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Sikika is a health advocacy local NGO registered in Tanzania with national wide mandate in health governance. Established in 1999 as Youth Action Volunteers (YAV), the organization has transformed in many ways–we have transformed from youth in reproductive health to broader fundamental health outcomes namely Health care Governance and Financing, Human Resources for Health, Medicines and Medical Supplies and HIV & AIDS. We have intensified our interventions in rural areas–Kondoa and Mpwapwa (Dodoma), Kiteto & Simanjiro (Manyara), Iramba and Singida Rural (Singida) to complement previous urban and semi urban focus in Kibaha and Dar es Salaam.

We have systematically maintained research for evidence as our tool of advocacy engagement at al levels of health service delivery.We consider the general public as users of health services and we therefore empower communities to take an active role in Social Accountability Monitoring of health service provision at all levels.

We use Outcome Mapping to measure our interventions’ contributions to change in the health sector. Our advocacy strength builds on the quality of our research and strong partnership with other CSOs.

PROGRAM AREAS

Health Governance & Finance
Human Resource for Health
Medicine & Supplies
HIV and AIDS

Health Governance and Finance

Budget transparency
Effectiveness of the budget
Oversight

Human Resource for Health

Ethics
Deployment and retention
Complaint mechanism systems

Medicine and Supplies

Transparency
Availability
Distribution

HIV and AIDS

Transparency
Availability and distribution
Planning

After the 31st October 2010 general election, various government departments and parastatal organizations spent Tsh 175, 639,750 on 217 congratulatory messages to winners, in the form of advertisements published in various forms of media from the 8th of November 2010 to the 8th of December 2010. The money could buy 828 delivery beds or 1254 delivery kits. (Source: Political Advertising report -2011)
Gauze was unavailable at 48% of 71 districts, and this had persisted for a periodranging from three to six months. Only 8% of the districts had sufficient quantities. Similarly, 37% of the facilities did not have gauze, and only 10% had sufficient quantities (Source: Medicines and Medical Supplies Availability report -2011)
Eight out of 15 cadres show heath workers reporting rate below 80%. From the 328 graduates who were deployed to an urban duty station 305 persons (93%) reported. But in rural districts, 26% of deployed graduates did not report to their place of destination. (Source: Human Resources for Health Deployment Tracking Study- 2010)

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