INSIDE1. Principal’s Note

2. About the late David Makala

3. ACSC Director Appointment4. AAI International Director visit

5. New Social Activities

6. MS TCDC at Kili Marathon

7. Women’s Day

8. Mama Hokororo Presentation

9. SNV Project

Newsletter

Principal’s Note

As the principal of MS TCDC I’d like to welcome you to a new edition of our newsletter. MS TCDC has decided to open the virtual doors and share our goals, events and happenings with you in this new line of newsletter. We here at the center have had quite a busy last few months. A lot has happened: we took part in the international women’s day march in Arusha, we had to say goodbye to our dear colleague David Makala, Kumi Naidoo was appointed as director of the African Civil Society and we hosted many interesting events here at MS TCDC. Take a read and follow up on MS TCDC newshere at MS TCDC. Take a read and follow up on MS TCDC news

RegardsDr. Suma Kaare

DR. SUMA KAARE

About The Late David Makala

LATE DAVID MAKALA

David Makala was one of our associate trainers who has worked with MS TCDC in a number of years and in several assignments and short courses here

at MS TCDC such as: Project Planning and Management

Courses; Monitoring and Evaluation Courses; RResults Based Management Courses; Outcome Mapping Courses; and

LRP Toolbox for Action course to mention a few.

One of the recent assignment he did with MS TCDC was in the LRP Toolbox for Action Course where he took part in the curriculum design together with MS TCDC and SO2 Project 1 team members that

ttook place at MS TCDC. He was also co-facilitating in the LRP Toolbox for Action training that was

conducted in MS TCDC and Dar es Salaam last year.

David Makala was exible and always ready to take up challenging assignments with ease.

He will be remembered for his wealth of experience in development work and particularly

in the elds of in the elds of Policy Advocacy, Child Rights, Gender, Project Management and M&E.

We will remember him. We pray for comfort and peace to his wife and children.

“We will remember him. We pray for comfort

and peace to his wife and children.”

ACSC Director

AppointmentThe internationally respected civil rights ambassador Kumi Naidoo was announced to be the rst director of the new African Civil Society Center here at MS TCDC. We are happy to work side by side with this inspiring leader. Kumi Naidoo has a long history of activism and leadership for international organizations including GGreenpeace, CIVICUS and the Global Call to Action Against Poverty. Kumi visions his work at the center as the following “This new centre is inspired by a vision of a democratic, equitable, sustainable and transformative change in Africa in which popular struggles against pstruggles against poverty and injustice shift the balance of power and attain respect for human rights for all. It is a vision that I am committed to helping achieve.”

“This new centre is inspired by a vision of a democratic, equitable, sustainable and transformative change in Africa in which popular struggles

against poverty and injustice shift the balance of power and attain respect for human rights for all. It is a vision that

I am committed to helping achieve.”

KUMI NAIDOO

AAI International Director visit

In March we were lucky to welcome Mr. Jacob, who is the international director of Action Aid Denmark. Jacob said about MS TCDC: “It was good to be able to spend

longer time with TCDC and I feel I return with a better understanding of TCDC, what you do and the challenges and opportunities. I am also happy that I got to

spend some more time with you and other staff.

MS TCDC is rst of all capacity building and educational center that aims to give our students and course participants the ultimate learning experience. At the same time we are aware that a lot of learning does happen outside the class room, sometimes during tea time, when heated discussions take place. Other times during dinner when cross cultural knowledge is shared between our international visitors, having that in mind we initiated hosting a variety of events at MS TCDC, to create a holistic learning experience. In March we had different events, especially especially focusing on women. Among many different exciting guest’s we invited Helene Regnell an expert in Corporate Social Responsibility from Denmark. Her presentation did spur an impassioned discussion amongst the audience and displayed many interesting opinions and ideas by the audience.

New Social Activities

Kilimarathon in the end of February was a great event held in Moshi. As the Kilimanjaro Mountain showed off all its glory, sweaty runners from all generations and over 44 countries reached the nish line. MS TCDC joined up with its runners from our staff, studestudents and of course many supporters. The event gave MS TCDC a visibility in Moshi town and also a chance to share our offerings with runners,suppoters from differend countries who attended Kilimarathon. Remember when you come to MS TCDC WWe will run the change making Marathon with you!

“Remember when you come to MS TCDC we’ll run that educational Marathon with you!”

MS TCDC at

Kilimarathon

March was all Women’s month at MS TCDC. We hosted many women events, but one of the absolute highlights was the participation of MS TCDC women in the International Women’s Day on 8th of March. We joined women from many other organizations, all with stunning and colorful vitenge in the women’s march in Arusha town. We walked all the way to the Mount Meru hospital. At the destination, bed sheets, water and Vaseline were handed to the hospital as a token from the Raawu Arusha to support the hospital and its patients. The power and energy of the women was vibrant and intensively present at all time.

“The power and energy of the women was vibrant and intensively present at all time. ”

Women’s Day

More inspiring women…At another event we had the pleasure to listen to the inspiring female local entrepreneur, Mama Hokororo. She talked about being a female entrepreneur in Tanzania and how hard it was to start from the bottom. Her words left an i intense impression on the audience, especially when talking about how Tanzanians should support local producers to save them from being pushed from their own domestic market and also to spur the national economic growth. Mama Hokororo also told us about her encouraging plan to soon open training facilities for young wwomen who want to learn the amazing handcrafts that she makes.

“How hard it was to start from the bottom.”

MamaHokororoPresentation

At MS TCDC we have a lot projects happening outside of ourcampus. One of them is the Gender equality project in collaboration with SNV which focuses on the empowerment of women in the rice value chain. We had the great opportunity to talk to Joyce and Prisca about they work they do for MS TCDC in the eld.TThe following is a short extract of the interview we conducted with them:

Q.: What are the objectives of the project?A.: Our main objective is the empowerment of women in small-holder rice farmer’s value chain. We want women to challenge inequality as change agent for social change, social and economic change. Also we want the women to conduct an analysis of policy. They should know the weaknesses in the policies challenge, criticize, lobby and advocate for policy changes.

Q.: What are the main challenges you are confronted with?A.: The main challenge is that it is a long process, it is nothing that just happens at night. In some communities there are restriction. So when we are raising the awareness sometimes the men don’t know what they should think about our project so that participation in the meetings is low because the women are not allowed to come. We try to convince the men to let their wives participate. There are still this very strong cultural norms and belief discriminating women, in favor of men eeconomically, socially, so that’s a big challenging for us, but in our part we have our contribution in that. That’s why we have strategized our efforts in focusing the local leaders, who are very inuential in changing the discussion and at least slowly things will be changing. We are not hoping for a big big change. Our idea is that after the project there should be a base, a benchmark, at least some awareness of the gender inequality.

SNV PROJECT

- We are aware of that 3 years not a lot of big things will happen, so that’s why we want them to own the process, we are working to raise awareness, but for them to own the process so even if we are gone, when we are gone they will continue with the process. Besides the context the infrastructure in these areas is very poor, it is very challenging,even more now in the raining season. It is hard, we try to go at any time we can.

“When we are gone they will continue with the process”

Q.: How do you convince the men?A.: First of all we don’t go directly to the men. We target the youth artistic groups, when they understand us, when men show up when we call for the workshop we don’t tell them how to treat women. We rather use storytelling. We ask the artistic group to act out the situation in the village. So when we start that way, the people are more open and people come up to us. AAlso we also have community volunteers, they know what we do, so we started working with them rst. For them it is easier to listen, and tell the people in the village. For these processes we had some positive results, rather than going directly. You know people have their own things in minds; maybe women shouldn’t do it this or that, but when they see the drama, songs, poems and the people of the village talking to them it can change their mind. We have often targeted the religious leaders the people that are inuential. They respect, so people listen to them if we convinces them people will be mo be more likely to listen to the message.

SNVPROJECTCONTINUED

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