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Facilitating high-level engagement in policy and legal process related to Social, cultural and economic issues
a. TAF mobilises consultative meetings, these meetings include:
- The review processes of National Strategic Framework (NMSF) 2008-2012, inputs were shared among members and a technical paper was developed and presented and submitted to TACAIDS. TAF also participated in the launching of the second NMSF 2008 - 2012 in Dodoma.
- TAF coordinated the input from over seventy CSOs into the AIDS Bill, which has now been passed into a law. For that reason TAF held a meeting and developed a technical paper. The technical submission paper was shared, discussed and agreed. This document was then presented to the parliamentary HIV and AIDS committee during the public hearing and it was used as a re-source by other actors including TACAIDS, Parliamentary Hearing and Foundation For Civil Society to mention a few.
- Technical input on condom programming, during the assessment and presentation of condom monitoring and evaluation reports. The research was done by TACAIDS in Dar es Salaam.
- On the platform of the Commonwealth people's forum, TAF represented the CSOs, where a number of concurrent sessions were held including health, human rights, HIV, and leadership for transformation. The theme was "Realizing Peoples Potential". The forum addressed the need for CSOs to network and advocate with one voice. This forum was an advocacy effort and was initiated to ensure the voices of CSOs were heard.
- TAF joins advocacy campaigns with international communities by holding a candle light memorial day, which was held at the TGNP grounds, served as a significant event that puts the advocacy for equal opportunities among PLHIV living in rural Tanzania into the scene. That effort hoped to bring free treatment to opportunistic diseases among PLHIV.
As part of the effort in making policy work and deepening democracy and accountability of parliament. We managed to work with the members of parliament through the coordination of Concern worldwide, Human Development Trust (HDT), Voluntary Services Overseas and CONCERN worldwide.
The discussions focused on HIV, Provision of Services, and Funding as well as issues on prevention: - TAF actively followed up the Tanzania HIV and AIDS budget, a budget expenditure of 2006/07 and allocation 2008/09 was done and presented to the member of parliaments HIV and AIDS, community development, legal affairs ,Finance and economic affairs committees, committee as a way of holding the government accountable and implementation of Joint Assistance Strategy of Tanzania .
- The analysis of the progress of HIV infection, and trend of funding in the country was undertaken. A presentation was given to the members of parliament.
- TAF has also being actively engaged in Tanzania HIV and AIDS budget tracking and
- Money flows and policy priorities should be monitored at all points of the ex-expenditure chain. In honoring the responsibilities of the CSOs (Joint Assistance Strategy of Tanzania November 2006 session 4.5) TAF and the working group (PER)of the policy forum, most of whom are TAF members, continued fol-lowing up on the HIV and AIDS expenditure analysis were done 2006 and 2007 and HIV and AIDS budget allocation 2008 and 2009.
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