Project Location and Background Sample Clauses

Project Location and Background. Children Care Development Organization (CCDO) is located in Iringa town of Iringa region- Tanzania. It is located between latitudes 6° 55¹ and 10 ° 30¹ south of the Equator and between longitudes 33° 45¹ and 36° 55¹ east of Greenwich. To the north of the region are Singida and Dodoma regions. It borders Morogoro region in the east and Ruvuma region and via Lake Nyasa the Republic of Malawi. The proposed project will be located at Iringa District and the key focus shall include; 1) Community capacity is maximally built for future sustainability of all development initiatives and OVC/MVC care and support. 2) Highest quality staff are employed and restructured for Community capacity building and for effective resource utilization. 3) Lessons learnt, best practices replicated for continuous learning and change management. There is a lot of poverty in this area mainly due to: 1) Cultural beliefs and practices. 2) Poor infrastructure 3) Negative community attitude – people not open to diversification in income generation 4) Gender issues – low girl child school enrollment, low status of women who cannot make decisions. Iringa Municipality is the capital of Iringa region with population of more than 106,371 residents according to the 2002 census. Out of this population 32% are youth. The town has numerous socioeconomic problems such as poverty, poor infrastructure, unemployment, poor social services and social ills. These make the town to be incompatible with the booming population that is hungry for these services. Young population is becoming dominant population group in the town. This group is also the most affected group of society by the above stated socio –economic constraints. The young sect of society in Iringa is alarmingly increasing from time to time because of three reasons 1) high rural to urban population 2) the strategic location of the town 3) the presence of some government institutions. Rural area of Iringa district is generally characterized by high land shortage causing low productivity. Because of his there is horrible poverty in rural Iringa that forces the young to migrate to urban center especially Iringa town in search of better life, education, health and other services. Second, Iringa is located in strategic position with main roads and highways crossing it in four directions namely Mbeya –Dar es Salaam, Ruvuma to Dar es Salaam capital city of Tanzania, Rukwa to Dar es Salaam, Mbeya to Dodoma headquarters’ of Tanzania, Ruvuma to Dodoma,...