Organizing regular meetings at the community level will help solve problems and access justice on time

G-Mdadisi · 2023-04-12T11:12:35+00:00

THE community mobilisers through 39 meetings they held with the community in the four Districts of Pemba Island managed to raise a total of 44 challenges/problems for the year 2022. The disturbances were raised in different places on the island of Pemba in Wete District 12, Micheweni 12, Chake Chake 9 and Region 11. The problems they raised were successfully brought to various levels for resolution, where 17 problems were successfully resolved, while 10 of them were resolved in a short period of mobilizing the community to know and claim their rights. Among the issues that have been resolved are issues of access to clean and safe water, access to quality education services for special groups, and road infrastructure where all issues affect women more to achieve their goal of participating in leadership positions. Thus, in order to build a society capable of recognizing the importance of claiming their basic rights, PEGAO gives advice to the community, sheriffs and the leadership of Local Governments to collaborate together through the shehia committees with the aim of organizing meetings to discuss the challenges they face in order to provide solutions to them the right time. "We believe that through the participation of citizens to discuss the challenges and concerns faced by women to obtain their rights, including leadership, this will help to promote the understanding of the community to participate directly in demanding their rights, explained the Chairperson of community mobilisers in the Wete District of the North Pemba Region", Ms Husna Ali Said. The chairperson said that local government leaders should realize that they have the responsibility to organize meetings at the community level to deal with the challenges they face in order to build a society that follows the principles of gender equality for all in every area and find the best way to deal with those challenges through their participation discuss those challenges. Recognizing the importance of women, various laws and Policies of Zanzibar have explained about the right of women to participate in democracy and leadership, the Constitution of Zanzibar in 1984, and even Zanzibar Development Vision 2050 recognizes the need to build gender equality in society. In addition, the good Governance Policy of 2011, states in its declaration No. 4.2 that the Government, in collaboration with various stakeholders, will ensure that there will be better and equal participation of women and men in all decision-making bodies at all levels. Project of Strengthening Women in Leadership (SWIL) aimed at increasing participation of women in democratic process and leadership implemented by the Tanzania Media Women Association, Zanzibar (TAMWA ZNZ) the Zanzibar Female Lawyers Association (ZAFELA) and the Pemba Environmental and Gender Association (PEGAO) in collaboration with the Norwegian Embassy.

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Start date Apr 12, 2023
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