LEAT received 95.9 Million Tshs from Legal Services Facility (LSF) as grants to implement a project on Advocacy for reducting economic gender based violence. This is a twelve (12) Months project started from September 2014 to August 2015, implemented in Dodoma Region at Mpwapwa specifically in six (6) villages in three Wards including Kibakwe, Ipera and Rudi. The project target groups are women and men aged 15years and above and the project is intended to benefit 150 beneficiaries in the entire districts which is 25 citizens each villages.

The main objective of the project is to create the community with fair distribution, ownership and control of economic resources. Specifically the project aimed at increasing the community awareness on Economic Gender Based Violence (EGBV) at domestic level and legal rights access to resources as well as linking women and girls with legal institutions to protect them, and respond to Economic Gender Based Violence (EGBV)
LEAT will work to create a better environment for upholding, respecting, and defending the rights of the rural women and girls in Mpwapwa district and enable them to know, advocate and defend their human rights including life to life, right to decent treatment and respect, equality before the law, right to own property, freedom association and expression right to take part in decision making process at the family, village, district and national level, Duty to enforce the law, right to privacy, freedom of movement, right to work and livelihood, right to have a family and many among others”. Said Glory Baltazari Kilawe (Advocate) who is also the coordinator for this project.
During the implementation of this project LEAT will conduct weekly sessions to peer group on EGBV and legal rights, organizing and conducting trainings of facilitators (TOF)/Peer educators on EGBV and legal rights. Conducting public sensitization meetings through theater for development, produce training manuals on EGBV as well as monitoring and evaluation of the project activities.
LEAT intervention will result to the empowerment in the aspects of Economic Gender Based Violence, Human rights and legal right in the project area. It will also lead to increase awareness on Economic Gender Based Violence, human rights and Legal Rights to communities in Mpwapwa District particularly in the targeted project villages. The project will lead to the identification and utilization of legal services in project villages necessary in combating Economic Gender Based Violence and enforcing of human right and legal rights. Not only that but also women and community members will vigorously report and take action against Economic Gender Based Violence (EGBV)and actively take part in decision making processes pertaining to the control distribution and ownership of resources in their respective villages and there will be reduced cases of Economic Gender Based Violence in project villages.

RIPOTI YA PROGRAMU YA WAKALA WA MABADILIKO

Timu ya Wanasheria Watetezi wa Mazingira (LEAT) inafanya programu ya kuiwezesha jamii kutunza Mazingira na kuibua miradi kupitia Mbinu Shirikishi ya Kujifunza kwa Vitendo (Participatory Learning and Action/People Owned Process) ambayo inasimamiwa na Asasi iitwayo Mtandao wa mazingira Tanzania  (Mazingira Network Tanzania (MANET) iliyopo Morogoro na kufadhiliwa na  Mfuko wa dunia wa wanyamapori (WWF-Norway.) MANET inafanya programu hii kwa kushirikisha Asasi mbalimbali Tanzania kwa lengo la kuwezesha jamii zote kuibua na kumiliki miradi yao wenyewe pasipo kutegemea wawekezaji au Wafadhili). MANET iliweza kuteua wakala wa mabadiliko (Young Environmentalist Trainee (YET)) kutoka kila asasi nchini Tanzania. Kutoka LEAT Bi Edina Tibaijuka ambaye ni Afisa Mazingira  na mkuu wa Idara ya  udhubiti wa taka na uchafuzi wa Mazingira. aliteuliwa kuwa  wakala wa mabadiliko(YET) na kuiwakilisha asasi kwenda kupata mafunzo hayo ya PLA/POP.

Katika harakati za kuendeleza mradi huu LEAT iliamua kutoa mafunzo haya katika kitongoji cha Majani Mapana wilaya ya Bagamoyo, mkoa wa Pwani kwasababu ni moja ya wilaya inayokumbana na changamoto ya uchafuzi wa Mazingira uliosababishwa na uwepo wa dampo katikati ya makazi ya wanajamii hao. Hivyo hali hii inazidi kurudisha nyuma hali ya utunzaji Mazingira na hali ya uchumi kwa jamii ya watu wa Majani Mapana.

Hivyo tangu mwezi Oktoba 2013 hadi hivi sasa LEAT imekuwa ikishirikiana kwa ukaribu na wanajamii wa Majani Mapana katika kutoa mafunzo ya elimu shirikishi ya kujifunza kwa vitendo (PLA/POP) ili kuhakikisha wanajamii wanaweza kutatua changamoto mbalimbali za Mazingira na kuweza kubadilisha mitazamo yao juu ya utegemezi. LEAT inaamini ifikapo mwisho wa mwaka huu ambapo ndio utakuwa mwisho wa programu hii Jamii hii itaweza kujisimamia yenyewe katika kulinda Mazingira na kuendeleza miradi mbalimbali ya utunzaji Mazingira.