Dakama, Tanzania

Achievements
Recently, Dakama Area Development Programme (ADP) has:

Health
• Trained 20 traditional birth attendants and 20 village health workers in modern hygienic techniques, and provided materials for the birth attendants
  

HIV and AIDS

• Formed five community care coalitions and trained members to counsel and support children and adults affected by HIV and AIDS
• Facilitated community care coalitions to provide educational support for 280 children
• Trained 26 teachers to use HIV and AIDS education materials in class
• Trained 75 primary school students to educate others about HIV and AIDS
  

Education

• Provided 200 school desks
• Held refresher-training workshops for 23 teachers and 50 school committee members
• Constructed four houses so teachers can stay near the schools they teach in
  

Water

• Installed two rainwater-harvesting systems on top of schools and taught people from two villages to use them
• Trained 60 members of 23 water user groups to manage the groups and water sources in the long term
  

Agricultural and economic development

• Provided half a tonne of improved maize seed for farmers
• Trained 38 women to keep poultry
• Provided ox-ploughs at a subsidised price for income-generating groups
• Trained 25 people to keep bees and provided them with bees and modern beehives on a revolving loan basis
• Established five tree nurseries to provide seedlings to combat deforestation; 3,000 seedlings were planted
• Trained 132 leaders of income-generating groups in management and book-keeping
• Assisted five income-generating groups to write group constitutions
• Facilitated 43 income-generating groups to register with the district government
  

Leadership development

• Held workshops to train 60 community leaders about good governance, management and ownership of development programmes
• Reviewed the constitution of a community-based organisation and assisted the organisation to obtain official registration