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RELI Tanzania Country Lead, Dr. Maryam Jaffar Ismail was invited to join an online youth dialogue hosted by Zanzibar Youth's Talk, a youth-led organization that sparks conversation to bridge the gap that exists between young people from different walks of life, youth organizations, and decision-makers. Zanzibar Youth’s Talk amplifies youth voices on various issues they care about, identifies solutions, and fosters critical creative skills and a passion to make a difference in Zanzibar. The theme of the discussion was “The Role of youth in ensuring socio-economic transformation in Zanzibar, Tanzania” under the motto “We Rise, by Lifting Others". Dr. Maryam was among two young panelists from Zanzibar, Mustafa Shariff (youth activist) and Ahmada Suleiman (SDGs champion). After her keynote presentation which set the tone for the discussion and contributions from both panelists and participants, a set of key messages for unlocking youth’s potential, recommendations, and questions were raised by participants.
Key questions; “Do Youth understand that they have a role to play in socio-economic transformation in Zanzibar, Tanzania? What are the roles of youth in ensuring socio-economic transformation in Zanzibar, Tanzania? Is the environment conducive to support youth exercise their roles in ensuring socio-economic transformation in Zanzibar? What should be done to support youth in the quest of exercising their roles? Do the youth understand that they have a role to play in socio-economic transformation in Zanzibar, Tanzania?
Key recommendations include promoting continuous communication and sharing of information among all youth and youth stakeholders, and the government to work collaboratively in creating a conducive environment for youth to exercise their roles and be involved in decision making. This also includes involving Civil Society Organizations (CSOs) to work together to reach youth who are less privileged in utilizing the existing technologies and social media platforms such as zoom. It encourages youth-led organizations to organize youth to youth capacity-building training across Zanzibar that will help them network and co-create learning together while urging young people to be resilient and create their own platform.
Key messages focused on five aspects that can help in supporting youth to realize their roles in socioeconomic transformation; transformational leadership, prioritization, industrialization strategies, change of mindset, and grab emerging opportunities.
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On Monday, May 10, members of the Uganda Leadership team held another meeting following that of May 4th, to finalize some unfinished issues. Notably, members co-reviewed the draft agenda of the RELI Uganda semi-annual convening scheduled to take place on 3 - 4 June 2021. The semi-annual convening aims to enable members to reflect upon cluster strengths, weaknesses, challenges, and emerging opportunities. Following this, members discussed possible ways to fill the gap of the RELI Country Facilitator. |
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On Friday, May 14, the Lifeskills cluster held a catch-up meeting with the purpose of preparing for the RELI Uganda semi-annual convening. Members brainstormed on issues of interest that they intend to share during the cluster presentation sessions. These include updates on the Assessment of Lifeskills and Values in East Africa (ALiVE), research, partnerships, advocacy, and learning. In addition, they discussed ways to finalize the Lower Secondary Curriculum research among others. They are expected to convene once again on May 21. |
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The learner-centered teaching thematic group (LCT) met on May 11. The meeting focused on refining the 2021 workplan and finalizing details of the June - Kenya country convening.
The teacher coaching and mentorship manual consultant’s contract was ready and work has begun. This activity is a follow-up of the 2020 KICD – RELI partnership whose objective is to develop coaching and mentorship guidelines. The output from this activity is a report on the Ministry of Education Mentorship policy for early learning and basic education to understand its implementation modalities, best practices/case studies from across RELI Members and beyond on coaching, key lessons, themes, and principles for supporting coaching. This will be a desk/literature review assignment.
Dignitas and KICD also held an orientation meeting on May 13 to introduce a three-month engagement where Dignitas will be facilitating sessions for KICD staff on strategies of teacher coaching and support.
The Equity and Inclusion thematic group met on May 12 to deliberate on their work plan as well as plan for the upcoming convening.
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