ADP Mbozi – Annual Report 2016
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ACTIONS FOR DEVELOPMENT PROGRAMMES - MBOZI (ADP MBOZI) ANNUAL REPORT 2016 P.O. Box 204 Mbozi, Songwe Region, Tanzania Tel. +255 (025)-2580095 Mob. +255 0754 398342, Fax: +255 (025) 2580312 E-Mail: [email protected] Website: www.adpmbozi.or.t 1 | P a g e Table of Contents List of Abbreviations ...................................................................................................................... 4 LIST OF TABLES .......................................................................................................................... 6 LIST OF PLATES .......................................................................................................................... 6 PREFACE ....................................................................................................................................... 7 ACKNOWLEDGEMENT .............................................................................................................. 8 EXECUTIVE SUMMARY ............................................................................................................ 9 SECTION ONE: GENERAL BACKGROUND INFORMATION ............................................. 10 1.1: INTRODUCTION ............................................................................................................. 10 1.2 HISTORICAL BACKGROUND........................................................................................ 10 1.3 ORGANIZATIONAL SET UP........................................................................................... 11 1.4 WORKING AREA ............................................................................................................. 11 SECTION TWO: ADP MBOZI STRATEGIC DIRECTION ...................................................... 12 2.1: VISION, MISSION AND VALUES OF ADP MBOZI .................................................... 12 2.1.1 Vision ........................................................................................................................... 12 2.1.2 Mission ......................................................................................................................... 12 2.1.3 Core Values ............................................................................................................. 12 2.2: STRATEGIC FOCUS AREAS AND STRATEGIES ....................................................... 12 2.2.1: Sustainable Food and Nutrition Security Development ............................................. 12 2.2.2: Entrepreneurial and markets development................................................................. 12 2.2. 3: Environmental management ...................................................................................... 12 2.2.4: Community Empowerment (Gender, HIV and AIDS and Good Governance) ........... 13 2.2.5: ADP Mbozi internal capacity strengthening. ............................................................. 13 2.3 THE APPROACHES ......................................................................................................... 13 SECTION THREE: 2016 PROGRAMME/PROJECTS IMPLEMENTED IN YEAR 2016 ....... 14 3.1 SUSTAINABLE FOOD AND NUTRITION SECURITY DEVELOPMENT .................. 14 3.1.1 Food Security project in Momba district (2014 - 2016) .............................................. 14 3.1.2 Food Security project in Momba and Songwe districts (July 2016 to December 2018). ............................................................................................................................................... 15 3.2.3 Mwanzo Bora Nutrition Programme (2016 – 2018) .................................................... 16 3.2 ENTREPRENEURSHIP AND MARKET DEVELOPMENT ........................................... 18 3.2.3: Strengthening market groups (PEML) – MIRVAF (July 2015 to June 2018) ........... 19 3.3 COMMUNITY EMPOWERMENT ON HIV/AIDS, GENDER AND GOOD GOVERNANCE ....................................................................................................................... 21 3.3.1 Pamoja Tuwalee project in Wanging’ombe district (October 2015 to September 2016) ............................................................................................................................................... 21 3.3.2: Pamoja Tuwalee project in Mbozi district (October 2015 to September 2016) ........ 22 3.3.4: Combating new HIV infections in Chunya district (October 2015 to September 2016) ............................................................................................................................................... 24 3.3.5: Behavior Change Communication program on Key Population in Mbeya (April to September 2016) ................................................................................................................... 26 3.3.6: Wazazi Nipendeni project in Wanging’ombe district (July 2015 to September 2016) ............................................................................................................................................... 27 3.3.7: KiuFunza intervention (January 2013 to December 2016 ......................................... 28 2 | P a g e 3.4 IMPROVING ENVIRONMENT AND DEALING WITH CLIMATE CHANGE (NO PROJECT WAS CONCEIVED OR PREPARED .................................................................... 28 3.5 INSTITUTIONAL AND ORGANIZATIONAL DEVELOPMENT ................................. 29 3.5.1 Strenghthening the organizational and institutional capacity of ADP Mbozi. ............ 29 SECTION FOUR: FINANCIAL PERFORMANCE .................................................................... 31 SECTION FIVE: CHALLENGES AND LESSONS ................................................................... 37 5.1 PROGRAMME LEVEL CHALLENGES .......................................................................... 37 5.2 ORGANIZATIONAL CHALLENGES.............................................................................. 37 5.3 LESSONS LEARNT .......................................................................................................... 37 3 | P a g e List of Abbreviations ADP Actions for Development Programmes (Initially Agricultural Development Project) AGRA Alliance for a Green Revolution Africa AIDS Acquired Immuno Deficiency Syndrome AMCOS Agricultural Marketing Cooperatives Societies. ART Anti Retroviral Therapy ARV Anti Retroviral Drugs CBHS Community Based Health Care CCA Community Change Agent CDTF Community Development Trust Fund CEW Community Extension Worker CHMT Council Health Management Team COOPIBO Belgium NGO (Now VECO Tanzania) CTC Counseling and Testing Center DC District Council DKA The Development Cooperation Agency of Katholische Jungscha. DMO District Medical Officer ECD Early Child Development. fe female FFS Farmers Field School fhh female-headed household. FO Farmers Organization GBV Gender Based Violence HIV Human Immunodeficiency Virus HH Household HTC HIV Testing and Counseling IGA Income Generating Activity IPG Implementing Partner Group KP Key Population LGA Local Government Authority MFSP Momba Food Security Project MUAC Mid –Upper Arm Circumference MVC Most Vulnerable Children MVCC Most Vulnerable Children Committee NACS Nutrition assessment Counselling and Support NACP National Costed Plan of Action NGO Non Governmental Organization OVC Orphans and Vulnerable Children PASHA Prevention for School HIV AIDS PELUM Participatory Ecological Land Use Management PEML Producer Empowerment and Market Linkage PEPFAR President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief P O Program Officer PP Priority Population QDS Quality Declared Seeds STI Sexually Transmitted Infection 4 | P a g e TCDC Tanzania Communication and Development Centre TOT Training Of Trainers TOSCI Tanzania Official Seed Certification Institute VAC Violence Against Children. VECO Belgiun International NGO VEO Village Executive Officer VET Vocational Education Training VICOBA Village Community Bank WEO Ward Executive Officer WRP Walter Reed Programme 5 | P a g e LIST OF TABLES Table i: HIV prevention in Chunya and Songwe district- Major achievements ……………….. 26 LIST OF PLATES Plate i: Farmer Field School members in Ifuko village discussing progress of maize crop in FFS plot ……………………………………………………………………………………………... 15 Plate ii: Farmer in Mwagala village observing her Soya bean crop field ……………………… 16 Plate iii: Sack garden - low cost and water effecient homegarden for growing vegetables …… 17 Plate iv: Farmers in Igamba ward listening attentively to Ward Extension officer Ms Zainabu Majubwa during field day on maize FFS ……………………………………………………….19 Plate v: Caregivers meeting in Mlowo ward, Mbozi district …………………………………... 22 Plate vi: Training for ADP Mbozi members, Board and Management Team …………………. 29 6 | P a g e PREFACE Actions for Development Programmes Mbozi (ADP Mbozi) is an autonomous Non- Governmental Organization (NGO) being a grouping of individuals who are members and it is non-profit sharing and non partisan. It is established under and subject to the exclusive jurisdictions of the laws of the United Republic of Tanzania. ADP Mbozi initially started as a project in 1985 to address the problem of famine that was frequently occurring in many parts of Southern Tanzania including Mbozi district. Due to this situation Mbozi District Council in collaboration with Community Development Trust Fund of Tanzania (CDTF) and COOPIBO (now VECO), a Belgian NGO decided to establish a development programme named Agricultural Development Project (ADP) for Mbozi District in 1986 to address the frequent problems