Project
Maslahi yetu Kwanza (Our Interest first) Phase 1
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Amount Funded
24,990 EUROProject Duration
01 Oct 2019 - 30 Sep 2020 -
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Lead organisation
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Integrating Capacity and Community Advancement Organization (ICCAO) is a youth led organisation founded by vibrant young women who were inspired and motivated by the potential of the young people with the interest in contributing in national development. As a youth led organisation, ICCAO has been designing various voluntary programmes with the fellow youth to support the most marginalised youth who need support in terms of knowledge, access or linkage. ICCAO managed to establish youth platforms at the beginning of 2019. They started a platform called Kijiwe kipya platform where youth meet and discuss various issues specifically related to financial matters.
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Organisation
Integrating Capacity and Community Advancement Organization (ICCAO) is a youth led organisation founded by vibrant young women who were inspired and motivated by the potential of the young people with the interest in contributing in national development. As a youth led organisation, ICCAO has been designing various voluntary programmes with the fellow youth to support the most marginalised youth who need support in terms of knowledge, access or linkage. ICCAO managed to establish youth platforms at the beginning of 2019. They started a platform called Kijiwe kipya platform where youth meet and discuss various issues specifically related to financial matters.
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Project
The project Maslahi yetu Kwanza, loosely translated in English as ‘First, our interests’ empowers young Tanzanians in Dar es Salaam to tackle the lack of understanding of youth in the importance of having good leaders in governance and representatives that can speak for the youth interests, issues and challenges through strategic leadership, civic participation, and personal leadership.
The project looks at supporting youth through platforms such as the youth in bodaboda (bicycle) associations and the youth in universities, where the youth involved are often used in political campaigns. The project also facilitates interaction among existing youth groups and the youth representatives in local government authorities. To amplify the inclusive youth leadership dialogue and campaign, the project works closely with media personnel especially in radio and TV with youth grassroots group’s stories on civic engagement and leadership in order to raise public awareness.
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The project Maslahi yetu Kwanza, loosely translated in English as ‘First, our interests’ empowers young Tanzanians in Dar es Salaam to tackle the lack of understanding of youth in the importance of having good leaders in governance and representatives that can speak for the youth interests, issues and challenges through strategic leadership, civic participation, and personal leadership.
The project looks at supporting youth through platforms such as the youth in bodaboda (bicycle) associations and the youth in universities, where the youth involved are often used in political campaigns. The project also facilitates interaction among existing youth groups and the youth representatives in local government authorities. To amplify the inclusive youth leadership dialogue and campaign, the project works closely with media personnel especially in radio and TV with youth grassroots group’s stories on civic engagement and leadership in order to raise public awareness.
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“Our Interests, Our Voice” quote encompasses the objective of ICCAO to push for the empowerment of the youth in Tanzania. Our Interests, our voice was used as a hashtag by ICCAO in September 2020, during the Tanzanian general election campaigns in 2020. The hashtag was intended to unite and stimulate conversation about the upcoming election, focusing on selecting policymakers who would represent the interests of Tanzanian youth.
In the 2020 general elections, ICCAO supported a rightsholder in Iringa who contested the elections and was successfully elected as a Member of Parliament. During the 12-month ICCAO operated in the Iringa region, reaching 8,958 rightsholders and 15 youth groups were given entrepreneurship and leadership training. The youth groups also received support to create income-generating activities; after 12-months, two groups had begun their own businesses. ICCAO also supported the formation of another youth group that started online campaigns on issues that affect the youth, such as the environment, leadership, and other social-political challenges the youth face in Tanzania.
In the future, the ICCAO is looking to expand their work by empowering and building confidence amongst the youth to hold policymakers who were selected in the general elections in 2020 accountable to the campaign promises they made to the youth.
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