Tanzania Education Network/Mtandao wa Elimu Tanzania - TEN/MET

The Fifth Quality Education Conference was wrapped up on Friday, March 16, at the Blue Pearl Hotel in Dar es Salaam. The theme of this year's conference was "Trends in Teacher Professionalism in Tanzania".

Its purpose was to bring together key education stakeholders at different levels across organizations (schools to universities and NGOs) to share ideas and experiences and to work out ways to improve the situation through advocacy work.

The proceedings of the conference are listed below, by presenter's last name.

Chediel, Enock, Ishumi, Kapinga, Kihiyo, Kimaryo, Komba, Mandore, Marietha, Meena, Mfangavo,

Mhando E., Mhando L., Mtana, Mwakubungu, Nancy & Noela, Sanga, Soko, Tilya

The Fourth Community of Practice for Learner-Centred Education took place in Dar es Salaam from December 14th to 16th, 2011. The venue was the Blue Pearl Hotel. Forty-five participants spent the three days discussing means and modes of implementing Learner-Centred education in Tanzania. This is a challenge in an environment hitherto practised only in teacher-centred education.

The papers are available at the download links below in PDF format. Some presenters came with Power Point presentations, and others gave Word documents. The presentations are arranged alphabetically below, by author's last name.

Andrew

Chipeta Deogratius Elias James Kapaya Kihiyo Kimario Kimaro Kimaryo Massawe PPT Mhando Mringi Msonde Mtana & Mpinzile Mwadui Ngwinula Nyabatake Sikudhani Ferdinand Sulusi Tweve paper Tweve PPT Winifrida

Issue 23 of the TEN/MET Newsletter is now available for download at this link.

The new version of "Performance of Civil Society Organizations in the Delivery of Quality Education in Tanzania" for 2011 is now available on the website, at this hyperlink.

The paper describes the experience of CSOs’ contribution to improving the quality of education in Tanzania. The focus is to highlight CSOs’ performance in the last fiscal year in terms of achievements, challenges, lessons learned, recommendations for action, and prospects. TEN/MET is a CSO member organization based network consisting of 147 active members settled in the nine working zones. The majority of them are in Northern Zone (44%) and fewest are in the South East Zone (1 % members, Refer to Figure 1 in the discussion).

TEN/MET's active members met for an Extra-Ordinary General Meeting on September 22, 2011 at the Tanzania Episcopal Conference grounds in Kurasini, Dar es Salaam. The most important outcome of the meeting was the election of a new Board of Directors. The composition of the new Board follows.

New Board of Directors elected September 22, 2011

Organization	Representative		Position	Zone
Oxfam GB	Mary Soko		Member/Chairperson	International
Pestallozi Children's Foundation	Beatrice Nalingingwa		Member	International
Action Aid International Tanzania	Aida Kiangi		Member	International
Taaluma Women's Group	Zippora Sheikilango		Member	Dar es Salaam
Jumuiya endelevu Bagamoyo	Sweetbert Mushobozi		Member	Eastern
Tushiriki	Jansi Sinkamba		Member	Southern Highlands
Songea Intermediary Gender Network	Sairis Chiwangu		Member	Southern
Kifumwa Garden	Sauli Peter		Member/Vice Chairperson	Northern
Kigoma Development Promotion Agency	Leonard Soza		Member	Western
Adilisha Child Youth Development & Family	Evodius Baruhongerachi		Member	Lake
Information Centre on Disability	Frederick Nkatanbo		Member	People living with Disabilities
Invited Professional			Vacant
Tanzania Education Network	Cathleen Sekwao		Member/Secretariat	Secretariat