Sikika
“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
More info
- http://www.sikika.or.tz
- Dar es Salaam: +255 22 26 663 55 | +255 22 26 663 57Dodoma: +255 26 23 213 07 | +255 26 232 131 65
- Dar es Salaam: +255 22 26 680 15
Address
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Waverley Street, off Tunisia Road
Ada Estate, House No 69
P.O.Box 12183
Kinondoni, Dar es Salaam
Tanzania House number 340
Kilimani area
DodomaTanzania
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:
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