To promote local governance and accountability in development management and advocacy rationale use of government budgets to achieve poverty reduction targets in Kibaha district, Tanzania. The community people (80) from rural and urban areas will be trained on pro-poor development, citizen journalism, data collection and analysis and advocacy journalism. District council leaders (10) will be trained on accountability.
What locality or neighborhood will your project focus on?
Kibaha town, Kibaha district, Tanzania
Describe the specific community with whom you will be working.
What kinds of news, stories and other content will be created?
Community development and challenges, features, investigative articles, breaking news, case studies, photos and video
To have critical analysis of news and information from reliable sources and statistics
To use emails, blogs, face book, twitter, mobile sms and digital camera photos
What technologies and digital tools do you plan to use in the trainings?
Describe the connections that you or your organization have already established that will contribute to the success of the project.
ICT expert
Community journalism expert
Photojournalism expert
Blogg and social media expert
Citizen media expert
How many participants do you think will be involved in your project?
District council officials and politicians (10)
Community people – adults, children, youth, women and disabled people (80) from rural and urban areas
100 people – 20 from district council and 80 community people from urban and rural areas in Kibaha district, Tanzania
They must be officials, leaders, councilors and politicians from the district council and community people must be permanent residents in rural and urban areas
Besides the microgrant funding, what other resources and support are you seeking for your project to ensure its success?
Technical support and backstopping during training and monitoring implementation process by trainees and our organization in project implementation of interventions
Organization
Tanzania Environment Management Catalyst (TEMACA)