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The meeting was attended by over 30 Social welfare officers; 19 were female and 11 were male from the following councils;
1. Njombe DC
2. Magu DC
3. Iringa DC
4. Mbeya DC
5. Mbarali DC
6. Kigoma DC
7. Temeke DC
8. Kigamboni DC
9. Njombe TC
10. Kakonko DC
11. Kasulu TC
12. Njombe DC
13. Kibondo DC
14. Kigoma MC
15. Uvinza DC
16. Mbozi DC
17. Momba DC
18. Ileje DC
19. Kasulu DC
20. Iringa MC
21. Buhigwe DC
22. Songwe DC
23. Makete DC
24. Makambako TC
25. Hai DC
26. Ubungo MC
27. Mbeya CC
28. Mufindi DC
29. Kilolo DC
30. Mafinga TC
31. Chunya DC
The main facilitators of the meeting were PO-RALG who were represented by 2 officials; Ms. Zainabu Kitembe, and Ms. Nkinda Shekalaghe (Senior Social Welfare Officers at the Department of Social Welfare, Health and Nutrition).
From the ministries, MoHCDGEC was represented by 2 officials. Ms. Vivian Kaiza, Senior Social Welfare Officer at the Department of Social Welfare and Ms. Anna Mhina, a Senior Community Development Officer at the Department of Child Development.
Greetings from UNICEF representative. UNICEF was represented by Mr. Mbelwa Gabagambi. In his remarks he was happy that all invited councils were present and that was a very good indicator for a successful meeting. He further said that the training has come at a good time because this time is when we need to improve platforms that children can use to report VAC incidents.
He also said that Social welfare officers need to be very innovative since most child protection interventions at council level always get very minimal funding. He said that if we advocate and show the importance of child helplines and child protection interventions it will help achieving the key results in council plans in 2019/2020 financial year and inform the planning for 2021/2022 financial year.
“Child helpline is a key component in the child protection system and mainstreaming child helpline in our ongoing respective council interventions is very important. This will help to provide children with opportunities to report and improve their safeguard. Please go back and involve the women and children protection committees in planning and always use innovative action. Much greetings from UNICEF child Protection section Team and the Chief of Child Protection Section.” - Mbelwa
Key Outcome (s) of the meeting
This story was compiled by the Child Helpline team in Dar es salaam.