TEN/MET 2018-2022 Education for All Strategy - 'NS' Tanzania Education Network or Mtandao wa Elimu Tanzania TEN/MET 2018-2022 Utbildning för alla strategi Education sector is wide and challenges are so many. TEN/MET is aware of the challenges including the poor learning outcomes as reflected by poor pass rates in the national examinations at basic education level (primary and lower secondary education), poor literacy and numeracy skills of children, poor livelihood and poor implementation of education policies at all levels. TEN/MET as a coordination agency for CSOs education sector in Tanzania is only going to focus on few key activities that would impact in improving quality and equality of education sector in Tanzania. 

1. Coordinating education sector by assessing and ultimately bring togather all actors in education to share challenges and success to better inform policy initiatives at higher level. Embassy of Sweden is aware on presence of many actors in education and recognizes their contributions in the sector. 

2. To build a strong national and international network for CSOs to engage. TEN/MET as a secretariat has been able to recruit 200 member organizations and at the same time within the five year strategic timeframe TEN/MET will continuously assess legibility and activeness of such organizations to ensure that it works with right partners, focus, documentation and aspirations. Different from last strategic plan 2015 - 2017, the new TENMET strategy 2018 - 2022 breaks members in to zones and thematic area to allow for prioritization and capacity development initiatives. 

3. To adress areas of education financing gap, inclusive education through evidence based research. As a secretatiat, TEN/MET for next five years has positioned itself to utilize research and experiences from other member organizations to appeal to the government on behalf of education sector to expand incluciveness and education budget in the sector. TEN/MET is aware of the recent inclusive strategy developed by the government with exclusion of clear articulations on how specific affected groups are going to be reached. For next five years, TENMET has indicated to capitalize on documenting gaps and sharing best practices that will promote quality and equality education in Tanzania.

4. The fourth area is enhancing effective dialogue and participation of CSOs in education partners development group and ESDC meetings. TEN/MET for next five years has innovatively designed a specific budget line to allow member organizations to meet, review, analyze and comment on proposals or government documents that are submitted to donor group for review. 

The intervention’s total budget is 11.3 billion TZSH for five years, out of which the Embassy of Sweden contribution is expected to be around 5 billion and the rest 6.3b will be fundraised by TENMET from other donors. Already there are donors that have committed fund to TEN/MET but not as in longer term as Embassy of Sweden has done. CSEF- Civil Society Education Fund has confirmed support of 260,040,000 TZSH for each year of the new strategy. Porticus who has been funding TENMET last year has also committed 186,480,000 for 2018. Another committed fund for 2018 is the LANES support from government Worth of 761,113,255 and also from another donor called APHRC with 30,000,000 support. TENMET is positive that all the donors who are currently funding them will continue to do so and their expectation is high for other potential donors like NORAD, DFID, GIZ and Equality Now. Tanzanias utbildningssektor är bred och utmaningarna är många. TEN/MET är medvetna om de utmaningar som finns i sektorn; Få klarar de nationella proven som ges i grundskolan, få elever har en god läsförståelse och ännu färre klarar av simpla matematiska uppgifter. Även på policynivå har Tanzania problem med både formulering och implementering. TEN/MET koordinerar de civilsamhällesorganisationer som är aktiva inom utbildningssektorn i Tanzania. Genom att fokusera på fyra områden ska TEN/MET bidra till en ökad kvalitet och jämställdhet inom utbildningssektorn. 

1. Genom att koordinera de civilsamhällesorganisationer som finns inom utbildningssektorn kan organisationerna dela med sig av sina utmaningar och framgångar för att effektivt påverka policy på hög nivå. Ambassaden har kontakt med flertalet av civilsamhällesorganisationerna inom TEN/MET och deras bidrag till utbildningssektorn är stor. 

2. Att bygga ett starkt nationellt och internationellt nätverks där civilsamhällesorganisationer kan samlas. Över 200 civilsamhällesorganisationer är medlemmar i TEN/METs och den nya strategin syftar delvis till att analysera medlemmarnas aktivitets, för att se till så att TEN/MET samarbetar med rätt organisationer, har rätt focus, dokumentation och vision. Till skillnad från föregående den strategiska planen för 2015-2017, så kommer den nya strategin för 2018 – 2022 att dela upp medlemmarna i zoner för att kunna priorietara och koordinera kapacitetsbyggnad. 

3. Att påverka de finanseringsgap som finns inom utbildningssektorn genom evidensbaserad forskning. TEN/MET har de senaste åren positionerat sig för att använda forskning och erfarenheter från dess medlemmar för att påverka regeringen att utveckla en inkluderande utbildning samt att öka regeringens budget för utbildningssektorn. TEN/MET är medvetna om att regeringens nya strategi för en inkluderande utbildning exkluderar specifika grupper, så som unga mödrar. För de kommande fem åren strävar TEN/MET efter att brygga dokumentationsgap för att främja en kvalitativ och jämställd utbildning i Tanzania. 

4. Att skapa en effektiv dialog och ökat deltagande av civilsamhällesorganisationer i givargruppen för utbildningsfrågor samt ESDC möten. TEN/MET har skapat en specifik budgetlinje för att tillåta att medlemmasorganisationerna kommer att mötas för att analysera och kommentara regeringens förslag och strategier för de kommande fem åren. 

Budgeten för de kommande fem åren uppgår till 11.3 miljarder TZS. Ambassaden kommer att bidra med ca 5 miljarder TSH. De resterande 6.3 miljarderna kommer TEN/MET att söka från andra givare. The long term goal of TEN/MET is to see a national education system that embraces quality education for all. TENMET is an umbrella organization with almost 200 member CSOs working in education sector in Tanzania. Since it is a member based organization, its intended outcomes are divided into two connected categories.  

Secretariat. 
The outcome number 1 focusses on building institutional capacity of the organization and the board to be able to play effective oversight role. The new strategy 2018 - 2022 aims at recruiting new board members with education and thematic background. To blend the strategy with right skills, TENMET is also going to recruit new people over time to competitively navigate safely in a politically changing environment. TEN/MET believes that the long term goal of ensuring national education system is embracing quality education for all will not be sustainable if as an institution does not equip itself better to confornt realities on the ground.  

As a Network 
There are four intended outcome to be achieved; To develop CSOs capacity, to strengthen the network, conduct evidence based research and lastly join hands with other CSOs to do advocacy. TEN/MET will have CSOs equipped with relevant skills, CSOs as network will get connected to regional and international affiliations and jointly with members TENMET will generate knowledge to inform policy change in education sector in Tanzania.  During the time of TENMET appraisal, Tanzania' largest share of the national budget went to infrastructure and education sector is the second. According to Ministry of Finance Sector Analysis (2017/2018), The Ministry of works, communication and infrastructure has 5,541,3 billion TZSH while ministry of education has 4,706,4. Again; Interestingly, despite the increase in enrollment since 2016, education sector budget is decreasing from 16% in 2016/17 to 15% in 2017/18. One of the TEN/MET's advocacy strategy is to challenge the government to consider education as high in the agenda and increase national annual budget allocation for education sector.