Safeguard Young People (SYP) - Tanzania

Primary: Adolescents and young people 10-24 years old

Secondary: Agents of change and community gatekeepers such as policymakers, teachers, health service providers, religious and local traditional leaders, parents and guardians, media, and youth leaders.

1. Create an enabling environment: Improved inclusive policies, legislation and accountability mechanisms for the promotion and protection of adolescents and young people’s rights at national and sub-national levels with a focus on sexual and reproductive health rights.
2. Strengthen demand: Adolescents and young people have utilized knowledge, skills, and agency to make informed decisions and positive actions about their bodies, their lives and their world.
3. Strengthen supply: Increased equitable access to quality SRHR, Gender-Based Violence (GBV) and HIV integrated services, which are gender-responsive, inclusive and adolescents and youth friendly.

Risultati principali attesi:  

• Strengthen capacity of sub/national institutions to advocate for conducive policy environment that promotes the rights and choice of young people
• Strengthen capacity of youth to meaningfully participate in decision making platforms
• Enhance knowledge and skills of young people in and out of schools to negotiate on SRHR information and services
• Improve knowledge, attitudes, and skills of communities to promote positive gender and social norms in support of adolescent SRHR
• Strengthen systems that respond to, expand and deliver information and services to young people

Risultati fasi precedenti:  

• 9 national policy instruments developed /updated (e.g., on youth development, life skills education, and male engagement)
• Comprehensive sexuality education (CSE) was integrated in all 54 folk development colleges’ curricula (annual reach: ~18’000 learners) with 216 education practitioners capacitated
• 937 young people from 61 groups and 120 organisations trained on advocacy, leadership and entrepreneurship skills, with 90 integrated in decision making/ leadership positions and 519 supported with USD 153’000 in government loans
• 211’253 out-of-school and 237’400 in-school young people reached with SRHR information (through 290 trained peers, multi-media campaigns etc.)
• 921’169 young people accessed standard package of youth-friendly SRHR services through 225 trained providers
• 6 district-level health care centres refurbished to provide youth-friendly services
• Regionally, partnerships with the African Union Commission, Southern Africa Development Community (SADC), and the East African Community (EAC), contributed to progress towards the Eastern and Southern Africa (ESA) Ministerial Commitment on CSE, SRHR and HIV for Young People.