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.
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.
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, Zanzibar
UN, 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.
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