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TANZANIA MEDIA WOMEN’S ASSOCIATION-
ZANZIBAR
PROJECT PROGRESS REPORT
Tanzania Media Women’s Association-Zanzibar P. O. Box 741 Tunguu Zanzibar, Phone: +255772378378 Email: [email protected] Website: www.tamwaznz.org WO
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Table of Contents
List of Acronyms ......................................................................................................................................... iii
Introduction ................................................................................................................................................... 1
Project Progress and Results achieved .......................................................................................................... 2
Outcome 1 ................................................................................................................................................. 2
Outcome 2 ................................................................................................................................................. 4
Outcome 3 ............................................................................................................................................... 11
Outcome 4 ............................................................................................................................................... 12
Monitoring and Evaluation ......................................................................................................................... 12
Challenges ................................................................................................................................................... 12
Ways Forward ............................................................................................................................................. 13
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List of Acronyms
ANGOZA Association of NGOs of Zanzibar
BASAZA Baraza la Sanaa Zanzibar (Zanzibar Art and Entertainment
Council)
CRP Community Resource Person
GBV Gender Based Violence
IGAs Income Generating Activities
JKT Jeshi la Kujenga Taifa
JOCDO Jonzani Credit Development Organization
JUMAKAB The Association for Development North B/ Jumuiya ya Maendeleo
Kaskazini B
JUVIKUKA The Youth Organization for fighting against Violence North,
Unguja/Jumuiya ya Vijana ya Kupinga Udhalilisha Kaskazini
MZF Milele Zanzibar Foundation
PESACA Pemba Saving Credit Association
PPIZ Practical Permaculture Institute Zanzibar
TAHA Tanzania Horticultural Association
TAMWA Tanzania Media Women’s Association
TGNP Tanzania Gender Network Program
UMI BANK UMI derived from Arab word means MAMA
UWAUZA The Union for Women with Disabilities Zanzibar/Umoja
wa Wanawake wenye Ulemavu Zanzibar
UWZ The Assiciation for People with Disabilities Zanzibar/Umoja wa
Watu Wenye Ulemavu Zanzibar
VAC Violence Against Children
VSL Village Saving and Loaning
WEZA Women Empowerment in Zanzibar
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ZAFELA Zanzibar Female Lawyers Association
ZBFD Zanzibar Board of Food and Drugs
ZASCI Zanzibar Seaweed Cluster Initiative
ZBS Zanzibar Board of Standard
ZGC Zanzibar Gender Coalition
ZLSC Zanzibar Legal Services Center
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Introduction
This is the semiannual report of Women Empowerment in Zanzibar (WEZA II) project, fourth
phase marking the end of second year. In this period in tandem, WEZA II provided demand
driven trainings including mentoring, exposure visits and equipments. These were all ascertained
through regular monitoring visits in collaboration with the Business committees, Community
Resource Persons, media and the project partner, Milele. WEZA II is a three and half year
project funded by Mlilele Zanzibar Foundation and implemented by Tanzania Media Women’s
Association (TAMWA), Zanzibar. The overall objective of WEZA II is to contribute to reduced
poverty and improved social justice in Zanzibar and a specific objective to see income increased
and social, cultural, and political barriers to women’s empowerment progressively reduced for
7,000 rural poor women from eight (8) districts (4 from Pemba and 4 from Unguja). The Unguja
districts include South, Central, North A and North B. For Pemba the districts are Wete, Mkoani,
Chake Chake and Micheweni. WEZA II being a successor of WEZA I project also works in
close collaboration with JOCDO, PESACA and Union for Development in North B, Jumuiya ya
Maendeleo ya Kaskazini B (JUMAKAB).
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Project Progress and Results achieved
Outcome 1: At least 280 women’s groups mobilized, successfully implementing village
savings and loan scheme (152 new and 128 existing groups) and contributing to family and
community needs.
VSL groups from both Unguja and Pemba continue to engage in saving and loaning with the
value of share ranging from Tsh.1,500/= to 10,000/= per week. The VSL women are largely
depending on saving and loaning to initiate or expand their entrepreneurial activities through
engaging in market driven income generating activities and petty trading.
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In total VS&L producers managed to save Tsh. Tsh.800,020,000/= where 312,749,000/= for
2016 and 487,271,000/= for 2017 implying the increase saving to approximately 55.8%.
The case of Mavungwa
The Tupate Sote Group from Mavungwa Village, Mbuzini Chake Chake Pemba. The group
involving 15 VSL women paying the value of share of Tsh.5,000/= each per week
equivalent to Tsh.1,000/ per day. The Group has a total saving of Tsh.4,832,000/=
accumulated from July 2017 when the second cycle started. Women from this group
borrowed all the money from their saving to initiate or expand their individual and group
businesses. Almost each group member has established her own private vegetable farm.
The women managed to grow sunflower, banana and beans over the farm of two acres each.
The group is also engaged in poultry, handcraft activities and making soap and processing
food. The individual VSL producers from Tupate Sote are also engaged in cultivation
activities growing cash crops and vegetables. These women are selling their products in
community, main shops in Chake Chake Town and exporting to Oman.
The group sells its products up to five shops in Chake Chake town. VSL producers in this
group are also selling their handcraft products in schools, hospitals and at the public offices.
They sell handcraft bags; palm leaves and beads made. For the former they sell between 8
– 13 bags per earning 210,000/= per month and for the later they sell around 20 bags
earning 400,000/= per month. In total they have earned 1,125,000/= for handbags. The
group is also engaged in soap making, vinegar, poultry which brought home Tsh.311,000.
This group also produces sunflowers and has already started constructing their sunflower
industry as shown in the picture above.
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Outcome 2: At least 3,000 women and girls in Unguja and Pemba are economically
transformed engaging in market driven Income Generating Activities (IGAs); access
market, control productive assets and formalize their enterprises.
In this reporting period VSL women were engaged in capacity build sessions to enhance their
skill in producing quality products. A total of 226 VSL women were therefore involved at
Training of Trainers (TOT). Particularly for soap making, women were capacity built on making
essential oil, massaging oil, hair oil, shampoo, liquid soap and bleaching (JIK). On handcrafts
they were introduced to door mates made by coconut shell fibres, basket, wallets and earrings
using beads.
On vegetables they were particularly linked to organic farming for better produces and in poultry
they were oriented on local poultry with bigger up to 20 kilograms and tasteful chickens. The
women producers are also supported to access legal status and formalization of their business
including accessing registration to Zanzibar Cooperative Society Department, Zanzibar Board of
Food and Drugs (ZBFD), Zanzibar Board of Standard and Chief Government Chemist.
The story of Cheju
The VSL women from three groups (Tusaidiane, Mnyonge Mpeni and Tumuombe
Mola) at Cheju, Central District Unguja are engaged in handcrafts made up of palm
leaves. The groups have devided roles and responsibilities of which some are engaged
in collection of the palm leaves, some plate and others look for markets. Some
markets reached by the groups are hotels from Paje, Michamvi and Jambiani;
exhibitions such as Sabasaba, BASAZA, Jua Kali in Uganda, Mwenge exhibition and
exhibitions at Nungwi and Forodhani. They also sell their bags in the stone town
shops both collectively and individually. To date in group they produced a total of 132
handcraft bags and sold 93 of them earning approximately Tsh.1, 674,000 only
collectively.
To date a total of 2,935 VSL women are engaged in petty trading and 2,080 engaged in market
driven income generating activities involving both horticulture and permaculture. The
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illustrations of VSL women engage in income generating activities are shown in the following
info-graph.
WEZA II in cooperation with Market and Business Committees is currently supporting women
producers to open up their own marketing centers and therefore having a full control of the
market. The project started the construction of six business centers/shops from Unguja and
Pemba involving soap making industry at Bambi, Permaculture center at Matemwe, poultry
centers at Makunduchi and Mkokotoni, vegetable demonstration plot at Mtende, handcrafts shop
at Mvumoni and sunflower industry at Mbuzini.
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Construction of sunflower industry continues at Mbuzini, Mavungwa (left) with a picture taken on 10/12/1017 and
soap making industry at Bambi (right) picture taken on 23/12/2017.
In the picture left and right are the women groups at Matemwe helps in the construction of water
reserver for their envisioned flowering nursery as taken by TAMWA Staff on 20/12/2017
The case of Matemwe
About 20 VSL women from four groups in Matemwe are motivated and jointly engaged in
producing handcraft products and soap making. The women come from Mwanzo Mgumu,
Tujali na Sisi Watu, Mnyonge Mjali and Tunatumaini Kupata VSL groups amid a series of
capacity building trainings. Recently they still sell their products more to the community
members earning Tsh 500,000/= per member in total.
The groups currently establish a center for organic farming. The farming will involve
production of organic fertilizer, vegetable and garden/nursery. They spotted a plot in their
community and collectively lobbied the authority to give it to them and full fill their
entrepreneurial goal. They have secured the compound from the Local Government
Authority and they are now looking for the title-deed. On the other hand, they have started
the initial procedure for the establishment of the center with the construction of the water
reservoir in partnership with WEZA II.
These women have an ambition of establishing a market center where they will invite other
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VSL members in North and South to sell their products.
In addition a total of more nine poultry hubs were repaired including in Mkokotoni, Mihogoni,
Chimba, Kendwa, Makunduchi, Shumba Vyamboni, Mlindo, Ukunjwi and Kilindi. Around eight
heavy duty sewing machines were distributed to producers at Nganani, Cheju, Chwaka,
Fukuchani for Unguja, and Kendwa, Kiuyu Minungwini, Furaha and Tumbe for Pemba.
Women producers were supported in product packaging, branding and labeling and link them to
potential and reliable market points. A total of 46 in-island markets including nine mainstream
market including Shimoni, Kinyasini, Makunduchi, Mwanakwerekwe and Darajani for Unguja
and Wete, Chakechake, Pemba Airpot and Tibirinzi for Pemba; five hotels such as Lamadrugada
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Hotel at Makunduchi, Kitete Hotel from Paje, and 11 shops in Stone Town for Unguja and
Chake Chake and Wete for Pemba were reached and accessed by VSL women.
In the picture at left are the women producers in Kendwa displaying their products including
seaweed related food stuffs as visited by WEZA II team on 2, November, 2017. In the right are
some new designs of palm leaves bags made by VSL members as taken by TAMWA Staff on
Jan 5, 2018 at Kendwa Pemba.
The case of Kendwa
Nia Njema group allocated in Kendwa, South Pemba is consisted of 15 VSL
women who are engaged in making handcraft products, soap and food stuffs.
The main market accessed by the women involving in Unguja, schools,
offices, Festival (Sabasaba) and exporting to Oman. Their accumulated
earning has reached Tsh. 1,793,500/=
The women are in the final process of registering their groups as Cooperative
Society before seeking registration to other Government Agencies such as
ZBFD, ZBS and Chief Government Chemist.
About eight markets were also obtained at Tanzania Mainland including from Mbagala, Tabata,
Kigamboni, Kinondoni, JKT, Kariakoo, Mabibo and Magomeni. About five VSL groups
specifically from Pemba are selling their handcraft products in Muscat Oman. A total of 62
women were also supported to attend business exhibitions held within and outside the country.
This included two women participated in Jua kali Exhibition at Burundi, seven women in
Kizimbani Exhibitions, six entrepreneurs in Mwenge Exhibition at Amani stadium and Pongwe,
seven entrepreneurship exhibition at Nungwi, four women in Milele Exhibition at old House of
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Representative-Kikwajuni, four in Women exhibition at Zanzibar Ocean View Hotel, four in
TGNP Festival at Dar es salaam and 28 in Women Exhibtion at Jambiani.
VSL women participated in in Jua Kali Exhibition in Burundi as shown in the picture left taken on 07/12/2017. In
the right are some tourists watching the cowboy game who carried bags made by women producers at Mjini Ole,
Pemba as taken by Haji Nassor of Zanzibar Leo newspaper on 03/01/2018.
WEZA II also created awareness to women access and control of land. A total of 27 land
awareness campaigns in accumulation were conducted (11 in 2016 and 16 for 2017). To date a
total of 32 women (four from Pemba and 28 from Unguja) process their land tittle deeds at
district offices; South, Central and North A waiting to be linked to Commission for Land.
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About 14 forms have been submitted to the Commission for land and other 14 have been linked
to Wakf’s Commission in Pemba. To date a total of six (five from Unguja and one from Pemba)
got entitled their land occupancy documents by the Commission for Land.
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Outcome 3: 280 women groups including girls are collectively engaged with media,
networks to challenge barriers and practices that are detrimental to women’s economic
rights.
WEZA II engaged largely in both mainstream and social media in the realization of women’s
social, legal and economic rights, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uqlFo91zuHA&t=10s
Interventions included media visits and press release, TV and Radio programs, newspaper for
mainstream media and YouTube Channels, Facebook and Twitter for social media. A total of
three press releases were made and distributed to various media houses on economic
empowerment, land rights and Gender Based Violence (GBV). As such some 28 stories were
published. Access the Zaima TV report through https://youtu.be/eAA-1y2JQ9Y. To date a total
of 21 GBV claims have been won verdicts involving the mentioned one from Kiungoni Pemba
where the culprit was sentenced five years jail imprison on one count.
The Kiungoni case
In Kiungoni, Pemba a step farther; Hamad Omar Hamad raped his three children aged 11,
14 and 16. The TAMWA, news gatherer reported the incident to TAMWA Coordinator in
Pemba and journalistic investigation was conducted early October. It was found out that
the 16 years old girl was pregnant. Amid the explosion of the news to journalists and later
police, the father fled the country and eluded the police force. This was when the story and
engagement to the police was enhanced. Firstly, the office intended to trace the perpetrator
and secondly to take him back to Pemba to face the wrath of the law. It was later
discovered that he fled to Unguja, the sister island and the office in collaboration with
journalists and police managed to trace him in Unguja leading to his arrest. He was
sentenced on December to five years imprisonment for the 11 year’s girl case, and the
remaining two are still proceedings.
The case stands yet as another testimony of the importance of media advocacy,
engagement of the law enforcement agencies and more important local activists. It is also a
victory on the women movement which for years cried foul and delays of GBV cases run
up to five years prompting out of courts settlements.
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Therefore around 16 media houses covered the story while Zanzibar Leo and Nipashe
extended the story to editorial and feature respectively. Other media are ZBC Radio and
television, Tiff TV, star TV, Zanzibar Cable Television, Hits FM, zenj FM, Swahiba FM,
Chuchu FM news and program, Zanzibar Leo newspaper, Star TV, Deuch Welle, Nipashe,
Habari Leo, Mwananchi, Daily news and social media particularly what up and you tube;
https://youtu.be/eAA-1y2JQ9Y and https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZmwkFGIbOkl
Outcome 4: Grassroots women’s empowerment efforts effectively supported by 40 local
and national institutions
A bond involving WEZA II/TAMWA Zanzibar, VSL women and local and national institutions
has been strengthened. The Institutions are strongly engaged so that they can VSL producers to
access skills and knowledge, capital, market and business formalities. These institutions
involving Practical Permaculture Institute Zanzibar (PPIZ), Tanzania Horticultural Association
(TAHA) Incubator; UMI Bank and EQUITY Bank, Ministry of Trade and Ministry of Finance,
In GBV there are Action Aid, Zanzibar Female Lawyers Association (ZAFELA), Zanzibar Legal
Service Center (ZLSC), SOS, Zanzibar Gender Coalition (ZGC), Umoja wa Walemavu Zanzibar
(UWZ), Umoja wa Wanawake wenye Ulemavu Zanzibar (UWAUZA), Association of NGO’s in
Zanzibar (ANGOZA), Union for Youth in Fighting Against GBV (JUVIKUKA), Union for
Women Development in North, Unguja central land network, Unguja central District
Commission and Pemba south District Commission.
Monitoring and Evaluation
In monitoring project progress WEZA II team organized field visits on regular basis, quarterly
meetings with business committees, clusters meetings and CRPs to facilitate data collection
process, reporting and sharing experiences and challenges. It was from these visits where
progress and challenges were tracked paving ways for the way forward.
Challenges
• Some women producers face limited access to market due to patriarchy norms and
substandard qualities.
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• There were delays in construction of the offices especially in Bambi due to politicians un
fulfilled promises.
• Perpetrators of GBV are given trivial sentences as primary and regional courts were
given limited jurisdictions of up to seven years imprisonment. To make it worse,
perpetrators are awarded pardons by the High Court shortly after their imprisonment.
Patriarchy system is still high manifested on the trivial sentences and also backlashes of
the Kadhi’s court especially on women Kadhis request.
• Land access to women is still a problem due to substantial patriarchy system, inadequate
knowledge to women and bureaucracy.
Ways Forward
• Strengthen VSL products to meet the market requirements.
• Support VSL producers in formalizing their business activities.