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Tanzanian girls, from the time they are born, hold a lower status and value in society, enjoy less freedom and power over their lives, and have fewer opportunities for education and development than boys.  In a context of poverty and limited household resources, girls are the last selected for schooling, and the first to drop out, especially between primary and secondary school. 

 

 
Gender Based Violence Workshop 
 
"If all women had secondary education, 41% of under-5 death could be saved in sub-Saharan Africa"
 
A two day workshop funded by the Department for International Development and facilitated by Save the Children Fund was held in Dar es Salaam in June 2011 bringing together civil society organizations, international NGOs, and ministry representatives. The workshop identified the issues that girls face in relation to accessing and staying in school with a focus on Gender Based Violence. The participants mapped out what organisations and the Government of Tanzania are doing in regard to this; looked at successes, challenges and potential for replicability and scale up. 
 
The Sega School Headmistress and School Counselor attended this workshop and talked about how the Sega Girls School takes a 'Whole school approach' to this issue. In the review of the workshop, which can be seen on the link below, Sega Girls School was identified as a school with 'a lot of the components that we identified in the workshop as missing from schools in Tanzania and could be used as a model to draw good practice from.' (see p 13)

Click on this link to read the review of this workshop

United Nations - Tanzania

Fast Facts

“Tanzania needs skilled and well educated women and men to take part in the development of the country, so it cannot just stand aside while it is losing the most precious contribution of many young Tanzanian women to the development of the country because of early marriages and pregnancies.” The national guidelines on how to enable pregnant school girls to continue with their studies, MoEVT, March 2010
 
~quote from United Nations Tanzania report, July 2010, "Prevent adolescent pregnancis and keep girls in school!"
 
 
 

Follow this link to view full report