Two records - first Pascal Maziku, secretary; then Donatian Marusu, coordinator.
MINUTES OF AFCONET MEETING
Venue: Maktaba Hall
Date:
27th/10/2007
INTRODUCTION:
This report expresses the meeting which was conducted at
Maktaba Hall(National Library hall) on 27th October, 2007.
Agenda of the Meeting:
* Opening of the meeting
* Reading of the minutes of the previous meeting held on
29th September 2007
* Session: TOOL ON ORGANIZATION SELF ASSESMENT FOR
AFCONET AND MEMBER ORGANIZATION.
* Report on Exchange visits
* Different reports from Foundation-London
* AOB
* Closing of the meeting
1.0: Opening of the meeting:
The meeting was officially opened at 9.30 am by the
Acting chairperson Mr. Steven Milambo.
2.0: Reading of minutes of the previous meeting held on
29th September 2007:
Following the introductory speech, the Secretary read
minutes of the previous meeting of 27th September, 2007.
3.0 Matters Arising
* Child Beach Program preparation on process and
finalizing budgeting and beach survey by the preparatory committee.
* The process of Opening the Network Account was reported
to be well conducted .
4.0: Session 1. TOOL ON ORGANIZATION SELF ASSESMENT FOR
AFCONET AND MEMBER ORGANIZATION (Prepared by NGO Resource Centre and TANGO)
The session was facilitated by the Network Coordinator
Mr. Donatian Marusu and the following topics were covered: Assessment tool on
leadership which has got 11 subsessions (The foundation of the CSO,
Membership/Constituency,Governing Organ, Crosscutting issues, Sustainability).
The tool is alike Tim Jacksons Organization Assessment tool hence it was some
how easy for participants to follow. Toipc 2 was on Management and subtopics
covered were: Organization structure, Org. Policies and procedures,
management’s capabilities) The third topic 3. was on program planning and
management – Strategic Planning this had the following subtopics: Strategic
Planning, Monitoring and Evaluation and Documentation of Lessons). Topic 4 was
on The Human Resource, this covered the
following subtopics: Human Respource, Volunteers, Human Resource Development
and Human Resource Management. Topic 5 was on Financial Management, the
subtopics covered were on Sources of Income, Budgeting, Accounting, and
Financial Reporting.
Topic 6 was on Infrastructure which included the
following subtopics: Equipement and materials, Stock Control and Procurement.
Topic 7 was on External Relations and covered the following subtopics: Society,
Government, Donnors and Media. Topic 8 which was the last topic was on Building
Coalitions, the subtopics covered were participation in Network activities and
lobbying and advocacy.
It was beneficial to Network members because this topics
after were clear to members, the facilitator requested that members should use
the tool on the very day to Assess the Network, i.e using the Assessment Tool
to Assess AFCONET. All members were given opportunity to do so in order that
opinions will be collected from their free assessment of the Network and the
Acting Chairperson assured participants that a compiled report about the
assessment will be displayed in our website.
4.0: Exchange visits reports:
Seven Exchange Visit report forms were submitted even
though the Exchange visit
Uzima visited Chimaba and leant how to empower out of
school youth,
Sageta visited Redhouse and TWAFAHA, they learnt that
despite the smaller office of TWAFAHA, they do a lot in serving the community.
At Red house they also learnt that children can be empowered on various skills
like leadership for them to stand on their own.
Vumwe no exchange visit this month.
CHAKUPAU no exchange visit this month
TUKOLENE no exchange visit this month
WOYONA visited CHAKUPAU,
TAWOSU no exchange visit this month
CHIYOWONET no exchange visit this month
TWAFAHA no exchange visit this month
RED HOUSE visited SIYOPE (leant about OVC Psychosocial
care and support)
YLRF no exchange visit this month
WOLISU no exchange visit this month
IYANA no exchange visit this month
YOPAC no exchange visit this month
GOOD SAMARITAN no exchange visit done this month
SOCAC no exchange visit this month
MSWS visited CWCA and leant how to empower widows on
legal rights. They also visited NICE where they leant on how to organize school
programs on self reliance
POFIDESO no exchange visits done this month because they
visited already 6 groups.
NB. The exchange visit spreadsheet has reached an end of
its programming hence three exchange visit forms which have been submitted
today couldn’t be recorded. The details of the forms are listed below:
* Exchange Visit No. 292 of 25/10/2007 WOYONA visited
CHAKUPAU for 3 hours and Joyce Masami and Hadija Emidi from WOYONA did the
visit
* Exchange Visit No.293 of 24/10/2007 MSWS visited CWCA
for 3 hours and Samweli Kigeso and David Mussa from MSWS did the visit
* Exchange visit No.294 of 23/10.2007 MSWS visited NICE
for 3:15. The following did the exchange visit Samweli Kigeso and David Mussa.
6.0: AOB
Feedback about Openning a New Bank Account to Baclays
Bank was given by Jovita Makoko that at the Bank
an introductory letter from the WEO where the office is
and a seal by an Advocate (In this case CWCA) will . It was suggested that the
signatories should fill in the form from the WEO or CHIYOWONET to take charge
to ensure that we get the letter. All other documents were reported to be ready
submitted.
Meeting report about Beach Children program. It was
reported that a total of Tshs 1,200,000 was estimated to be the budget of the
beach program. Even tough the seal allocated fund for the beach program was
reported to be Tshs.600,000.
The suggested Beach was mentioned to be COCO Beach, even
though other beaches were suggested including MSASANI Beach and or MIKADI Beach at Kigamboni to avoid the highlighted
risk of going to COCO Beach written as a concern below.
The committee suggested that every group can be given
Tshs.20,000 for transport so that the 5 representative children from the member
partners will be picked straight to the beach. The suggestion was put forward
for further discussion and final decisions will be put in the next meeting.
In order to make the program lively, it was suggested to
make the program child friendly program with for instance educational games and
competitions.
Report from Tim Jackson.
Report from Tim Jackson was read and clarification was
given by the coordinator Mr. Donatian Marusu.
As regards to the visits by Donatian to the different
groups, Donatian promised to make a simple timetable which will be implement
able and convenient group members too.
A list of groups to be visited and a draft Timetable was
suggested as follows:
DRAFT TIME TABLE FOR THE COORDINATOR VISIT TO GROUPS -
2007
Date
TIME
Group
Kinondoni Route
4/11/2007
9:30am – 11:30am
IYANA
10:30am – 12:30
TAWOSU
1:00pm – 3:00pm
CHIMABA
3:30PM – 6:00pm
TUPENDANE
10/11/2007
9:30am – 11:30am
TWAFAHA
Ubungo Route
3:00pm – 5:00pm
RED HOUSE
6:00pm – 8:00pm
GOOD SAMARITAN
10/11/2007
9:00pm – 11:00am
MOMS IN TOUCH
Kariakoo Route
3:00pm – 5:00pm
YOPAC
6:00pm – 8:00pm
CHIYOWONET
11/11/2007
8:00am – 10:00am
CHAKUPAU
Temeke Route
10:30am -12:30pm
TUKOLENE
1:00pm – 3:00pm
SAGETA
3:30pm – 6:00pm
POVERTY FOGHTERS
17/11/2007
8:30pm – 10:30am
POFIDESO
Kawe Route
11:00am – 1:00pm
MSWS
2:00pm – 4:00pm
NICE
5:00pm – 7:30pm
WOYONA
18/11/2007
8:30am – 10:30
YLRF
Magomeni Route
11:30am – 1:30pm
VUMWE
3:00pm – 5:00pm
WOLISU
5:30pm – 6:00pm
PREVENTIVE
24/11/2007
8:00am – 10:00am
SIYOPE
10:30am – 12:30pm
CISO
3:00pm – 5:00pm
SOCAC
25/11/2007
9:30am – 11:30am
UPENDO GROUP
Mkuranga Route
2:30pm – 4:00pm
UZIMA CENTRE
As regards to those who would like to have special
appointment with Mr. Tim Jackson in December 2007, the following requested to
be listed;
* CHKUPAU, VUMWE, TUPENDANE, MSWS, POFIDESO and YLRF
FUTURE PLANS OF THE NETWORK
* It was suggested that we need to make as a special
agenda in the next meeting to discuss more about the Network Sustainability.
This followed a report that in two years to come it might be phasing out of the
funding from London.
* Selfishness was warned to be the major threat of the
Network.
CONCERN:
One participant raised the issue of security at the COCO
Beach because it is the Beach where local people who cant afford going to the
other expensive beach hence there is a risk to the children if they will be
mixed with other children and peopleat the peach. It was a concern that we
might fail to control the children.
Challenges:
* Children are scartered
* A common transport
* Risk of taking children to the Beach
* Security wise
7.0: The end:
The meeting was closed at 3:00 pm by the Chairperson.
The next meeting will be on 24th November, 2007.
Prepared by
Pascal J.Maziku
AFCONET
Secretary
REPORT OF THE 1OTH AFCONET MEETING
AT NATINAL LIBRARY CENTER
27TH OCTBER 2007
The meeting started around 9:30 a.m. preceded by
registration and warm up tea. The meeting was chaired by deputy chairman,
Steven Milambo
Attendance: by the
start of the meeting there were 20 members but by the end the number increased
to 27 of which 22 were the groups' representatives.
Debriefing of the past meeting:
The minutes of the past meeting were read by the
secretary, Pascal Maziku and the concerns raised were clarified.
Exchange Visits:
1. Tupendane: represented by Rose Swai, did not visit any
group in this month
2. Uzima: represented by V. Oganda, Visited Chimaba Sanaa
Group and learned how they help youth for self-reliant initiatives
3. Sageta, represented by Jacob, Visited two groups: i)
Twafaha and learned how they run a project on embroidery ii) Red house, and
learned how they help to educate young children of different ages with an
approach of child-to–child learning
4. Vumwe, represented by Mwanahamisi kivule, did not
visit any group in this month
5. Chakupau, represented by Tunu Mponda and Jumanne
Ngayama, did not visit any group in this month
6. Tukolene, represented by Peter Simon, did not visit
any group in this month
7. Woyona, represented by Joyce Masami, visited Chakupau
and learned how they help to care orphans by providing them with school
materials
8. Tawosu, represented by Hadija Hemed, did not visit any
group in this month
9. Moms in Touch, represented by Grace Nuru, did not
visit any group in this month
10. Chiyowonet, represented by Emmy Kakwaya, did not
visit any group in this month
11. Twafaha, represented by Halima Ibrahim, did not visit
any group in this month
12. Red house, represented by Theobald Mtema, visited
Siyope and learned how they assist children through counselling, also how they
initiated project of renting a meeting
hall.
13. YLRF, represented by Happiness Charles, did not visit
any group in this month
14. Wolisu, represented by Ismail mahamudu, did not visit
any group in this month
15. Iyana, represented by Simon King’ung’e, did not visit
any group in this month
16. Yopac, represented by Stella Miti, did not visit any
group in this month
17. Good Samaritan, represented by Winston, did not visit
any group in this month
18. Socac, represented by Tabu Saadan, did not visit any
group in this month
19. MSWS, represented by David Musa, visited two groups:
i). CWCA and learned how they help widows and OVC on legal issues for free. ii)
NICE and learned how they prepare
seminars to equip children and youth with self employment strategies and also
how to write good funding proposals
20. Pofideso, represented by Shaban Madega, did not visit
any group in this month
21. Chimaba, represented by Azaria Mjengwa, did not visit
any group in this month
22. NICE, represented by Chrispine Mwansanga, did not
visit any group in this month.
Response to Network Operation report for October, 2007
* Site visits: during the meeting the members agreed that
the visit be carried on week ends as suggested by Donatian and any possible
convenient time. The following time was set and may be followed:
N0
Date
Route
Time/Group
Time/Group
Time/Group
Time/Group
1
3/11/2007
Kinondoni
8:00-10:00
Iyana
10:30-12:30
Tawosu
1:00-3:00
Chimaba
4:00-6:00
Tupendane
2
4/11/2007
Ubungo
9:30-11:30
Twafaha
3:00-5:00
Redhouse
6:00-8:00
Good Samaritan
3
10/11/2007
Ilala
9:00-11:00
Moms in Touch
12:00-2:00
CWCA
3:00-5:00
Yopac
6:00-8:00
Chiyowonet
4
11/11/2007
Temeke/Tandika
8:00-10:00
Chakupau
10:30-12:30
Tukolene
1:00-3:00
Sageta
4:00-6:00
Poverty FG
5
17/11/2007
Kawe
8:30-10:30
Pofideso
11:00-1:00
MSWS
2:00-4:00
NICE
5:30-7:30
Woyona
6
18/11/2007
Magomeni
8:00-10:00
YLRF
12:00-2:00
Vumwe
3:00-11:00
Wolisu
6:00-8:00
Preventive HCF
7
24/11/2007
Sinza/Bagamoyo
8:00-10:00
Siyope
10:30-12:30
CISO
3:00-5:00
SOCAC
8
25/11/2007
Kiwalani/Mukuranga
9:30-11:30
Upendo G.
2:30-4:30
Uzima C.
NB: emergencies can be accommodated if the group gives
prior information. E.g. Iyana requested my Visit to be on 7th Nov. 2007 at 5:30
p.m. instead of 3/11/2007. I can arrange with them clearly and plan to visit
them at the named time.
I hope to send this time table to the members for their
reference after you approve it.
* Groups that would like to have meeting with Tim during
his visit to Tanzania on December
1. Chakupau:
2. Vumwe:
3. Tupendane:
4. MSWS:
5. Pofideso: Subject: on the future of our Network
6. YLRF – subject: on Fund raising and Network
sustainability
NB: other groups requested to deliver their subject after
they consult other members in their group, hence I will send you ASAP when I
get them.
* Opening Account at Barclays Bank, report from the
treasurer says, most of the wanted documents have been presented to the bank
and she expects to complete the process by next week.
Others:
* Children picnic: the committee is working on it and is
expected to be done on November.
* We need to document picture events while writing
monthly meeting reports or any network
event
* Need to change caterer due to delay of lunch, services
and menu incomplete e.g. in this meeting lunch was served at 3:45 p.m.
* Network constitution: every group needs to have a copy
of original Constitution and a certificate of registration for ease reference
* The treasurer performed well her duty of paying the
exchange visit costs
Comments:
The members were requested this time to be more
cooperative during the site visits to make the exercise more successful
End:
The meeting ended around 4:45 p.m.
Prepared by:
Donatian Marusu
Coordinator
30/10/2007