UN
Resident Coordinator and UNDP Resident Representative, Alvaro Rodriguez
(front right) and Deputy Minister of Home Affairs and founder of
Tanzania Youth Icon, Hon. Hamad Masauni join local community members in
listening to a presentation on the first phase of the UNDP water
project.The water and the conservation projects have been running for several
years and now that the first phase have been successfully implemented,
both projects will be scaled-up. Each project is set to receive USD
50,000 this year through the UNDP Small Grants Programme to begin
implementation of phase two. On Friday and Saturday, the UN Chief will also visit a number of
schools where UN agencies, namely UNICEF and UNDP, are set to begin
Water, Sanitation and Hygiene (WASH) projects later this year. These
WASH projects will cover ten schools. Of these ten schools,the ones that
will be visited include Mkwajuni Secondary School in Kaskazini, Unguja
and Wingwi Primary School in Micheweni District, Pemba. Chairperson
of Tanzania Youth Icon (TAYI), Abdallah Othman Miraji (left); UN
Resident Coordinator and UNDP Resident Representative, Mr. Alvaro
Rodriguez (far left); and Deputy Minister of Home Affairs and founder of
Tanzania Youth Icon, Hon. Hamad Masauni (middle left) visit a new
building that TAYI built with support from the European Union through
UNICEF. “The United Nations in Tanzania is keen to see the
Revolutionary Government of Zanzibar reach its social and development
goals through MKUZA III. Education and Climate Change are two of the
priorities of the revolutionary government.In terms of education,the
authorities wish to achieve a higher quality education and supporting
Goal 6: ‘Clean Water and Sanitation’ at the school level will help
achieve this objective. We all believe that a healthy student has a
better chance of performing well in school and reaching his or her full
potential,”said Mr.Rodriguez. Two of the districts where WASH will be implemented, Micheweni and
Kaskazini districts offer an example of the current needs that exist
when it comes to need to improve the ratio of toilets to students in
Zanzibar.For example, the number of students per toilet in KaskaziniA is
1 to 143 for girls and1 to 278 for boys. Sustained intervention is needed to reach the international standard which is1 to 20 for girls and 1 to 25 for boys. UN
Resident Coordinator and UNDP Resident Representative, Alvaro Rodriguez
(left) being shown some art done by kids who are of programmes being
implemented by Tanzania Youth Icon (TAYI).UN
staff are shown some of the 200 beehives that were created as a result
of UNDP’s environmental conservation project in Kajengwa, Makunduchi
Zanzibar.Some of the Beehives established by the UNDP energy conservation project in Kajengwa, Makunduchi, ZanzibarUN,
Tanzania Youth Icon and government officials visit the borehole that
was drilled during the first phase of the clean water access project.UN
Resident Coordinator and UNDP Resident Representative Alvaro Rodriguez
(right) draws water that is accessible because of the project and places
it on the head of one of the local women.UN
Resident Coordinator and UNDP Resident Representative, Alvaro Rodriguez
announces that UNDP will give an additional sh110m to scale up the
clean water access project.Representative
of Kikwajuni constituency, Nassor Salim Ali (Jazira); Ministry of
Lands, Water, Energy and Environment-Hon. Salama Aboud Talib; UN
Resident Coordinator and UNDP Resident Representative, Alvaro Rodriguez;
Sheha of Shehia at Kikwajuni, Juma Sadati Haji; Deputy Home Affairs Minister and founder of Tanzania Youth Icon (TAYI), Hon Hamad Masauni take a group photo after announcing phase two of the UNDP water project.UN
officials and members of NGO ‘Kamati ya Uhifadhi Misitu ya eneo la
Kajengwa’ pose by some of the over 200,000 trees that were planted by
the NGO through the UNDP energy conservation project.Women
from Kikwajuni, Zanzibar who will benefit from the second phase of the
project listen as the UN, the government and Tanzania Youth Icon (TAYI)
explain how they will try and ensure clean water access for them.
Focus: Water and Sanitation projectsto ‘Leave No one Behind’
The UN Resident Coordinator and
UNDP Resident Representative, Mr. Alvaro Rodriguez visits the island in a
continuation and expansion of UNDP-supported projectsin Unguja and
Pemba. Marking his tenth visit to Zanzibar, the UN Chief made several
stops in Unguja, to seeseveral water-access projects as well as an
environmental conservation project. Mr. Rodriguez is also expected to
visit schools in both Pemba and Unguja to assess their facilities ahead
of an upcomingwater and sanitation project which will involve ten
schools. Thethree-day field visit in Zanzibar is part of UN efforts to
monitor projects and meet beneficiaries in communities.
In Unguja, Mr. Rodriguez visited a
USD 90,000 water project in KijwajuniConstituency, Zanzibar Town, where
the lives of over 25,000 people have improved through the project which
facilitates access to clean water. He later visiteda USD 50,000
UNDP-supported Community Based Conservation Project in Kajengwa,
Makunduchi. The conservation project has helped over 15,000 people,
mostly women, who previously depended on firewood for cooking. They now
have access to more efficient cooking stoves. The project supported the
community in planting over 100,000 trees in the area and established 200
beehives which have helped improve nutrition and provide additional income.
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