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View metadata, citation and similar papers at core.ac.uk brought to you by CORE provided by Digital Library of Open University of Tanzania CAPACITY BUILDING AND EMPOWERMENT TO YOUTH GROUPS: A CASE STUDY OF BEACH BOYS COOPERATIVE PWANI MCHANGANI MCHA SHAAME SIMAI A DISSERTATION SUBMITTED IN PARTIAL FULFILLMENT OF THE REQUIREMENTS FOR THE DEGREE OF THE MASTER IN COMMUNITY ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT OF THE OPEN UNIVERSITY OF TANZANIA 2015 ii CERTIFICATION The undersigned certifies that he has read and hereby recommends for acceptance by the Open University of Tanzania a dissertation titled: “ “Capacity Building and Empowerment to Youth Groups: A Case Study of Beach Boys Cooperative Pwani Mchangani”, in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Community Economic Development of the Open University of Tanzania. ……………………………………………… Dr. Felician Mutasa (Supervisor) ………………………………………………… Date iii COPYRIGHT No part of this dissertation may be reproduced, store in any retrieval system, or transmitted in any form by any means electronic, mechanical, photocopy, recording or otherwise without prior written permission of the author or the open university of Tanzania in that behalf. iv DECLARATION I, Mcha, Shaame Simai , do hereby declare that this dissertation is my own original work and that it has not been printed and will not be presented to any other university for a similar or any other degree award. ………………………………………………………. Signature ……………………………………………………… Date v DEDICATION I dedicate this dissertation to my beloved wife Shani Haji, all my sons and daughters without forgetting my mother Asha Vuai as well as my friends Joshua David, Mohammed Abdallah Said. vi ACKNOWLEDGEMENT I would like to take this opportunity to extend my gratitude to Mr. Simai Shaame from the Shehia of Pwani Mchangani, all members of beach boy cooperative, regional commissioner of North Unguja Zanzibar Mr. Juma Kassim Tindwa for their support during data collection. I also gave thanks to my supervisor Dr. Mutasa for good guidance and cooperation during writing the dissertation. Finally I would like to thank my wife Shani and my children for their good cooperation and their tolerance endured during my studies. vii ABSTRACT The CNA was conducted with overall objective of collecting information about tourism activities especially that deals with beach boys’ tourism activities in Pwani Mchangani Unguja Zanzibar, this area assisted to identify the different problems that faces in that community but the Project ranking the problem and emerged with a single one to form the CAN project . The community of Pwani Mchangani havegot opportunity of tourism sectors that available within the area. The problem of the society was lack of knowledge on how to use the resources for their benefits and government in general. For that, the project provides knowledge of Entrepreneurship, financial and cooperative to the special group so as to make the resources available to be useful to their development. This knowledge helps them to control well how to operate the resources and project. The project provides different trains on how to operate the business such as entrepreneurial knowledge and cooperation skills which are more usefully to their daily activities and also advertize the project so as the society to be aware of the project internal and external. The project provide unity and solidarity to the members so as to be as single body and working together in order to obtain good team work in the cooperation. Empower youth so as to reduce dependence ratios of the government as well as from their family so as to increase the income to the government. To provide formality in the cooperation on operation in order to obtain many opportunities and to reduce obstacles from to be informality. Also more impacts will be appeared due to the project implementation. Providing skills and knowledge to the youth. Improving standards of living to the youth. Giving employment to the youth Promoting safe and qualities services to the tourists Reducing crime from the youth. viii TABLE OF CONTENTS CERTIFICATION ..................................................................................................... ii COPYRIGHT ............................................................................................................ iii DECLARATION ....................................................................................................... iv DEDICATION ............................................................................................................ v ACKNOWLEDGEMENT ........................................................................................ vi ABSTRACT .............................................................................................................. vii LIST OF TABLES .................................................................................................. xiii LIST OF FIGURES ................................................................................................. xv LIST OF ABBREVIATIONS ............................................................................... xvii CHAPTER ONE ........................................................................................................ 1 PARTICIPATORY NEEDS ASSESSMENT .......................................................... 1 1.1 Introduction ...................................................................................................... 1 1.2 The Community Profile of Shehia of Pwani Mchangani ................................. 1 1.2.1 Location ............................................................................................................ 1 1.2.2 Activities at Pwani Mchangani village (Shehia) .............................................. 2 1.2.3 Environmental Condition of Pwani Mchangani .............................................. 2 1.2.4 Education Services ........................................................................................... 2 1.2.5 Health Services ................................................................................................. 3 1.2.6 Water Services ................................................................................................. 3 1.2.7 Housing ............................................................................................................ 3 1.2.9 Security Services ................................................................................................. 4 1.2.10 Administrative Services .................................................................................... 4 ix 1.3 Community Participatory Assessment (CPA) .................................................. 4 1.4 General Objective ............................................................................................. 4 1.4.1 Specific Objectives ........................................................................................... 4 1.4.1.1 Research questions ........................................................................................... 5 1.4.2 Research Design ............................................................................................... 5 1.4.3 Research Methods ............................................................................................ 5 1.4.4 Research Tools ................................................................................................. 5 1.4.5 Sample Procedures ........................................................................................... 7 1.4.6 Participatory Research Findings and Data Analysis ........................................ 8 1.4.7 Demographic characteristics of Respondents................................................... 8 1.4.8 NGO Empowerment to Youth ........................................................................ 11 1.3.9 Summary of Findings and Problems .............................................................. 16 1.5 Chapter Summary ........................................................................................... 18 CHAPTER TWO ..................................................................................................... 22 PROBLEM IDENTIFICATION ............................................................................ 22 2.1 Background to Research Problem .................................................................. 22 2.2 Problems of Statement ................................................................................... 22 2.3 Project Description ......................................................................................... 23 2.4 Target Community ......................................................................................... 23 2.5 Stakeholders’ Analysis ................................................................................... 24 2.6 Project Goal .................................................................................................... 24 2.7 Project Objectives .......................................................................................... 24 2.8 Specific Objectives of this Project ................................................................. 24 2.9 Host Organization Profile ............................................................................... 25 x 2.10 The Group’s Vision Statement ......................................................................... 25 2.11 The Group’s Mission Statement ...................................................................... 26 2.12 Projects and Activities