Program Overview
TAMWA Zanzibar aims to drive legal and policy reforms to strengthen gender rights protection and improve GBV/VAWC response mechanisms. The program focuses on aligning national laws and policies with international gender rights standards, enhancing enforcement mechanisms, and ensuring effective legal responses to gender-based violence. By advocating for systemic legal changes and strengthening institutional frameworks, the program seeks to create a more just and equitable society where women, girls, and other vulnerable groups can pursue their rights through formal justice mechanisms.
Objective
The primary objective is to achieve comprehensive legal reforms and improve GBV/VAWC response mechanisms to ensure the protection and empowerment of women and vulnerable groups. This includes harmonizing laws and policies with international standards, strengthening referral mechanisms, and promoting legal aid services to enhance access to justice. Additionally, the program seeks to sustain previous legal reforms and contribute to the national agenda for gender equality and human rights protection.
Context:
Media advocacy remains a key strategy, building journalists' capacity and leveraging the GBV network in Unguja and Pemba to raise awareness, monitor cases, and facilitate justice for survivors. TAMWA Zanzibar integrates advocacy, research, and strategic partnerships to drive legal and policy reforms while strengthening GBV/VAWC response mechanisms. The organization develops an advocacy framework linking legal reforms with community interventions, forms coalitions with CSOs and media platforms, and conducts data-driven research to support policy changes.
Approaches & Strategies
To achieve this, the program adopts a three-pronged approach:
• Capacity Building: Providing leadership training, mentorship, and skills development to empower women to engage effectively in governance and climate adaptation initiatives.
Existence of a peaceful Tanzania society, which respects human rights with gender perspective.
Program Overview
TAMWA Zanzibar aims to drive legal and policy reforms to strengthen gender rights protection and improve GBV/VAWC response mechanisms. The program focuses on aligning national laws and policies with international gender rights standards, enhancing enforcement mechanisms, and ensuring effective legal responses to gender-based violence. By advocating for systemic legal changes and strengthening institutional frameworks, the program seeks to create a more just and equitable society where women, girls, and other vulnerable groups can pursue their rights through formal justice mechanisms.
Objective
The primary objective is to achieve comprehensive legal reforms and improve GBV/VAWC response mechanisms to ensure the protection and empowerment of women and vulnerable groups. This includes harmonizing laws and policies with international standards, strengthening referral mechanisms, and promoting legal aid services to enhance access to justice. Additionally, the program seeks to sustain previous legal reforms and contribute to the national agenda for gender equality and human rights protection.
Context:
Media advocacy remains a key strategy, building journalists' capacity and leveraging the GBV network in Unguja and Pemba to raise awareness, monitor cases, and facilitate justice for survivors. TAMWA Zanzibar integrates advocacy, research, and strategic partnerships to drive legal and policy reforms while strengthening GBV/VAWC response mechanisms. The organization develops an advocacy framework linking legal reforms with community interventions, forms coalitions with CSOs and media platforms, and conducts data-driven research to support policy changes.
Approaches & Strategies
To achieve this, the program adopts a three-pronged approach:
• Capacity Building: Providing leadership training, mentorship, and skills development to empower women to engage effectively in governance and climate adaptation initiatives.
