Apr 3, 2009

PROJECT REQUIRES SUPPORT

PROJECT DESCRIPTIONS 1. TITLE OF PROJECT: IMPROVING ACCESS TO INFORMATION TO DISABLED PEOPLE OF MBEYA CITY- TANZANIA 2. NAME OF APPLICANT, TANZANIA DISABLED ISSUES JOURNALISTS, Contact person: Mr. Deo Kiduduye P.O. BOX. MBEYA TANZANIA. e-mail: dkiduduye@ymail.com
or.
Mr DANNY TWEVE
P.o.box 648
Mbozi
TEL:+255784606322
or
TADIJO
BOX 308
MBEYA
E.Mail:tadijotz@yahoo.com 3a . Overall objective of the project. To improve access to information among the disabled so as to enable them to fully participate in the comming election 2010. 3b. Duration of the project. Three years 2009-2011 4. Total amount requested (Euros) EURO 19,970 5. Brief summary of the project: The project improving access to information of the disabled people of Mbeya region Tanzania aim to improve access to information among the disabled of Mbeya city so a to enable them participate fully in the democratic and development process of the country, the project will work with 70(55fe) disabled from various areas within the city. Again this is a unique project focusing on the comming election for the disabled people whom in experiences and data available, found not much focused(neglected) because of either environmental set up during election process, no awareness programs directed to this group, No resources for people with disability prepared to make them able to vote(wheel chairs, sighting support,brailers, etc).
The project will be implemented by identified groups of disabled people who are within the city, and it will be implemented in partnership with the government and the church organization in the area.
The project commence in 2009 and it will end in December 2011. The total budget of the project is EURO 9,970 whereby EURO 9,600 is contribution from various like minded organisation, EURO 370 will be contribution from implementing partners of the project.
The project aims at enhancing and facilitatePeople with disability o partcipate in comming election through imparting knowledge, sensitizing and awareness raising to this group on the importnance of participating in election, again lobbying and advocacy on smooth environment for disabled people to partcipate in election exercise. 6. Short description of applicant, organization. Youth build future limited is a non profit company registered under the company ordinance (cap. 212) as a company by guarantee not having share capital. It was established in 2000 in Mbeya region Tanzania. The major objective is to help the youth and disabled people to participate in development process and engage in economic activities so as to improve their incomes hence reduce poverty. The organization is a membership based having members from different social groups some of them being disabled people. The organization since 2000 has been involved in a number of activities involving youth in Mbeya region. Among other things the organization has been involved in facilitating youth in areas such as promoting them to participate in development process through project formulation and implementation, facilitation of information sharing between different development actors and to act as effective partner of the government in fighting HIV/AIDS pandemic especially to youth. 8. Involvement of co-operating partiers in the project. The planning, implementation and monitoring and evaluation of the project will involved different development actors who in one way or another are crucial in the development process of disabled people. Different actors included the government through the district community development department, the people from the media, church organizations, and the disabled groups. The actors’ roles have been agreed and stipulated to each of them throughout the project cycle. For instance the government role is to provide technical staff for training; the church organizations will provide information and other resources concerning disabled while the disabled groups will be the implementers of the project however all actors will be involved in monitoring and evaluation of the project to ensure the anticipated impact is reached. 9. How are disabled women involved in decision making? The major beneficiaries of the project will be disabled women, who were involved in the planning process by using a participatory planning tool called O&OD (opportunities and obstacles for development). This target group will also be involved in the monitoring the implementation of the project through participatory impact monitoring. 10. Beneficiaries of the project The beneficiaries of this project are the disabled people especially those with physical inability, the community at large, women and youth. 11. Background of the project, problems we are addressing. Tanzania like other developing countries has been facing the stigmatization and unreliable system or unfavorable environment to disabled people in receiving information and voicing out their views. It is estimated that 3.7 Milion disabled people in Tanzania do not have access to information because they have been marginalized and stigmatized by their families and the community at large. This is due to the fact and data available that in 6 daily news papers circulating all over the country, 5 Tv stations, aired 24 hours and more than 35 Radio Fm and AM radio station, there is only one Radio station or no station which has provided at least 20% of its news or coverage on Disabilities issues. This means that the populations of disabilities which constitute 2 % of all Tanzanian have only 0.1 percent of news to be covered in Medias compared to the total number of them. General Information being the fore front and foremost importance and core area for human survival and development lack of access to information has been a major obstacle for disabled people to get known, listened and present their feelings leading to poor participation in development process hence remaining marginalized and poor. 12a. Long term objective of the project. To contribute towards increased income and participation in the development process of the disabled people of Mbeya city by the year 2009. 12b. Immediate/short term objectives. Information availability concerning election process to the disabled will be increased Disabled information dissemination system will be improved
  • I ncome and control of resources to disabled people increased. Activities 1.0. INFORMATION AVAILABILITY CONCERNING ELECTION PROCESS TO THE DISABLED IMPROVED.
  • Conduct research of information type and issues concerning disabled
  • Develop campaign message for disabled people to participate in election.
  • Printing and dissemination /distribution of messages.
  • Establish pro- disabled newspaperPurchase equipments
  • Recruit and train journalist on disabled newspaper preparation
  • Register the news paper 2.0. APPROPRIATE INFORMATION DISSEMINATION SYSTEM ESTABLISHED
  • Establish disabled information resource centre.
  • Distribute news paper to disabled 3.0. INCOME LEVELS AND CONTROL OF RESOURCES OF DISABLED INCREASED.
  • Conduct trainings to disabled on income generating activities .
  • Create awareness to the community on outdated cultures that discriminate disabled
  • Conduct follow ups ACTIVITIES AND TIME FRAME 1.0. INFORMATION AVAILABILITY TO THE DISABLED IMPROVED.
  • Conduct research of information type and issues concerning disabled Mbeya March –June 2009
  • Develop campaigning message concerning disabled people to participate in election process.(July 2009 , May 2010).
  • duistribute messages. (July 2009 to August 2010)
  • Establish pro- disabled newspaper(August 2009)
  • Hire newspaper office, hire staff and purchase facilities(August,2009)
  • Register the news paper(Oct, 2009) 2.0. APPROPRIATE INFORMATION DISSEMINATION SYSTEM ESTABLISHED
  • Construction of Disabled Information center( Sept, 2009)
  • Facilitate working of resource centre(Jan-August 2010
  • Distribute news paper to disabled(Jan-Dec 2010)
  • Bring news papers to the resource centre(Jan -Dec 2010) 3.0. INCOME LEVELS AND CONTROL OF RESOURCES OF DISABLED INCREASED.
  • Conduct trainings to disabled on income generating activities
  • Conduct workshops, exchange visit
  • Create awareness to the community on outdated cultures that discriminate disabled
  • Through meetings, discussions using media
  • Conduct follow ups
  • Supervision and Reporting From this project proposal, TADIJO is looking for partner organisation to finance these activities, this can be either one objective or all. We invite indivuals, organisation to donate fund so as to ensure thes eobjectives are properly imlemented.
  • OUR ACCOUNT NUMBER IS 01J2065637500 CRDB BANK-TANZANIA.

TADIJO HAS A BOARD OF TRUSTEES TO ENSURE FUNDS MONITORING AND PROPER ACCOUNTING

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