that aims to promote Teachers Education in
Tanzania through ICT innovation. The Project will
further support the validation of the ICT-CSTT in
Tanzania to ensure integration of the Standards in
teaching and learning Science and Mathematics
subjects and improve the delivery of hard to teach
concepts.
UNESCO Dar es Salaam HoO Ms Zulmira Rodrigues handing over the
reviewed ICT Competency to Tanzania Commissioner of Education, Professor
Eustella Bhalalusesa
Members of the review team in a group photo with Ms Zulmira Rodrigues
and Professor Eustella Bhalalusesa during the ceremony
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East Usambara Biosphere Reserve
population learn to grow
mushrooms
On September 19th, 2015, women of East
Usambara harvested their first mushrooms, one
month after their technical training in mushroom
farming.
Mushroom farming is one of the new alternative
livelihoods that UNESCO is promoting in the
Biosphere Reserves as a means of supporting the
communities to undertake green businesses that
sustain the bio diversity of the East Usambara
Biosphere Reserve (EUBR).
The training encompassed the building of locally
made shelters, the seeding and later the harvesting
and packaging of the mushrooms, ensuring direct
links to the market and farmers associations, while
providing entrepreneurial training and developing
systems of revolving funds; enhanced the capacity
of the farmers in managing their own businesses,
in developing self-financing mechanisms and in
making use of the benefits of scale.
During the training, they did not only learn how to
grow mushrooms, but also how to cook them, as
mushrooms were prepared for lunch after the first
harvest. Some of the trainees tasted Oyster
Mushrooms for the first time in their lives, and
were very pleased.
During the revolving fund training, Ben
Mwambele of the ILO supported association of
Start and Improve Your Business Association
(SIYB), asked the trainees:
“Today, UNESCO Dar es Salaam and KOICA are
here to help you, but how about tomorrow? If we
keep waiting for the help from government and
foreign donors, and meanwhile do nothing, all we
can expect is poverty.”
This was followed by a long and heavy silence.
The UNESCO Dar es Salaam Office representative
asked the beneficiaries. “Do you think you are
poor?”
“Yes.” All the trainees answered.
“Just look around yourselves. Look at the forest,
land, water, food and this weather. You have never
been poor. You are rich. UNESCO is not here to
bring you money, but it to provide you with skills
to make better use of your own resources and value
what you already have”
In the second day of the training, the trainees, who
on the first day complained that there was no per
diem provided, even brought their neighbours to
the class. The training benefited around 700
participants, grouped in 56 groups. A 70 years old
retired soldier, Mr. Humford from Kuze explained:
“My entire life, I have never thought about how I
can develop my business by myself. Today, I feel
like I was re-born with new ideas and
possibilities”.
With this approach, UNESCO Dar es Salaam
expects to see many more such positive changes
and results.
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UNESCO Dar es Salaam HoO, Ms Zulmira Rodrigues receiving a
pack of mushrooms grown in EUBR from Myoung Su Ko, UNESCO
project officer. Witnessing are Jennifer and Nancy, colleagues
from the UNESCO Dar es Salaam Office
A group of beneficiaries in Zirai village, East Usambara
purchasing shares after the revolving fund training
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Tanzania hosts an international
workshop to address Artisanal and
Small-Scale Mining (ASM) Sector
formalisation challenges in Sub-
Saharan African countries
18 African countries representative’s, NGOs and
academia have benefitted from a four-day’ workshop
organized by the UNESCO Nairobi Office on
Formalization of Artisanal and Small-Scale Mining in
Eastern and Southern Africa (ASM).
The workshop took place from 2 - 5 September 2015
in Arusha, aimed at improving the contribution of
ASM to the formal economy and rally support from
government authorities to provide incentives to
improve the artisanal mining sector, improving the
working conditions for better productivity, safety and
environmental care.
Complementary to the workshop, the participants
visited two Tanzanite mining sites in Arusha where
they could observe part of the key messages of the
meeting in real life, e.g. the low status of the mining
safety due to lack of protective gears, the considerable
waste of minerals due to low technology levels of
production and disorderly organized loads of row
excavated mineral materials which ultimately may
have a negative impact on the environment and
ecosystems.
It is expected that the workshop results will inform
policy makers and the public on the way forward for
the ASM sector in Sub-Saharan African countries in
order to increase productivity and efficiency in the
mineral sector. The meeting was possible thanks to the
generous financial contribution from the Swedish
International Development Agency (SIDA).
Piles of debris around the mining sites in Mererani, Arusha
East Usambara Biosphere Reserve population learn to grow mushrooms
Empowering people through knowledge acquisition, provides the hope and possibilities to people; it
goes beyond the proverbial say “Do not provide me
with the but with the fishing rod, it goes further at it
is indeed about strengthening people capacities…
even if it means growing mushrooms!
The mushroom farming activities took place under
UNESCO’s Green Economy in Biosphere Reserves
(GEBR) project funded by Korea International
Cooperation Agency (KOICA). The project has been
implemented since November, 2013, focusing on five
green business modalities; spice farming, beekeeping,
mushroom farming, fish farming and butterfly
farming. The training benefited around 700
participants, grouped in 56 groups.
A newly constructed mushroom shelter in East Usambara
Biosphere Reserve
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Leather craft training benefits
Maasai women
Ms Langiishu, age 17, a mother of one and a fourth
wife, is one of the 31 women attending leather craft
training in creativity and innovation in Ololosokwan
Village in Serengeti. Though illiterate, she is very
optimistic and happy of her newly acquired skills and
knowledge. She said shyly, with a wide smile that
“she will be able to send her child to school while
earning an income”. Her dream is to form a leather
craft enterprise group with other young mother’s
from her ward.
In the outskirts of Ololosokwan Village in Serengeti
National Park; it is the exquisite group of women
from five wards attending leather training, who take
the centre stage. Most of the village men stopped by
the training centre, curious to know what the women
are learning. As tourists get mesmerized seeing
Maasai women wrapped in their bright traditional
outfit learning to sew for the first time.
Leather craft training is one of UNESCO Dar es
Salaam Office initiatives to promote alternative
livelihood and income opportunities to the Maasai
community through the Community Art Space
Project. The main objective of the program is to
ensure that Maasai young girls and women have the
opportunity to engage in economic activities to
improve their quality of life, obtain vocational
knowledge and skills needed for their development in
becoming economically independent. The training
also provides Maasai community with appropriate
training to remould and sharpen with a range of skills
associated with entrepreneurship.
In Maasai land, women are faced with implausible
responsibilities of providing for their families,
livestock and themselves. Unfortunately, their low
status in their societies does not allow them to own
cattle, hence making them completely dependent on
their husbands. Moreover, the effect of climate
change continues to pose severe responsibilities to
already exhausted women.
The leather craft training can make sustainable use of
Maasai community cultural and natural resources,
empower the women by developing their skills and
improve their access to the tourism market and
contribute economically and socially to their families
instead of depending solely on their husbands’
livelihoods.
The CAS project is co-funded by the EU Delegation
in Dar es Salaam.
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Sewing star, Ms Laangiishu, (first right) working on a machine
while others are looking
Maasai women busy sewing
Some of the products produced by the Maasai women
A Maasai woman lining the lanes
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Promoting financial management
and entrepreneurship through local
radios benefits women: Sengerema
testimony
Rosemary Mattu is among community members
who have benefited from financial management
and entrepreneurship trainings through local
radios given by UNESCO under the ICT funded
project by the Swedish International Development
Agency.
The trainings aimed to give community radios
capabilities to eliminate the dependence on
financing and economic independence.
‘My status as a woman entrepreneur has improved
a lot after taking part in the trainings, my
businesses have improved and expanded, I am
very proud of it’’, said Rosemary Matu Directors
and owner of Rosemary Day Care Nursery School
in Sengerema, Mwanza.
Apart from other businesses, she has established a
kindergarten given the lack of early childhood
care facilities in rural areas. Rosemary, who
serves as Chair of Sengerema Telecentre Board,
says the kindergarten has in addition created five
jobs: two female teachers, one cook (a widow), a
driver and watchman (males). “We are quite
happy because we get job satisfaction, we are
provided with transport to and from work, lunch
and a good pay,” said a newly employed female
teacher at St. Rosemary Nursery Day Care Centre
which has 40 children.
The Day Care Centre also contributes to
Sengerema Telecentre income through community
radio promotional adverts at a minimal rate of
TZS 20,000.00 to 30,000.00 prime time. Adverts
have attracted more children to join the
kindergarten reaching 40 from six children since
2012. Another plan to benefit the Telecentre is
introduction of computer classes for the children.
Sengerema Community Radio is one of the nine
community radios supported by UNESCO and
the first local radio in Tanzania managed by
women. It has always placed the women
development agenda at the forefront.
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Rosemary Mattu, Directress of Rosemary Day Care Nursery
School in Sengerema
Children in a classroom at Rosemary Day Care Nursery
School
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A nationwide vow to promote
tolerance and harmony on the
International Day of Peace
As the world marked International Day of Peace on 21
September 2015, UNESCO, Inter-Religious Council
for Peace in Tanzania (IRCPT), national leaders and
local leaders in Mwanza gathered at Nyanza Primary
School to discuss peace building measures in
Tanzania in the run up to the elections.
The one-day event, co-hosted by UNESCO and
IRCPT, was the first of its kind in Mwanza, a region
where electoral conflicts are prone to occur. Key
stakeholders graced the event, including the Registrar
of Political Parties, the Islamic religious leader of
Mwanza Region, the Chairperson of the Association
of Bishops, Regional Commissioner, Regional Police
Commander, media representatives (TV, print media
and community radios) as well as representatives
from women, youth groups and people with
disabilities.
The event enabled an open dialogue on the
importance of peace, especially in the context of the
upcoming general elections. While religious leaders
called upon keeping the long-cherished tradition of
peace in Tanzania, they also pleaded for politicians to
refrain from using slogans that could divide the
country. Young people on their side called for more
investment on peace education and capacity building
trainings for the youth, stating that, “Many conflicts
can be mitigated in this way. In addition they also
requested the Police Commander support to advocate
for police to restrain resorting to violence as this could
escalate conflicts. Media representatives as the
Executive Director of Union of Tanzania Press Clubs
of Mwanza reflected upon the malpractices among
certain media personnel who take political bribery and
urged the media to adopt an ethical code of conduct in
their electoral reporting.
The Registrar of Political Parties, Judge Francis
Mutungi, congratulated the organizers for choosing a
school for this peace advocacy, referring in his speech
that indeed it is in the minds of young children where
the seeds of peace need to be planted.
The ceremony was closed with a petition for peace,
signed by the more than 150 persons present, followed
by an endearing plea of a young girl and boy
requesting the grownups to ensure that they may grow
up in peace.
The event was widely broadcasted with the attendance
of eight community radios, five nationwide
newspapers, as well as ITV and Star TV who ensured
broad national broadcasting featuring the event twice
on the 21st September. Furthermore, all 28 DEP
participating radios, under COMNETA, received and
broadcasted news features on the Celebration of
International Day of Peace in Mwanza throughout
Tanzania.
International Day of Peace was established in 1981 by
the United Nations to strengthen the ideals of peace.
The meeting held in Mwanza was part of the
worldwide commemorations in Tanzania that aimed
to increase public awareness of peace.
Here is the like to a peace video from UNESCO Dar
es Salaam office: https://www.facebook.com/
unescodar/videos/429846603806792/
Primary school students performing during the celebrations in
Mwanza
The Registrar of Political Parties, Judge Francis Mutungi speaking