Annual Report 2015

The CEDO is a non-governmental organization; The CEDO was registered officially in 2010 with registration No NGO oooo3928, and works in Tanzania mainland. THE ORGANIZATION’S GOAL: - The CEDO aims to be a community of the status and favorable conditions of life, to have a sustainable economy, raising the level of awareness in the community and reduce the extreme poverty and hunger. VISION Is to have people who are educated and aware of their rights community, engaged in sustainable employment with respect to income, which can increase good productivity for enhancing the quality of life and social well being of Tanzanians, reducing poverty, as well as responding to the challenges of globalization..

Beneficiaries of CEDO is young people, Women, children, the disabled, prisoners and their families, elders, students and people living with HIV.

Organizational activities focused on the areas of Policy Analysis, Environment, Human Rights, Governance, Agriculture and Animal Husbandry, Nutrition, drug control, education, health care, and research.

2.1. Advocacy on nutrition and women and Child rights 2.2. Reproductive health and life planning skills 2.3. HIV/AIDS prevention and assistance

3.1. Economic empowerment to youth/women 3.2. Organization Development ( OD)/How to create innovation ideas 3.3. Preservation natural resources and the environment

- 6 researchers from CEDO have been educated on research plan and questions, creating insight statements and How Might we question, Brainstorming to generate ideas and Build the prototype.

Food security exist when all people, have access to sufficient safe and nutrition food that meets their dietary needs for an active and health life. Tanzania has strutted to insure food security in the country such as food self-stuffiness Ration and strategic, Grain Reserve. The SGR is used to stabilize food price and support poor families in event of food crisis. The SGR through other sector including Agriculture and health takes appropriate measures to address the issue of poverty reduction and community empowerment. This includes presentation of low birth weight, improve child feeding practices, micronutrient supplementation and salt, iodations and capacity building for nutrition intervention and treatment of chronically malnourished children. According to CEDO survey and statistics from Nzega District Agriculture and nutrition show that Nzega District has about 502, 252 residents, 167 villages, out of 99 villages are faced with the food insecurity with the 20,467 tons in 2013/2014. We learned that people are getting one meal per day and there is a poor agriculture production and lack of income to purchase nutritious food for children, this was found to Maria Maganga a young Mother aged 23 with three children gating one meal per day. In the discussion phase the organization and community members suggested to put their efforts in harnessing agriculture to improve the access of households to affordable and nutrition food throughout the year, by providing agricultural training, providing inputs (e.g. seeds, tubers, fertilizers etc, and use the technology in agriculture such as irrigation agriculture.

Malnutrition is responsible for over one third of child deaths every year in Tanzania. In fact, about 130 children die every day in Tanzania from causes related to malnutrition, and it is the single greatest cause of child deaths in the country. Malnutrition is also one of the factors responsible for the high number of maternal deaths. More than 10 million women in Tanzania are anemic due to iron deficiency, and more than 1600 women die each year from complications to anemia during childbirth. According to CEDO survey and statistics from Health District office show that the death of children under five years is remain the problem in this area in January to June 2014, about of 175 children die in these six months 0-5 years 98, 0- 1 year 22 and 0-28 days 58. And women died in these moths were 6. The community are faced with the challenge of distance of health centers, lack of medicine, parent desirable buy drugs, poor economic, lack of income to purchase nutritious food, poor sanitation hygiene, unsafe water, low literacy of caregivers and the low status of women in society. The efforts can be directed to empower breastfeeding mothers; pregnancy women and community in general with promote awareness and compliance with the Maternity protection.

Tanzania’s socio-economic development is based on the Tanzania Development Vision, aimed at eradicating poverty by Tanzania joined the commitment of 189 other nations in implementing the development Goals (MDGs) proclaimed by the General Assembly of the United Nations in September 200. The MDGs aim at enabling developing countries to work in partnership towards the eradication poverty throughout the world. Tanzania mainland implements the Tanzania Development Vision 2025 and the Millennium Development Goals through various strategies, including the National Strategy for Growth and Reduction of Poverty. (NSGRP) Through NSGRP which address improvement in all sectors, there has been little improvement in the agriculture and industry sectors, which could have helped to reduce poverty by creating employment. According to CEDO survey and information from Nzega Planning office show that the sectors expected in economic growth in this area are agriculture and livestock keeping, Mining, fishing, Beekeeping, and business. The main sector control in this area is agriculture and livestock keeping and business. The income of individual citizens of this area is TZs 26,667 per month, equal TZs 889 per day. The challenges faced economic growth in this area are poor infrastructure, Climate change, environment degradation, lack of entrepreneurship training, lack of industries that can help to employing youths, lack of markets for farmers.

- 15 young people have been trained reproductive health and life planning skills, protection via un wanted pregnancies, impact of early pregnancy in education, health and economic, importance of education in their lives.

- 6 People living with HIV have been trained on life stands skills for HIV/AIDS - 5 Organization staff, and volunteers have been trained on HIV/AIDS prevention. - 3 OVC have been supported with school fees

Economic empowerment to youth and women - 20 Group of youth and women, CSOs have been trained on entrepreneurship.

- 10 CSOs have been trained on how to create innovation and organization development, how to use Concept diagrams to identify organizational situation

- 10 CSOs, individual have been made aware on how to create innovation on preservation natural resource and environment tacking climate change

STRATEGIES PLAN OF To provide education to CSOs, community members on advocacy nutrition to women and children rights. 2. To provide training to young people and students on reproductive health and life planning skills. 3. To provide education to community members and young people on HIV/AIDS prevention

STRATEGIES 4.To provide training to young people and women on entrepreneurship 5. To provide training to innovators on preservation natural resources and the environment to tacking climate change 6. To promote school feeding program to improve school attendance and learning outcome

Thank you