HelpAge International Tanzania
HelpAge International work with partners including SAWAKA in implementing some strategic programs since 1994 to:
- Support the development of social protection policies that recognise auniversal social pension as a right of all older people.
- Improve access to free, age-friendly health services for older men and women and prevent and manage chronic illnesses.
- Ensure older men and women who are care givers or are living with HIV and AIDS themselves are included in government HIV and AIDS policies and strategies.
- Empower older men and women to claim their rights and seek protection from violence and discrimination.
Kwa Wazee
SAWAKA works closely with Kwa Wazee organisation in advocacy and OVC programs programs
MHOLA Mama’s Hope Organization for Legal Assistance
The headquarters of MHOLA are in the Tanzanian small town of Bukoba at the shore of Lake Victoria and the regional capital of Kagera. Twice a week they offer consultation hours in their club house-during which time women are able to speak to advocates and legal officers. These then decide in which way MHOLA can help. Primarily the conflicts are about land ownership and violence against women and children. Depending on a case to case basis, the help can range from a simple consultation to the writing of official letter and legal documents up to legal representation in court. And are successful. Of the 1166 cases that MHOLA has worked on between 2007-2011, 860 are closed cases mostly with a successful outcome for the clients of MHOLA. The Judiciary system in Tanzania is advanced, however many people, especially those living in the country, do not have access to legal representation and knowledge, and therefore are unable to defend themselves on legal grounds.
MHOLA works with SAWAKA in different livelihood programs like training of elderly women on their rights and entletlements, to train village based para legal workers on human rights etc
PACT Tanzania/USAID
Pact Tanzania has been operating as one of the 24 field offices of Pact in Africa, an international non-governmental organisation. It strives to build a strong, democratic society that protects the rights of and provides opportunities to vulnerable children, women, and marginalized groups, by focusing on organisational capacity strengthening and grants management. Thus, it provides specialised training, mentoring and technical assistance to civil society organisations and it has developed several grant programmes for orphans and other children at risk.
SAWAKA has been receiving program grants from Pact Tanzania/USAID since 2006 to implement different livelihoods programs including Pamoja Tuwalee Program.
Pact trained SAWAKA program staff in monitoring and evaluation, financial mamanagement, organisational management as well as other organisational capacity development.