KIWOHEDE

The project mentioned above commenced on 21 st December 2005 following the signing agreement between ILO and Kiwohede on 10 th November 2005. The main strategic purposes of the project aims at providing direct support to the priority target groups in the seven districts namely Temeke, Ilala, Kinondoni, Arusha, Kiomboi, Kondoa, and Iringa rural. As its stipulated in the agreement Kiwohede proposed to provide appropriate and relevant vocational education and skills training to about 1300 eligible children withdrawn from prostitution and those at risk of engaging in prostitution as they have been identified by the centers in respective communities in the seven districts. Kiwohede has adopted VETA package of complementary programme interventions to provide a wide range of vocational skills to girls and boys withdrawn and those at risk of engaging into prostitution in order to enable them to either create their own jobs or acquire wage employment. Similarly, the project at the beginning started with community initiatives to scale- up market-demand driven skills and economic viable activities to parents and guardians of withdrawn children in respective districts.

Further more three project staff has visited the project areas in the respective districts between 21 st December – 28 th January to introduce the project activities, perform skill need assessments and conduct consultative meetings on vocational skills strategy making in seven districts to explore possibilities of collaboration between and among stakeholders. In order to facilitate smooth recruitments of children prevented and withdrawn out of prostitution. Kiwohede deliberately has worked on the modality in close collaboration with VET providers, Community Master Crafts Persons (CMCPs), community organizations, associations of informal sector artisans and trades, cooperatives. Also the organisation consulted the employers' and workers' organizations representatives at the district level . In the needs assessment the organisation conducted a local labour market survey in the targeted districts in order to identify demands and marketable skills. Arrangements with vet providers have been made in order to encompass a wide range of skills, including, but not limited to carpentry, masonry, welding, motor-vehicle/bicycle mechanics, electrical installation, fitter mechanics, plumbing, tailoring and embroidery. In some communities where VET providers are in limited number possibilities to attach the trainees to the community master-crafts through a system of properly managed and monitored apprenticeship have been conducted.

With regards to other social services, Kiwohede has set some strategies to strengthen the collaboration with other partners to ensure that livelihood and skills training go hand in hand with other skills such as life and survival skills, social welfare, non-formal basic education, job counselling, and carrier guidance to reduce chances of the graduated children to return into prostitution.

As part of validation and consensus building with communities, district councils and the target groups basing on the needs assessment findings, Kiwohede have organized seven consultations meetings, each in the respective districts. This has been one step forward to identify potential business and employment opportunities against available services in respective districts. The recommendations drawn from the consultations will pave way for Kiwohede and its affiliates to develop market-driven skills packages for rural and urban-based viable economic activities to meet the diversified needs of the target groups.

Through the consultative process, Kiwohede have identified and analyzed potential partners and stakeholders including employers' and workers' organizations, other NGOs, local and central government departments, VET providers and other potential agencies within the area. In this respect, the objective have been to determine the capacity of local partners before elaborating and implementing capacity-building programmes to match the aspirations of Kiwohede. The aforementioned consultative process have taken place under the auspices of the respective district child labour sub-committees, ward authorities and the existing Kiwohede centers.

An estimated 1300 children withdrawn and those at risk will be identified, withdrawn and screened by key stakeholders in KIWOHEDE's work. These will include community task forces, community leaders, Kiwohede staff who have the experience and technical competence in the identification and withdrawal of children from worst forms of child labour conditions. Under this project, Kiwohede Headquarters is recognized as regulator and coordinator. It has been created a strategy for the organisation to use its wide network, with other VET providers, resources and experience to successfully spearhead the implementation of the project with other NGOs and Existing Kiwohede centers.
The following are the strategies

• Identifying children engaged in worst forms of child labour particularly those working in prostitution and provide them with skills education.
• Preventing and withdrawing children most at risk and providing them with education opportunities, carrier guidance and job placements.

The activities under this action project has been linked to and complement other action programmes implemented by Kiwohede under support of IPEC in order to serve the target groups holistically by providing them with the required skills and services. The required skills and services referred to include life skills, livelihood and survival skills complementary education, as well as post-training activities for marketable income-generating activities based on the findings obtained during the vocational training needs and in relation to market survey.

Project Development Objective
To contribute towards the elimination the elimination of the WFCL in commercial sex exploitation through the provision of vocational educational ,skill training in seven districts and ensuring access to facilitating services to self –employment.

Immediate Objective

• To provide appropriate vocational education skills training to one thousand and three hundred children in Commercial Sex Exploitation and those at risk in seven TBP districts
• To document a sound knowledge base and tools on combating WFCL through formal and non formal low cost skills training strategies for dissemination in other parts of Tanzania.