Twaweza Tanzania Program Support  2021-2024 Twaweza East Africa Twaweza East Africa är en östafrikansk icke-statlig organisation som är verksam i Kenya,
Tanzania och Uganda. Den är också registrerad i Tanzania i enlighet med lagen om
icke-statliga organisationer från 2002 som en oberoende organisation med
registreringsnumret: no.00NGO/R2000422. Beslutet om omregistrering är ett resultat av
regeringens utfärdande av en landsomfattande instruktion som kräver att alla icke-statliga
organisationer genomför kontroller och omregistrerar sig i enlighet med den nya lagen
om ändring av lagen om icke-statliga organisationer från 2019. I samband med denna
omregistrering fattade Twaweza ett beslut om att separera sitt arbete med förvaltning
från utbildningsprogrammet. UWEZO som formellt var en komponent i Twawezas
utbildningsprogram ändrades till en oberoende organisation med egen
organisationsstruktur, ledarskap och registrering. Nuvarande struktur består av UWEZO Twaweza is an East African NGO legally operating in Kenya, Tanzania and Uganda. It
is also registered in Tanzania under NGO Act of 2002 as an independent organization
with registration no.00NGO/R2000422. The decision for reregistration resulted from
government's issueing countrywide instruction that required all NGO to perform
verification and to reregister in compliance with the new misceleneous NGO amendment
Act of 2019. In this process of reregistration, Twaweza also made a decision to separate
its governance work from education program. UWEZO which was formally known as a
Twaweza's education program copmponent changed to an independent organization
with its own organization structure, leadership and registration. There is now UWEZO
as an education organization and Twaweza which entirely focuses on implementing
governance strategy. 1. Citizens have the ability, willingness and opportunity to articulate their problems, come together to discuss them, express their views in the public sphere and take civic actions to address these challenges. They are acting, organising for change, and they use multiple strategies to do so. Twaweza is working through partners and directly to train, mentor, equip and inspire local change agents to address locally
defined problems. Twaweza supports communities to problematize well and at the structural causes behind the local challenges, and ultimately promote more inclusive and active local governance structures.


2. Local and national government agencies operate in ways that take account of citizen concerns, voices and civic action, and are able and driven to act in response. These practices are slowly taking root and diffusing beyond the immediate community and into national discourse as Twaweza is working to amplify these stories, voices and ideas into public and policy debates and to persuade authorities to be responsive through advocacy and litigation.


3. Civic space is less restricted in regard to basic respect for free expression, association and assembly; access to information; and established rule of law, as Twaweza, directly and in concert with diversecoalitions, amplifies citizen perspectives, stories and challenges through media and directly to government officials, mobilises citizens and civil society to undertake joint actions, and engages in selective defensive litigation against government violations of rights.