Areas of expertise & Fields of activity:
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Economic and Social:
Sports for Peace and Development
Women/gender Equality
Youth
Gender Issues and Advancement of Women:
Advocacy and outreach
Capacity building
Education and training of women
Human rights of women
Indigenous women
Information and communication technologies
Institutional mechanisms for the advancement of women
Men and boys
Millennium Development Goals
Policy advice
Research
Service provision
The girl child
Trafficking in women and girls
Violence against women
Women and HIV/AIDS
Women and armed conflict
Women and health
Women and poverty
Women and the economy
Women and the environment
Women and the media
Women and the media
Women in power and decision-making
Public Administration:
Governance and Public Administration
Socio-Economic Governance and Management
Social Development:
Employment
Social policy
Youth
Sustainable Development:
Capacity-building
Education
Freshwater
Gender equality
Partnerships
Rural Development
Sustainable development for Africa
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| Geographic scope: |
National
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| Country of activity: |
United Republic of Tanzania
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| Millennium Development Goals: |
Promote gender equality and empower women
Develop global partnership for development
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| Mission statement: |
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| Year established: |
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| Year of registration: |
1993 |
| Organizational structure: |
3.0 Organisational Structure
3.1 Ownership
3.1.1 TGNP—MTANDAO is a closed membership organisation. Its members are bound by a common concern for social gender justice guided by transformative feminist principles of a just society. Membership types and modalities are stipulated in TGNP—MTANDAO constitution and Trust Deed.
3.1.2 TGNP—MTANDAO is a public institution whose quest is to build a social movement for positive change. In various ways through its organisational entities it shall forge alliances, partnerships and affiliations with other agencies, organisations, networks, coalitions and communities. Ownership of processes and outcomes falling within those partnerships is shared by all concerned entities as stipulated in respective agreements and memoranda of understanding whether binding or loose.
3.1.3 In as far as TGNP—MTANDAO draws public resources, ownership to its activities implemented on behalf of and for public interest rests with, and it is accountable to the public for outcomes of those activities and prudent use of resources thus accrued.
3.2 Consultative and accountability structure
3.2.1 The TGNP—MTANDAO Annual General Meeting (AGM) is the highest policy-making organ. Its oversight mandate is delegated to TGNP--MTANDAO Board of Trustees which proposes policy shifts, revision and supervises policy implementation.
3.2.2 TGNP—MTANDAO Board of Trustees may delegate part of its mandate to its Inter-Agency Coordinating Committee comprising of Executives of TGNP—MTANDAO Trust and all its subsidiaries; and/or any of the Governing bodies of its subsidiaries.
3.3.3 The TGNP-MTANDAO Board of Trustees may institute operational mechanisms to enhance its oversight function within the approved framework and mandate. These may include but are not limited to putting in place standing and/or ad hoc sub-committees and working teams drawing inputs from various segments of its constituency; mandated to implement specific tasks provided that such sub-committees and working teams operate under the auspicious of and report to the Board of Trustees through its Inter-Agency Coordinating Committee.
3.3.4 Each of the TGNP—MTANDAO subsidiaries shall institute their own governance organs in a form of Governing or Advisory Boards or Councils depending on the legal provisions of their formalisation as approved by the TGNP—MTANDAO Members General Meeting. Such bodies may also institute mechanisms in a manner provided in clause 2.6.3 to which they shall delegate functions within the limits of their scope and mandates.
3.3.5 For purposes of maintaining harmony in the interpretation of the TGNP—MTANDAO vision and mission; and to avoid parallels and contradictions in discharging respective mandates; and in upholding the image and identity of the organisation, subsidiary organisations shall be represented in each other’s governing organ and share main deliberations in mutually agreed methods and procedures recommended by the Inter-Agency Coordinating Committee and approved by the Board of Trustees.
3.3.6 TGNP—MTANDAO Board of Trustees and through it all governing bodies of TGNP—MTANDAO subsidiaries are accountable to the AGM and other legally convened ad hoc and Extra Ordinary Members General Meetings to which they derive their mandates. This shall be explicitly stated in their respective constitutions and legal frameworks governing their registration.
3.3.7 Management and administrative mechanism of the TGNP—MTANDAO Trust and each of the TGNP—MTANDAO ‘Group’ organisations shall be guided by this Organisational Policy Framework presented in two parts:
Part I: Organisational Policy and Charter of Principles
Part II: Organisational Framework and Management Guide |
| Number and type of members: |
(i) Ordinary Members [Limited to 30 individuals]
(ii) Honorary Members [Limited to 20 members]
(iii) Associate Members [Limited to 20 Partner CSOs and Affiliated Networks] |
| Affiliation with NGO networks: |
FEMNET,FEMACT,EASSI,ESRF,REPOA |
| Funding structure: |
Membership fees or dues
Fees for education and training services
Fees for providing consulting or research services
Foreign and international grants
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