The objective of advocacy club is to increase awareness on child rights and gender equality to children and adults in the communities. The advocacy clubs have helped girls and boys to have self -confidence to speak out among peers, family and in the community for their rights and impact other children. The main activities under advocacy clubs are conducting weekly club meetings where they learn about child rights and gender equality, they develop child right and gender equality messages for IEC materials like postures, writing in the advocacy note board which are hanged in the school walls and outside in the trees, conducting child rights class dialogues, preparing and sharing child rights and gender equality speeches during schools’ assembly meetings, preparing songs, poems and dramas etc for performing as school level and community level like during the organized events, parents meetings, child celebration days etc.

SUCCESS STORIES

Forced Early Marriage and Pregnancies

Achievements

Increased awareness on child rights and gender equality

 to children and adults around 500,000+ in Dar es salaam and Pwani Regions through child clubs.

Child Rights & Gender Equality

Formulated 21 child rights and gender equality advocacy clubs in primary and secondary schools. The clubs are organized, led and managed by children themselves.

Distributed child rights and gender equality IEC Materials

 like postures, billboards, stickers etc to schools and communities. The contents are developed by child clubs.

Conducted child led-campaign events in schools and communities

 on child rights and gender equality