About KIOO
UMOJA WA WAWEZESHAJI KIOO is a non governmental organization, non political organization, non religious organization, non sectarian, non gender based, non profit making, we concern with helping community in their midst need. We can work with religious in order to faster our goal if and only if that is seen as the medium of communication with the community concern, the same to other organization based on gender and any issues world wide.
The idea of forming this organization UMOJA WA WAWEZESHAJI KIOO comes from the former REFLECT,ACCESS and STAPING STONE facilitators who were facilitated by Action Aid International in Ilagala Division in Kigoma region western part of Tanzania. We as the facilitators we were and still having cycles in villages forming Ilagala Division. These cycles are increasing day to day and its number had increased from 16 cycles to 45 cycles. Number of participants also had increased from 1600 to 4500. These cycles are used by the community as a source of idea, information, innovation and transformation of new knowledge. Different methodologies are being used, most and the highest one is STAR methodologies and Reflect.
KIOO got its registration since November 9, 2004 under the society ordinance act of 1954 in Tanzanian law as NGO and is handling registration number SO 12793. Our main office is in Kigoma district in Ilagala village almost 66 kilometers south wards from Kigoma town.
ADDRESS OF THE ORGANIZATION
UMOJA WA WAWEZESHAJI KIOO,
P.O.BOX 1369,
KIGOMA,
TANZANIA-EAST AFRICA.
Mob: +255753 018397/+255787 018397
E-mail:kioo2006@yahoo.com
www.kioo.or.tz/www.envaya.org/kioo
*REFLECT: means Regenerated, Frelian, Empowering through, Community, Techniques. While STAR means: Society Tackling AIDS through Rights. All are the development tool with participatory approach for community mobilization, empowerment and response to analysis and understanding of poverty and its impacts for community.
Organization bank information
In order to handle our work well the organization has an account at CRDB Bank at Kigoma branch, the account number is 01J1087094600. This account has four signatories where two of them are women and the rest two are men. In order to make accountability and transparence in organizations’ fund the one who need such fund for a certain work she/he must applying for it to the chair person and chair person should sign his/her application, from therefore an accountant can write him/her a cheques or cash transaction to an applicant.
Account name: Umoja wa wawezeshaji Kioo Ilagala
Account number: O1J1087094600
Name of the Bank: CRDB Bank Kigoma Branch
P.O.BOX 575
KIGOMA
Tell 0255 28 280 22 49
VISSION STATEMENT
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KIOO’s vision is of world in which every human being lives in dignity and equality on the attainment of economic and social needs to promote understanding and peace in the society for future development for the common good. |
MISSION STATEMENT
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KIOO’s’ mission is to advocate for women rights to own land and other property including decision making and better education for rural children, training rural people on new methodologies in agriculture and food security, training to the community members on the effect on new HIV/AIDS transmission, enhancing good governance and accountability by conducting social accountability monitoring and public expenditure tracking ,providing social, educational materials and health facilities to most vulnerable children, taking action to water sanitation problems in the community and facilitating the community members to have an ability in different policies and laws through juvenile community Justice facilitation. |
GOAL
KIOO Organization is self-sustaining, lobbying & advocating and positively impacting on social provision and poverty reduction
Values
In the five years to come, KIOO is committed to ensure the following values are an integral part of their life during the programme implementation. The commitment to these values is the consensus by the KIOO members who were all convened in a five day session and ultimately made the resolved on the following values:
- · Openness
- · Professionalism
- · Commitment
- · Non-partisan
- · Accountability
- · Transparency
- · Equality
- · Voluntarism
- · Team spirit
OBECTIVES FOR KIOO IS ESTABLISHED ARE
- To raise awareness and empowering the community about children, women and human right at all levels by motivating affordable and secure housing especially for the low income community
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Advocacy and lobbying to the public on crosscutting issues including providing community with current news on different matters concerning development.
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To support programs which campaigning education development for children, youth, illiteracy and community in general by collaborating with different NGOs providing books, tools and any other resources which in one way or another may help our community. five years to come, from 2011 to 2015. It highlights major policy and program priorities and engagements at village, Ward and district levels in Kigoma district. This is our operational plan which intends to address issues from the analysis of the local context. The external contexts have been analyzed and given priority in making our engagement connected to what is happening in plan.
The programme will utilize and strengthening the Capacity of community members to have more competence in diagnosing their problems and find sustainable solutions. This community empowerment will remain for the scaling up of development in rural areas where our presence is mostly felt. We are optimistic that the foundation which we have laid will speed up the ongoing efforts to eradicate poverty by using the Right Based Approach because local communities are now able to stand united and advocate for their issues of concern. The following are the key thematic priorities which Kioo Area plans to focus its attention in 2011-2015:
1.1 Education:
The major identified issues of focus include Girl child education, Early marriages and Early pregnancies and Infrastructures e.g. classrooms, teachers houses, desks, toilets books etc. More advocacies are needed for the local government to allocate more resources to solve infrastructure problems in education while they are thinking on vocational trainings.
1.2 Food Security and environment conservation:
The priority issues identified are Access to farm inputs, access to extension services, Cooperative marketing of farm products, farmer field schools, Lack of credits, Income poverty among women, Women rights to own land, Strengthening managerial and financial skills of CBOs, Networking for information sharing, Skills and knowledge exchange through farmers show and farmers centre to be built in Ilagala Village.
1.3 Women Right
The identified priority issues include Girl child education, Early marriages and Early pregnancies, Decision making, Inheritance marriages, Income, poverty among women, customary practices, Insubordination of women, Violence against women, Less priority to girl child education, Right to inheritance/ ownership of properties/land, Patriarchy system/customary practices Participation of women in decision making both at family and community level.
4.4 HIV/AIDS and other STDs
The priority issues are Lack of consistent care and support to PLHA, Lack of HIV/AIDS, Cultural causes that put women into vulnerability towards HIV/AIDS and Gender based violence that instigate spread of HIV/AIDS, Low levels of understanding the causes and effects of HIV among village people, Mainly youth whoa are involving in drug abuse and girls involving in sex workers
4.5 Good Governance and Accountability
The priorities are Ineffective community participation in influencing decision making processes due to weak capacity of poor and excluded people’s organization leading to the denial of their rights, Low level of transparency, accountability, policy information accessibility and dissemination on the side of government and non-state actors
4.6 Most vulnerable children rights
The priority issues are Lack of care and support to MVC, Lack of children participation in decision making, Cultural causes that put children into vulnerability towards HIV/AIDS and Gender based violence that instigate spread of HIV/AIDS, Low levels of understanding the causes and affects children among village people, Mainly youth whoa are involving in drug abuse and girls involving in sex workers
4.7 Water and sanitation for community
The priority issues identified are Access to sanitation inputs, access to water services, which has made Ilagala people to become poor in all aspect. Women are suffering much than men because are the one using most of their time for seeking water in more than 12 kilometers.
4.8 Juvenile and community justice facilitation
The Juvenile Justice Services section is one of the sections that form KIOO organization; others are Family and Child Welfare and Services to People with Disabilities. The Juvenile Justice Services itself had four subsections namely, Juvenile Court and Community Justice Services, Correctional Institutions, Juvenile Delinquents and Truant Children Living in the Streets and Rehabilitation Services to Drug and Substance Abusers.
4.9 Organization development
The priority issues identified are Access to development inputs, access to extension services, Cooperative for development of community members, Lack of new technologies in dealing with community, Monitoring and evaluation of organization and community projects, Project planning and management, Strengthening managerial and financial skills of KIOO, Networking for information sharing, Skills and knowledge exchange through NGO show and exhibitions
ORGANIZATIONAL CAPACITY AND OPARATION
The organization has a total number of 5 paid staff and 8 local volunteers, experienced in project Implementation, monitoring and evaluation. There is reliable office with enough space for working. We have 4 desk top computers and 2 laptops. In 2011 we are going to connect our office with internet services.