Sikika | Groups | International Budget Partnership

“Sikkika” formerly known as Youth Action Volunteers, is a Tanzanian CSO founded in 1999. The organization focuses on health advocacy, and has been working on health and budget issues since 2005. Sikika’s overall vision is a Tanzania where healthy and responsible citizens enjoy equitable, affordable, and quality health services as their basic right. Sikika empowers citizens to interact with health service providers through enhancing active community engagement, transparency and accountability within the district health systems. Sikika also works with Parliament and key central Ministries to influence the national health plans and budgets. Read Sikika’s Profile

Details

Name

Irenei Kiria Executive Director

email

info@sikika.or.tz

More info

Website: http://www.sikika.or.tz
Phone: Dar es Salaam: +255 22 26 663 55 | +255 22 26 663 57
Dodoma: +255 26 23 213 07 | +255 26 232 131 65
FAX: Dar es Salaam: +255 22 26 680 15

Address

Waverley Street, off Tunisia Road
Ada Estate, House No 69
P.O.Box 12183
Kinondoni, Dar es Salaam
Tanzania
House number 340
Kilimani area
Dodoma
Tanzania

Area of Expertise

Sikika is a non-governmental organisation that works to improve governance, transparency and accountability within the health and HIV/AIDS sector in Tanzania. In the 2011-2015 Strategic Plan, Sikika covers Dar es Salaam, Dodoma, Manyara, Singida and Coastal Regions
Sikika thrives to achieve the following objectives:

Advocacy and analysis on Health and HIV & AIDS Governance and Financing, Human Resources for Health and Availability of Medicines and Supplies

Citizens and service providers’ engagement on Social Accountability Monitoring

Publications

Freeing Funds to Meet Priorities and Needs: Sikika’s Campaign to Curb Unnecessary Expenditure in Tanzania IBP Case Study, September 2012
Failure to attain Abuja Declaration, Equity in the Ministry of Health, March 2012, The Abuja Declaration and Framework of Action were signed by the African heads of states, including Tanzania, in April 2001. In his statement, Nobel Peace Prize winner Archbishop Desmond Tutu, Honorary Chair of the Africa Public Health Alliance “15% Now Campaign”, urged African heads of state and governments not to, in any way, revise, drop or further delay the implementing of the Abuja commitments.
Medicines and Supplies Availability Brief, 2011
The Ineffectiveness of Complaints Mechanism in the Tanzanian Health Sector, 2011
Do Audit Reports Effect Financial Discipline, Integrity, and Accountability?, August 2011
The Ineffectiveness of the Tanzanian Accountability Framework, 2011
Allowances, Seminars, Vehicles and Travel: A brief on the government's initiative to refocus expenditure April 2010
Who's Taking Care of Our Health? Oversight of Public Health Resources March 2010
Downward Accountabliity in Public Health Care Systems: the Case of Temeke Municipal Councli by Irenei Boniphace Kiria, September 2009

Major Current Activities

Sikika's Profile 2011 – Briefly describes the main budget analysis and advocacy activities of the organization and its involvement with the International Budget Partnership's Partnership Initiative. • Conducting analysis of health and HIV/AIDS sector budgets in order to assess if allocations are according to plans, policies and priorities • Conducting analysis of how the oversight bodies at central and district level perform and provide recommendations for improvement. • Conducting analysis of health sector budget, plans and expenditure reports regarding Human Resources for Health. • Conducting annual HRH deployment and retention monitoring surveys to gather information and advocate for equity in distribution and retention at all levels. • Conduct analysis on citizens’ satisfaction with health workers adherence to ethics (corruption, language, case mismanagement) • Monitor availability of selected types of medicines and supplies at health facilities • Monitor transparency in the procurement and distribution of medicines and supplies, health and HIV &AIDS plans and budgets