Established in Arusha
in 2000, Hakikazi is an economic and social justice advocacy
organization committed to the development of practical knowledge and
understanding of poverty issues and policies at local level. Hakikazi
acts as a catalyst; empowering marginalized people with the knowledge
and confidence to have an effective voice with which to influence
decisions affecting their lives and to achieve their civil and political
rights at local, national, and international levels.
Major Current Activities
Publication and
use of plain language guides as a tool in a process of poverty policy
down-streaming designed to create knowledge, understanding, feedback,
participation, and pro-poor change.
Poverty policy
up-streaming of policy impacts and practice on poor and marginalized
communities.
Public education
on development issues.
Participatory
monitoring of poverty reduction strategy implementation in terms
of budgets, outputs, and outcomes.
Promotion
of accountability in natural resource management.
Capacity building
to achieve sustainable livelihoods.
Participatory
action planning to identify and exploit livelihood opportunities,
taking into account the impact of HIV/AIDS.
Established in 1993 TGNP works in the civil society sector, focusing on
the practical promotion and application of gender equality and equity
objectives through policy advocacy and mainstreaming. TGNP
focuses on macro-economic policies and planning with particular focus on
budget processes to address gender equality as well as women's
empowerment through training, information, lobbying, and network
building. In 1997
TGNP and
its FemAct partners started the Gender Budget Initiative (GBI) to
promote the design and adoption of tools for gender mainstreaming of
budget policies.
Major
Current Activities
Gender training in the areas of:
gender budgeting and performance tracking, gender and macro-economics,
policy planning and budgeting, gender policy and HIV-AIDS,
transformative feminist organizing and movement building.
Coalition building and networking at
local, regional, and international levels.
Generation, management, packaging
and dissemination of information.
Consolidate the Gender Training Institute (GTI) as an autonomous
training institution in response to the capacity needs for
transformative feminist movement building, policy engagement, and
social transformation at all levels.
Plot 96,Mikocheni
Light Industrial Area 2nd Floor, Central Technology Building
P.O. Box 21496
Dar es Salaam
Areas of Expertise
Facilitates
the process of Poverty Reduction Strategy (PRS) monitoring in all its
program areas (education,
HIV/AIDS, gender, agriculture, and food security)
through local partners. The PRS
monitoring includes independent and multi-stakeholder monitoring of
government performance, including tracking flow of funds, corruption,
and service delivery.
Major Current
Activities
Budget monitoring of PRSPs.
Capacity building of local NGOs to engage with policy formulation and
implementation.
Sector interventions in education,
HIV/AIDS, gender, agriculture, and food security.
Plot 739
Mathuradas Street
P.O Box 79401
Dar es Salaam, Tanzania
Areas of
Expertise
Hakielimu was
founded in 2001 with 13 (Tanzanians) members. HakiElimu works to realize
equity, human rights, and democracy in basic education by facilitating
communities to transform schools and influence policy making. HakiElimu
works to influence policy making by stimulating imaginative public
dialogue; conducting critical policy
analysis and advocacy; and collaborating with partners to advance
common interests and social justice. The four program areas at
HakiElimu are: media, citizen engagement, policy advocacy and analysis,
and access to information.
HakiElimu’s approach focuses on creating
space for concerned citizens to make a difference in education and
democracy.
