VSO Tanzania Main achievements 2013/14. VSO Tanzania Main achievementss 2013/2014

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1 VSO Tanzania Main achievements 2013/14 VSO Tanzania Main achievementss 2013/2014 1

2 Country Office Tanzania Reporting Period 1 st April st March 2014 Programme Areas Country Director 1. Education 2. Health 3. Livelihoods 4. Participation & Governance Jean Van Wetter Report Compiled By Jean Van Wetter Russell Gates Rosalia Marandu Rose Tesha Douglas Taylor Imisa Masinjila Date of Submission 23 st April 2014 Report Reviewed By NA 2

3 Table of content Program overview... 4 Health programme... 5 Overview... 5 Achievements... 5 Inputs, intermediate and ultimate beneficiaries... 6 Livelihoods programme... 7 Overview... 7 Achievements... 7 Inputs, intermediate and ultimate beneficiaries... 8 Education programme... 9 Overview... 9 Achievements... 9 Inputs, intermediate and ultimate beneficiaries Participation & Governance Overview Achievements Intermediate and ultimate beneficiaries

4 Program overview The main goal of VSO Tanzania is to reduce poverty by working with government and non-state agencies to improve access to quality education and health services and to strengthen the ability of disadvantaged people to make a viable living. To achieve this, we finalized in 2013/14 a new framework to measure our impact, with specific indicators for each of our current four programme areas (education, livelihoods, health and participation & Governance), at both impact and outcome level. The summary of this new framework is shown here below: The following chapters detail our main achievements for 2013/14 for each of the program area, in terms of impact and number of beneficiaries. 4

5 Health programme Overview The main objective of our health programme is every woman and every child has access to quality health services, resulting in significant reduction of mother and child mortality. To achieve this, the programme focuses on the following outcomes and includes the following projects 1 : Health System Management Health Services Training Community Engagement and Education Outcome Description Delivery of health services is improved through effective administration (human resources/financial management) and clear operating procedures Standards of healthcare services is improved through access to quality pre-service and in-service training Increased awareness among local communities of available health services and healthy sexual, reproductive and nutritional practices Related projects Hospital Strengthening project (DFD strategic grant) - No Baby Left Out project (DFID strategic grant and GIZ) - E-learning project (DFID strategic grant) - Million Hours Fund (individual donations) - RITA birth registration (UNICEF) St-Francis Hospital Strengthening project (SDC) Mobile Health Clinics (GOAC) Achievements Health system management and health services training Through the Hospital Strengthening project, the St Francis Hospital Strengthening project and No Baby Left Out project we improved the provision of health service through in-service training (continuing professional development) in 11 hospitals across the country. Over 1,600 people were coached or trained on better quality care. The impact of this coaching can be seen in reduced neonatal mortality rates in the three hospitals involved in No Baby Left Out. These saw a reduction in neonatal mortality, reducing from 13.58% in the hospitals we re supporting to 10.16%, a 25% drop. This equates to 89 babies that survived this year that wouldn t have survived last year! In St Francis project, we have early indications that the neo-natal mortality rate have dropped by more than half from 17.4% to 8.2%, although we need to observe a longer term trend before we can certain of this data. Community Engagement and Education Through the Mobile Health Clinics project and the Registration Insolvency Trusteeship Agency (RITA) project, we have increased the number of people accessing health services. Through the Mobile Health Clinics project, the number of people delivering at hospitals attended by trained health personnel increased by 29% from the beginning of the project, while the number of patients seen by hospital outreach services increased by 105%. The RITA project has increased the percentage of babies registered in target reasons from 16% to 40%, meaning an additional 127,000 children were registered than would have been registered before the project. 1 With between bracket the name of the respective donor 5

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7 Livelihoods programme Overview The main objective of our livelihoods programme is that vulnerable groups have improved income, economic resilience and food security. To achieve this, the programme focuses on the following outcomes and includes the following projects 2 : Vocational Training Agricultural Development and Food Security Small & Medium Enterprise (SME) Development Outcome Description Enhance employability of vulnerable groups via improved access to quality professional and vocational training Improve the income of smallholder farmers through access to productive resources, technology, best practices and markers Increase employment of vulnerable groups through supporting creation and development of SMEs Related projects EEVT project (BG) Informal economy (EU submission stage) - CASH project (DFID strategic grant, Accenture and Cordaid) - Kagera agricultural strengthening project (DFID strategic grant) - RISE project (St Antonius Foundation) - SME development (under development) Seaweed cluster (DFATD via CUSO) Achievements Vocational training Through the Enhancing Employment through Vocational Training project, we ve improved the quality of vocational training for 562 students enrolled in two vocational training colleges through coaching of 20 vocational trainers. Student satisfaction with teaching has increased by 7%. 92% of teachers have passed their most recent City and Guild qualification exam and are on their way to being internationally accredited vocational trainers. There s been a significant increase in the time spent on practical training compared to theoretical, from 55% of time spent on practical training to 80%. Lack of practical training was identified by an independent assessment of the centres as a weakness in the training. Lastly the number of students who go on work based placements to get hands on experience has increased from 0 to 7%. All of these changes in the quality of vocational training have resulted in an increase in the pass rate of students of 4% in the last year. We re also tracking the employment and income of graduates and while we have a baseline, it is too early to say whether the project has meant graduates have a greater income or are more likely to be employed. Agriculture development In two projects, the Commercial Agriculture for Small Holder Farmers (CASH) project and the Kagera Agriculture Strengthening (KAS) project we have coached 929 people in good agricultural practice, business management and accessing markets. In the CASH project in Zanzibar, 65% of project beneficiaries reported increased income since joining the project, and this rises to 77% for those that have been a project beneficiary for over a year. We have recently conducted a household survey which will show more concrete figures of how individuals incomes have changed over the last year. The results will be available in May. 2 With between bracket the name of the respective donor 7

8 SME development Our SME development work is earlier in its development than the work under the other two outcomes. We have developed a large project on SME development working with private sector with the objective of increasing the number of people employed by SMEs or the number of people growing their businesses. We expect to hear back on whether this proposal was successful by the end of July. Inputs, intermediate and ultimate beneficiaries 8

9 Education programme Overview The main objective of our education programme is that every student can read, write, apply learning and evaluate. To achieve this, the programme focuses on the following outcomes and includes the following projects 3 : Parent Engagement Business Engagement Teaching Standards Education Leadership Education System Outcome Description Parents are engaged in the education of Their children Student learning and motivation is increased Through collaboration with businesses Quality of teaching is improved Education leadership is improved Coordination across all levels of the education system is improved Related projects Investing in education (MasterCard) Kiketo Bill (DFID strategic grant) EQUIP-T- ELT (DFID Tanzania) Bukoba School Bill (PCF) Zanzibar School Bill (DFID strategic grant) Kiketo Bill (DFID strategic grant) Achievements Of the 5 projects we deliver, 3 are under 14 months old. Subsequently we would not anticipate delivery against our outcome indicators at this point but rather progress toward milestones. Here are those milestones: Parent Engagement - Draft child project policies have been shared with all members of 24 school communities including parents (Bukoba School Bill project) - Parents in 10 schools have attended two parents meetings last year (Kiketo School Bill project) Business Engagement - Work has just started so we cannot measure any achievement yet. Teaching Standards - Academic heads in the 34 Government Teacher Training Colleges and department heads have reviewed and agree upon criteria for quality teaching and learning (EQUIP-T-ELT project); - 18 Academic Deans and 295 department heads in the 34 Government Teacher training colleges have been trained and coached to base on their own professional development needs (EQUIP-T-ELT project); - The 34 Government Training colleges have set 3 pedagogical targets (EQUIP-T-ELT project); Heads of Departments have been supported to work with tutors in their Departments to identify priority professional development needs and delivering trainings (EQUIP-T-ELT project); - 1,165 Heads of Department have planned and deliver training and coaching sessions for college tutors (EQUIP-T-ELT project); - 24 Heads and 5 Ward Education Coordinators have reviewed their school regulations (Bukoba School Bill project); school management teams have reviewed their schools performance and set targets (Zanzibar School Bill project) 3 With between bracket the name of the respective donor 9

10 Education Leadership - 34 college principals and 34 management teams in individual colleges review criteria for a quality Teacher Training college Framework (EQUIP-T-ELT project); - 1,298 college team members have participated in setting Teacher Training College targets (EQUIP-T-ELT project); - 24 Heads and 5 Ward Education Coordinators have reviewed their school regulations (Bukoba School Bill project); - 14 Tanzanian Leadership Facilitators have supported 100 and approximately 5,000 teachers to review the schools strengthens and weaknesses and identify targets for improvement (Zanzibar School Bill project). Education System - Members of the Directorates of Primary, Secondary, Teacher education, the Inspectorate etc participate in steering group meetings (EQUIP-T-ELT project); - 28 Teacher Training College Zonal meetings supporting review and action planning have been conducted (EQUIP-T-ELT project); - 34 colleges and 100 schools review their own performance and set targets (Zanzibar School Bill project). Inputs, intermediate and ultimate beneficiaries 10

11 Participation & Governance Overview The main objective of our participation & governance programme is increase participation of vulnerable groups in decision-making and access economic opportunities. To achieve this, the programme focuses on the following outcomes and includes the following projects 4 : Citizen Engagement Youth development Gender Outcome Description Increase participation of vulnerable groups into decision-making and policy development Improve the confidence of youth to develop themselves and access economy opportunities Mainstream gender in all aspects of our work, looking at access to education and health services for girls and economic empowerment of women and their rights Related projects - Constitution Review project (DFATD and DFID) - Fahama Ongea Sikilizwa (Understand, Speak and Be Heard) proposal (DFID) - Million Hours Fund - International Citizen Service (ICS) - Partnership with UN Women - Mainstreaming among our existing thematic projects Achievements Through the Million Hours project, we have been able to identify and train 330 young people who are now working as peer educators and community volunteers in disseminating education on matters pertaining sexual reproductive health, civic education and entrepreneurship. The entrepreneurship training has enabled young people to form 25 income generating groups in three regions. 13 out of the 25 groups now have income generating projects. 2,115 young people have been sensitized in sexual reproductive health issues through awareness campaigns. There has been increase in interaction among young people and community members involved in the project. This is seen through formation of income generation groups and increase in participation during training sessions. Interaction of young people has widened partner organisation networks. Through the constitution review project we have managed to engage 510 youth and 90 Local authority Leaders as active citizens in the constitution review process where they have received training on constitution review issues and the role of their full participation in the process. Through community outreach program, trained youth and Local authority leaders have managed to reach over 47,000 citizens. As a result of roundtable discussion events, youth have been engaging with local and national decision makers on governance issues to share their experience. VSO Tanzania has managed to present youth views from across 30 wards in three regions which are Lindi, Mtwara and Kagera, to the Tanzania Constitution Review commission to be accommodated in the new constitution. Through the ICS project, we placed 98 youth volunteers (50 Tanzanian and 48 British) in three communities in Kagera region as part of existing VSO projects. Those volunteers contributed to the following outputs: - 3,213 (700 in Kamachumu district and 2,513 in Karagwe district) community members received awareness sessions on reproductive health and nutrition; - 7 village workers were trained on nutrition and reproductive health; - More than 50 farmers were sensitized on animal husbandry. This has helped farmers improve on the care they give to their livestock and has led to increase in production and thus increase in income community members were trained on income generation and 5 projects on income generation for youth (2)and women were established (3) 4 With between bracket the name of the respective donor 11

12 - 28 clubs were established in 7 schools. Through clubs, children were able to develop their communication skills and confidence. Children were also helped to develop in their reading skills. - Teaching aids were developed in 7 schools. This helped reduce teachers work load in schools. - More than 1000 community members were reached through community action days with information on HIV, Malaria, and life skills out of the 48 (20%) Tanzanian volunteers who worked under ICS are now either employed or still engaging in long term active citizenship through volunteering. Intermediate and ultimate beneficiaries Number of intermediate beneficiaries (Million Hours and Constitution Review) Number of ultimate beneficiaries (Million Hours and Constitution Review) Number of ultimate beneficiaries (ICS) Male Female Total ,919 34,316 6,779 12