CROSSROADS SHIPMENT APPLICATION
A1. YOUR INFORMATION: This section asks you to tell us the contact details for your organisation, as well as about your registration and details of referees that we can contact.
A2. YOUR WORK: Firstly, this section asks you to tell us about your region and the needs there. It also asks you to tell us about the programmes you run, your staff and support. We would also like to hear of the history of your organisation’s work as well as your plans for the future.
A3. SHIPMENT REQUEST: Here, we would like you to tell us about the goods that you need for the work of your organisation and how they will be used. We also ask about the availability of goods in your country and special considerations about the goods requested.
A4. RECEIVING THE SHIPMENT: In this section, we ask you about your experience in receiving a shipment (if any) and about customs requirements in your country. We also ask some practical questions about dealing with the goods once they have arrived in your country.
A5.FEEDBACK AND ACCOUNTABILITY: This section asks about your commitment to follow up, as this is a very important part of the shipment procedure.
A6. NEXT STEPS: This section has a checklist of the attachments we would like from you. It also tells you how to lodge the application form and how and when we will respond.
A1. YOUR INFORMATION
A1.1 Reference number given to you by Crossroads. S 3198
A1.2 Organisation Name: Women Rights Action Group (WRAG)
A1.3 Organisation Information
Country of operation: The United Republic of Tanzania
Mailing address: P.o.Box 1340, Kigoma
Street address (if different): SIDO-AREA, Along Kasulu-Kigoma Road, Kigoma, Tanzania.
Email:
Website address:http://envaya.org/wragroup
Phone #1: +255 713480586 Phone #2:+255 755 510011
Fax #1: Not applicable Fax #2: Not applicable
A1.3 Information for Contacts
A1.3.1 Director
Name: Ms Nasra Amri
Email address:
Phone #1: +255 713480586 Phone #2: +255 762 044 101
A1.3.2 Contact person for shipment (if different from above)
Name: Ms Christina Ruzoka
Position (Job designation): Treasurer
Email:
Phone #1: +255 769 38 68 7 Phone #2: +255 762 044 101
A1.4 Registration
A1.4.1 Are you a registered organisation? ¨√Yes ¨ No
If yes, please attach a copy of your registration certificate.
A1.4.2 If no, please tell us what steps, if any, you have taken in the registration process:
Not applicable.
A1.5 Annual Report and Financial Statements
A1.5.1 Does your organisation have an annual report from last year? ¨√Yes ¨ No
A1.5.2 Does your organisation have a current financial statement? ¨√Yes ¨ No
If yes, please attach a copy of each of these.
A1.6 Referees
Please give names and contact details of at least two referees from different organisations who know you and can recommend your work. It is most helpful if these organisations are well known and recognised internationally. They cannot be on your staff or board, but they do need to be familiar with your work. We will contact them directly.
Organisation #1:__ Mama cash/Fund for Women P.o.Box 15686/1001 ND Amsterdam The Netherlands / Organisation #2: The African Women's Development Fund Office: Plot 78 Ambassadorial Enclave, East Legon Post: P.M.B CT 89 Cantonments, Accra, GhanaContact Name: Ms Azita Azargoshsba or (Jesca Sinclair and Josephine Abahunjikindi-Former desk Officers) / Contact Name:Gifty Anim
Email: / Email: or
Phone: +31 (0) 20 689 36 34 / Phone: + 233 302521257
Fax:+31 (0) 20 683 4647 / Fax: + 233 302521257
A1.7 Connections with Crossroads
Please tell us briefly how you came to know about Crossroads. (Eg. names and organisations)
I know about Crossroads through website.
A2. YOUR WORK
A2.1 Your Region
A2.1.1 Environment
Do you work?
¨ By the sea? ¨√ In a rural area?
¨ In the mountains? ¨ In a large town or city?
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What kind of climate do you live in?
Dry seasons start in October while tailing off May and rains seasons start in June and ending in September each year
What is the estimated population in the region where you serve? 1.6 Million Whereas 848,000 (53%) are females and 752,000 (47%) males. (Tanzania National Sensus 2002)
What are some of the main ways people in your area earn their living?
1,216,000 (76%) population are peasants and animal keepers as they cultivate maize, cassava, sweat potatoes, oil palm, and varieties of green vegetables and sorghum as food crops and coffee and bananas as cash crops. 272,000 (17%) population do fishing along the World second deepest Lake Tanganyika and its inlet rivers like Maragarasi and Luiche rivers. 80,000 (5 %) do petty business in towns particularly, Kigoma Municipal, Kasulu and Kibondo.32,000 (2%) are employed in both government and private sectors.
A2.1.2 Local needs
What is life like for the people in your area? Please provide a brief description of the main needs, using the headings below. Please attach some photos that show these needs.
Based on the 2009 and 2010 Kigoma regional social economical development annual reports indicate the main common problems that face poor dwellers in Kigoma region which are as follows;
Social needs:
-97% of youth, women and disabled community based organizations (CBOs) have inadequate capacities in service delivery in the community. The problem is chiefly caused by lacking office equipments and tools like computers printers, scanners, photocopiers, digital cameras in towns and generators for those that are in rural areas. Others are furniture, files, stationeries and punching machines. They also lack field gears.
-Women Rights Action Group (WRAG) provides poor coordination in the community as it lacks transport.
-4 Orphans centres namely; Sanganigwa A and B, Kigoma and Matiazo provide poor services for orphans as they lack sports gears, clothes, shoes, bedding materials, persons tools and equipments, and educational materials. The centres have buildings and staff.
-99.8 % Many Primary schools that are newly constructed by government in Kigoma Municipal provide poor education services as they lack equipment and tools like computers for improving information technology and sporting gears. Put into consideration that the Municipal has reliable electrical power, trained teachers and security.
-Only Katubuka Primary School that enrols mentally disabled and hand capped students provide poor education services as they lacks tools and equipments like computers for improving information technology and sporting gears. Put into consideration that the Municipal has reliable electrical power, trained teachers and security. It also has poor infrastructures.
-Only Lake Tanganyika stadium in Kigoma Municipal provide poor sports services as it lacks girls sporting gears like nets, goals, ground and jesses.
-The World second deepest Lake Tanganyika provide poor sports services as it lacks swimming gears which may be also used as recreational and tourism purposes.
-Peasant and fishing people still use traditional tools like hand tools, boats for fishing while using poor quality seeds and agricultural equipments and tools and fish processing tools and equipments. Also, they lack protective gears.
-Animal keepers provide poor quality products as they lack animal and products tools and equipments
Economic needs: The reports also indicate that people in Kigoma face the main common economical problems are as follows;
-79% farmers-groups have low incomes as they lack improved processing equipments like grinding machines and storage gears. Moreover, they also lack oil extracting/pressing machines.
-98.7% women especially, disabled tailoring, knitting and embroidery groups have low incomes as they lack improved both manual and electrical sewing machines.
-89% youth carpenters groups have low incomes as they lack improved carpentry equipments and tools.
-Many palm oil soap making people have low incomes as they lack improved palm oil extracting equipment and tools.
-100% shoes repairing and making people have low incomes as they lack improved both electrical and manual shoes making (sewing) tools and equipments.
-100% youth clothes washing groups have low incomes as they lack improved both manual and electrical equipments and tools.
87% of out school youths (male and females) lack employment opportunities from either government or private or self ones. Put also into consideration that out of them, 71% have knowledge and skills in various trades got from either vocational training centres or colleges in the country.
Physical/Health needs:
Furthermore, the reports indicate the following under physical and health aspects:
-97% of hand capped people have poor services as they lack supporting gears like bicycles, wheel chairs, artificial legs and hands, sticks, audiovisual tools and equipments and educational facilities.
-100% albinos face skin problems as they have no skin protective gears including oils.
-100 eyes impaired and deaf people face information technology as they lack equipments and tools for training.
- 69% of medical stores in towns provide poor quality services as they lack equipments and tools like furniture, storages and packaging materials.
-61% of rural dispensaries provide poor quality services as they laboratory equipments and tools and admission equipments and tools and staff protective gears.
Other needs (For example, Youth):
Most of the girls are discriminated from education and employment opportunities engage in illegal prostitutes that resulting into getting HIV and AIDS and eventually, increasing deaths and other related sister problems resulting into absolute poverty.
Community Environmental Hygiene and cleanliness:
-52% community members live in poor and dirty environments as they lack improved environmental equipments and tools like grass cutters, cobs, dust beans, fumigation equipments and tools and, protective gears.
Community Environmental Protection:
-100% community members do not participate in environmental protection especially, during the unprotected bush fire outbreak as they lack fire extinguisher equipments and tools, protective gears.
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A2.1.3 Has any research been done in your area to measure the extent of these needs? For example, needs assessments, surveys, government reports etc. Please attach available documents or give us the relevant website address.
Yes,
A2.2 Your Programmes
A2.2.1 Briefly describe your vision and goals:
Vision: To live in a World in which there equal social justice, equality and respect of women human rights.
Mission: To improve women social economic welfares while promoting women human rights and fighting against HIV and AIDS epidemic in the community.
A2.2.2 Please tick the programmes in which your organisation has been /is currently involved, if any:
(Please note, this refers to past or present programmes not future plans)
¨ Aged care ¨ Food provision ¨ Public policy & advocacy
¨ √Agricultural services ¨ √Gender equality ¨ Refugee & migration services
¨ Child care ¨ Health & nutrition ¨ Rehabilitation services
¨ √Community development ¨√ Human rights ¨ Relief
¨ Cultural preservation ¨ Human traffic ¨ Shelter & housing provision
¨ √Development ¨√ Information technology¨√ Volunteer services
¨ Disaster relief ¨√ Job Creation ¨ Water & sanitation services
¨√ Education & training ¨ Medical equip. & services ¨ Youth services
¨ Environmental conservation ¨ Land mine action ¨ Other
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A2.2.3 Please describe each of the programmes you are currently running, tell us whether it is ongoing or short term, how long it has been operating and estimate the number of people currently reached by each programme. (If you need more space, please add an additional sheet.)
Description of programme you are currently running / Is this programme ongoing or short term? / How long has this programme has been operating? / How many people are currently reached by the programme?Promote Women Land Policy, procedures and laws / On-going / 4 years / 453,098
Supporting girls education Materials / On-going / 5 years / 765
Support tools. Equipments to women emerging social groups. / Short term / 1 year / 11
Build Organizational Capacity / On-going / 1 year / 51
Promote women rights in the community / Short term / 1 year / 231.219
A2.3 Facilities
Briefly describe your present facilities: (eg. land and buildings)
Presently, WRAG hire an office in Kigoma Municipality. Moreover, the organization has 2.5 acreages of land in Kigoma rural area. Furthermore, the organization has 1 Motorbike for covering transport purpose.
A2.4 Staff
A2.4.1 How many people work on your staff in total? 13
A2.4.2 Of the total number of staff how many are:
Full time: 5 Part time: 7
A2.4.3 Of the total number of staff how many are:
Local: 13 International: Not Applicable
A2.4.4 Of the total number of staff how many work in:
Office/Administration: 3 Fieldworks: 5
Support (technical or otherwise): 3 Other sectors: Consultants through contracts.
A2.5 Current Support
A2.5.1 Please name the organisations who have supported you in the past or are currently supporting you. (We will treat this information as confidential.)
Global Fund for Women (USA) supported the organization on promoting women rights in Kigoma in 2006.
VIGIF-USA supported the organization on supporting girls education at Pamila Primary School in rural area in 2006.
Vraag International and Gereed (The Netherlands) supported on tools, machinery and equipments for community based organizations (CBOs) in Kigoma rural areas in 2006/2007.
Mama Cash (The Netherlands) supported the organization on promoting women land rights in 2008/9 in Kigoma region.
African Women Development Fund (AWDF) has been supporting the organization on promoting women land rights in Kigoma region for 2010/2011.
The Foundation for Civil Society-Tanzania has been supporting the organization on organizational capacity building for 2011.
If you need more space, attach a separate list of your supporters.
A2.5.2 Please indicate which type(s) of support you receive on a regular basis:
¨√ Financial support ¨ √ Goods ¨ Trained Volunteers
¨ √ Untrained volunteers ¨ Other (specify)
A2.5.3 Please indicate which type(s) of support you receive on an occasional basis:
¨ Financial support ¨ Goods ¨√Trained Volunteers
¨ Untrained volunteers ¨ Other (specify)
A2.5.4 Have you recently asked any other organisations for support? Please describe what type of support? Yes, I asked financial support
A2.5.5 Have you registered with Global Hand (www.globalhand.org)? Not yet
A2.6 Your Work So Far
A2.6.1 Please give a brief history of your organisation’s work so far: