Actions in Tanzânia

  • Pensions

    Social Protection

    Assessment of School Feeding Programme for pre-primary and primary school in Zanzibar

    Southern Africa Tanzania
    Start activities
    15/10/2020
    End activities
    15/12/2020
    Partner Institution
    President’s Office, Regional Administration, Local Government and Special Departments (PORALGSD)
    Type of Assistance
    Organisational capacity building
    Code
    2020-19
    Description
    The Action served the purpose of assessing the state of the art and actual institutional arrangements involved in the implementation of the Zanzibar School Feeding Programme (SFP), providing fresh meals to all Zanzibar’s pre-primary public schools. A situation analysis was carried out by experts from Bulgaria and Italy who focused on three key aspects: the optimal capitation grants to adequately cover the SFP’s operational costs; the current school feeding supply chain, as well as the administrative and organizational arrangements in place; and the identification of operational bottlenecks to the efficient running of the SFP. The report shall be of use for the institution – namely the Ministry of Education of the Government of Zanzibar - that will be in charge of running the SFP.

  • Social Protection

    Enhancing rehabilitation capacities of Workers Compensation Fund

    Southern Africa Tanzania
    Start activities
    23/11/2020
    End activities
    26/03/2021
    Partner Institution
    Workers Compensation Fund (WCF)
    Type of Assistance
    Individual capacity building (human resources development)
    Code
    2020-07
    Description
    The Workers Compensation Fund (WCF) of Tanzania leads the Occupational Health and Safety (OSH) insurance branch. It requested SOCIEUX+ to enhance its internal capacities to deal with rehabilitation of workers affected by work-related injuries and/or sickness. In the course of four training activities experts mobilized by the German Association of Accident Insurance (DGUV) provided to WCF staff an introduction on rehabilitation management, tackled procedures case managers have to deploy, and strengthened WCF and its partners’ knowledge in the field of labour medicine. The four training activities involved WCF technical and administrative staff as well as staff from collaborative medical facilities and touched up several OSH-related areas such as legislative framework, case management, medical notions, communication to right-holders. The activities progressively identified gaps and proposed recommendations for further action.

  • Social Protection

    Development of a Strategic Plan for the ECASSA Institute of Social Protection (EISP)

    Southern Africa Tanzania
    Start activities
    01/09/2020
    End activities
    31/10/2020
    Partner Institution
    East and Central Africa Social Security Association (ECASSA) Institute of Social Protection (EISP)
    Type of Assistance
    Organisational capacity building
    Code
    2020-05

  • Social Protection

    Organisational capacity building on Management Information Systems

    Southern Africa Tanzania
    Start activities
    01/10/2020
    End activities
    24/12/2020
    Partner Institution
    East and Central Africa Social Security Association (ECASSA) Institute of Social Protection (EISP)
    Type of Assistance
    Organisational capacity building
    Code
    2020-03

  • Social Protection

    Technical support on rehabilitation services and capacity building

    Southern Africa Tanzania
    Start activities
    01/09/2020
    End activities
    09/04/2021
    Partner Institution
    Workers Compensation Fund (WCF)
    Type of Assistance
    Policy development
    Code
    2019-35
    Description
    The Workers Compensation Fund (WCF) of Tanzania asked SOCIEUX+ to help looking into its own rehabilitation strategy, in the perspective of addressing gaps and plan improvements thanks to inspirational exchanges with EU peer experts. Experts from Germany (the German Association of Accident Insurance – DGUV) and Lithuania first overviewed the existing WCF’s rehabilitation strategies, then provided technical advice for its improvement; they particularly stressed the importance to conceive rehabilitation work in relation to the three distinct dimensions physical, social, and vocational rehabilitation, all important for allowing injured works to go back to active professional life.

  • Social Protection

    Capacity building of ECASSA’s members

    Southern Africa TANZANIA
    Start activities
    18-03-2019
    End activities
    22-03-2019
    Partner Institution
    East and Central Africa Social Security Association (ECASSA)
    Type of Assistance
    Individual capacity building (human resources development)
    Code
    2018-30
    Description
    The East and Central Africa Social Security Association (ECASSA) brings together social security entities in the African subregion. Through its partnership with SOCIEUX+, it aimed to deploy a set of training modules intended to upgrade the skills and competences available to staffs of the constituent organizations, on a number of relevant managerial and topic-related themes. A single training on “Human Resource Management for Non-Human Resource Managers” was delivered by experts from Belgium, with the participation of the ECASSA organizers and 10 relevant resource-persons of ECASSA member institutions. A compendium of 17 presentations has been made available by the experts to all participants of the training, and to ECASSA, which has further disseminated them among the larger membership.

  • Social Protection

    Support to implementation of the Management Information System (MIS) of the Zanzibar Universal Pension Scheme (ZUPS)

    SOUTHERN AFRICA TANZANIA, UNITED REPUBLIC OF
    Start activities
    20-11-2018
    End activities
    30/09/2019
    Partner Institution
    Ministry of Empowerment, Social Welfare, Youth, Women and Children
    Type of Assistance
    Information management systems
    Code
    2018-27
    Description
    The Action supported the Ministry of Empowerment, Social Welfare, Youth, Women and Children of Zanzibar in the roll-out of the MIS system for social pensions in Zanzibar (Pemba and Unguja). Experts from Germany and Spain provided technical advice and quality assurance, and ensured, with the participation of the UNICEF country office, that all actors achieved their tasks in due time. The main contribution of the experts was to keep the process on the right track, both in terms of technical requirements and implementation pace.

  • Social Protection

    Capacity building for East and Central African social security agencies

    SOUTHERN AFRICA TANZANIA, UNITED REPUBLIC OF
    Start activities
    sep-17
    End activities
    nov-17
    Partner Institution
    East and Central Africa Social Security Association
    Type of Assistance
    Training
    Code
    2017-05
    Description
    The action aimed to strengthen the capacity of the East and Central Africa Social Security Association (ECASSA) to design and conduct training in favor of its member organizations The three activities’ deliverables are similar and consist in the materials presented by SOCIEUX-mobilized experts/trainers throughout the three sessions and pertaining to social protection coverage, leadership and ethics, and occupational safety and health. The participating experts came from Germany, Italy, and the Netherlands

  • Social Protection

    Support to Universal Pension Scheme

    Southern Africa TANZANIA, UNITED REPUBLIC OF
    Start activities
    may-2015
    End activities
    feb-2017
    Partner Institution
    Ministry of Empowerment, Social Welfare, Youth, Women and Children (MoESWYWC)
    Type of Assistance
    Institutional Strengthening
    Code
    2014-26
    Description
    The action was instrumental to present to the Ministry of Empowerment, Social Welfare, Youth, Women and Children of Zanzibar a relevant European experience in establishing and managing Universal Social Pensions. Experts from Germany, the Netherlands, South Africa and Spain provided technical advice on what is affordable for Zanzibar in relation to its policy, fiscal, and demographic environment. They particularly focused on the information management system needed to deploy a social pensions scheme. They helped to draft an implementation plan, then supported the development of a project proposal and the technical specifications needed to develop a management information system.