By Nneka Nwogwugwu
Tanzania’s Legal Services Facility (LSF) launched its urban legal empowerment program aimed at addressing issues such as environmental rights, women’s economic rights, housing, and labour.
To facilitate implementation of this program, LSF partnered with urban-based organizations and provides funding to that effect, and in so doing enabling these organizations by extension to contribute to LSF’s key results areas.
The “Wanawake na Ajira” project which is being implemented by the Women in Law and Development Africa (WiLDAF) in Dar es Salaam addresses labour rights challenges facing women, youth and girls employed in the industrial sector in the region.
Under this project several factories have installed preventive mechanisms against all forms of violence and discrimination in the workplace, as further evidenced by requests from 12 manufacturing businesses in Dar es Salaam to develop anti-sexual harassment policies for their workplaces.
Another commendable achievement of the project has been a one-year plan that was developed by the Ubungo WCPC to effectively address violence and harassment against women in the workplace, All Africa reports.
WiLDAF’s National Coordinator Anna Kulaya says, “Primarily we want to see women benefitting from available opportunities and resources around the country.
“ A project such as this needs further support so that we can realize even bigger outcomes, but also that it should be expanded beyond Dar es Salaam to include other regions where there are manufacturing activities and ultimately improve the work conditions of many more people”.
