PROSTITUTION POLICY
PART A:
1.
Setting the vision on the prostitution issue
Setting
the vision on the prostitution issue as the area of focus from a given task,
this was the first task to be attempted by the in which later on the vision
required to be translated into actions for discouraging the prostitution behavior in our society., this idea for the mine to set first the vision come
from the way government develop its policy such that a government had a vision
delivered from the manifesto which was used during election
. From a given task
as a group assignment, that is to prepare prostitution policy, first decided to
produce the vision on eliminating the prostitution issue in the life survival
of Tanzanian who whether are affected directly or indirectly by the
prostitution by ten years to come.
In
this case members of the group decide and put a vision that, different
strategies has to be employed for the purpose of eradicating and hence removing
the behavior of prostitution among people of Tanzania society regardless of the
age, race or status of individual and finally capacity building for people to
declare the illegal sense for individual to entertain the prostitution business
anyhow.
I
come up with the best view among the suggested vision alternatives, and
therefore poverty alleviation seen as the correct than the other vision
alternatives during our discussion. This was due to the fact that, by employing
variety of strategies as a mission toward the situation that focuses on the
implementation of strategies.
2.
Setting the agenda
The
first task to set out the agenda was the second task among the steps designed
by me to prepare this prostitution policy, in they generated vision translated
into the form that some serious attention has to be kept by the government
officials on discouraging and eradicating the issue.
I
decided to consider the beneficiaries and stakeholders as well as particularly
the nearby N.G.O’s dealing with children welfare for proposals to be made.
3.
Stapes taken to meet the beneficiaries and stakeholders.
I
decide to distribute the task to each other on searching friendly the victims
on sexual behavior for financial gain or surroundings as to gather some
knowledge about the factors that triggers them to involve in business that is
prostitution behavior.
Having
the ideas about the prostitution from prostitutes was not easy task, we decided
first day to identify the vulnerable area for prostitution to be practiced, in
this case we decided to visit area like night clubs and brothels, around City
pub and Green lounge area here at Mbeya town and area with unauthorized bars
and guest houses as around Isengo and Maendeleo street in such away, the named
unauthorized bars and guest houses mostly contain young females who perform
sexual intercourse for money as to satisfy their life needs, therefore as we divide
ourselves to seek some important information about prostitution, we involved
some contribution to gather amount of money
as the cost for the search of prostitute as policy beneficiaries.
At
first, we decided to visit the nearby unauthorized bars and guest house around
Isengo and Maendeleo street, where we met with young females who involved in
sexual intercourse for financial gain that is prostitution, therefore we
decided to involve in sexual intercourse
by taking some soft drinks but taking and beers as well by offering them
the beers and soft drinks but unfortunately they used to take more than enough
and out of what we did expert the cost during the cost searching information,
but we manage to pay the cost as the mine take up the responsibility
accordingly.
For
the case of stakeholders as our consultants in making the policy proposal, was
no so difficult to us due to the fact that,
we did a field practice in different health at
Mbeya region hospital particularly CTC department. Our concern when visited at the centre was to
ask the CTS’s officer on what they actually do to help people stop prostitution
behavior as the key factor for HIV / AIDS transmission and there we gathered a
lot of suggestion particularly possible alternative for eradicating the
issue. In here were are very grateful to
honour nurse “ Mwajuma Alli” the chief Nurse at Mbeya regional hospital CTC
department for giving us some important alternatives on what actually should be
taken to eradicate the prostitution behavior, and therefore, for us to formulate policy became easy task as we used
to have a lot of reasonable set of policy alternatives.
4.
Setting the policy framework
This
was the fourth stage used to produce the prostitution policy by identifying the
core values, culture acceptance and availability of actors, goals and specific
objectives of the policy as well as focusing on the resources available. Here, considered the issue of prioritization
in such a way, by the few resources available, the immediate action has to be
directed on the issues of high priority in a given society.
5.
Selection of a course of action among the identified alternatives
This
was the fifth stage to attempt the task of policy making. In this case was involved in the discussion
about the best alternative among the suggested reasonable policy alternatives.
Here,
we decided first to set out criteria for the selection, in such a way the
criteria we decided first was all about that focus the humanity and the ability
of the government financially to support the matters used to eradicated remove
completely the prostitution behavior.
PART B:
PROSTITUTION POLICY IN TANZANIA
INTRODUCTION
This
prostitution policy is an important instrument especially at this point when
government has decided to take strong measures to improve ways of alleviating
prostitution in Tanzania particularly form adolescence through their life span.
For
the long time the government has been operating by introducing rules and
principles to combat the problem of prostitution that affect young females and
adult also by involving various stakeholders like NG’Os and external support from
developing and developed countries.
It’s
imperative, therefore that the government evolves a new policy that shall guide
future administration of the prostitution policy to achieve millennium goals by
at least 2025 for a problem to be eradicated.
This
policy is important because:
Firstly,
it sets out new systems and new principles of prostitution policy which conform
with the current times.
Secondly,
it takes into consideration major changes taking place in health care building
in the Tanzania society for the betterment of preserving nation culture as it
was before globalization era. Also the
policy is important in preserving Tanzanian societal social values.
Thirdly,
the policy conforms to the reforms taking place in the new role of the young
females together with adult female especially for capacity building as a means
to combat the prostitution.
The
policy and vision of the current prostitution policy that is adapted is for
transformation of the government responsibility for direct involvement of the
victims in the provision of education which will help to reduce the risk of
that behavior to persist longer.
Illegality of prostitution in
Tanzania
In
our government prostitution is an illegal business according to “Sexual Offence
Act – 1998”. This act state that to sell
our body its sexual humiliation and nobody is allowed to sell their body, this
is due to prostitution policies are particularly innovative. They rest firmly on human rights principles
such as:
Prostitution
a serious barrier to gender equality.
Prostitution
is serious problem that is harmful to the prostituted woman or child also to
society at large
Prostitution
is male violence against, especially targeting those who are economically,
racially marginalized.
Prostitution
is incompatible with internationally accepted principles of human rights: the
dignity and worth of the human person and the equal right of men and women.
Prostitution
is a gender- specific crime; the majority of victims are women a girls,
although a number of young men and boys also fall victims
Women
in prostitution are not to be criminalized or subjected to administrative
punishments, and have a right to live without being subjected to violence through
the harm of prostitution.
To
end prostitution, the political. Social, legal and economic conditions under
which women and girls live must be ameliorated by introducing measures such as
poverty reduction, sustainable development, measures that promote gender
equality and count eract male violence against women and girls, as well as
social programs focusing specifically on women and girls
Eliminating
the demand as the roar cause of position is a corner stone of Tanzania policies
males must take responsibility for their own and other’s oppressive sexual
behavior and change it.
Prostitution
and trafficking in human beings for sexual purposes are seen as issues that cannot,
and should not be separated; both are harmful practices and intrinsically
linked
All
forms of legal or policy measures that legalize different prostitution
activities, such as brothels, or that decriminalize the perpetrators of the
prostitution industry, including pimps, traffickers, brothel owners and buyers
are threats to gender equality.
The
legalization of prostitution will inevitably normalize an extreme form of
sexual discrimination and violence and strengthens male domination of all
female human beings.
PREFACE.
Most
individuals who enter in this business (prostitution) are money or economic
oriented. Many of them are capable and
can earn money through other activities and have enough education to make them
survive but have just decided to choose to be prostitutes as their simplest way
of earning money. Unfortunately there
are others who are taken from rural areas for the purpose of using them as
house girls instead they are forced to join the business.
The
policy intends to eradicate this business by introducing various measures,
principle and practices to overcome the prostitution business, that the
prostitutes conduct themselves to the highest ethical standards, and that they
put their skills and talents to productive activities that will be beneficial
to the national at large.
Te
prostitution as defined in this policy is constituted of various NGOs the
government, various organization and other stake holders has terms and
conditions that opportunities to both prostitutes and their customer have
another alternative of leaning money
MEANING OF PROSTITUTION.
It
is not easy to define the concept of prostitution, however, in this study
prostitution has been taken to mean that “sexual exploitation of woman for
remuneration in cash or in kind, usually but not always organized by an
intermediary such as parents, family members or procurer’’ (Otero, 1996). The above definition implies that
prostitution involves the exchange of money or valuable materials in return for
sexual activity. I hence, prostitution
is tantamount to the exploitation and victimization of the woman both
physically and emotionally, and goes without saying that it is a breach of
women’s rights.
Prostitution
is the business or practice of engaging sexual relation, especially in exchange
for payment or other things of value. A
person who in this field is called a prostitute and is a kind of sex
worker. Prostitution is one of the
branches of the sex industry. The legal
status of prostitution varies from country to country from being permissible
but unregulated, to an enforced or unenforced crime or to a regulated
profession. Prostitution is sometimes
referred to as” the world’s oldest profession
Prostitution
is the exchange of sexual acts, usually for money, accommodation or drugs laws
against the exploitation of victims of prostitution exist to some extent
throughout the world, and both specific and general laws on women prostitution
exist. In Tanzania, however, there are
no existing laws prohibiting prostitution.
As a result, most of the children and women practicing prostitution are
regarded as loiters. An issue of concern
regarding the exploitation of women and child in the sex business in the age of
18 is considered rape. In this context,
this means that the customer is supposed tube charged with criminal
responsibility if child victim is under 18, even if he or she consents. But the “sexual Offence Act’’ is in conflict
with the constitution where marriage is permitted at the age 15. This discrepancy can lead to a situation
where law enforcement authorities are reluctant to act.
The historical back ground of
prostitution in Tanzania
Prostitution
has existed in every society for which there are written records. “For a long
period in history, women had only two options for economic survival: getting
married, becoming a nun or becoming a prostitute’’ (main 1980). In the case of Tanzania, prostitution is
regarded as the ‘’choice left for divorced women and widows with no male
children. Several Haya women launch such
careers with hopes of establishing themselves as “economically independent
women” (Swants 1985, 73-74). Another
writer in the kiongozi News paper (1961), points out that prostitution is a
result of parents forcing their daughters into it for economic gain. This argument is somewhat valid if we
consider the Makonde and Yao systems of marriage where a dowry has to be paid
in the form of cows to enrich the parents, or to get a dowry for the
Boys in the case of poor parents who have many
male children. In the Haya tribe, parent
were found responsible for advising married girls to run away from their
husbands and go to towns to work as prostitutes, then to send money to the
parents in order to bring wealth or support to the poor families in rural areas
(Swants 1975: 85).
The
above reasons are not the only factors to explain the increase of prostitution
in Tanzania there are others such as the breaking up of marriages which has led
to the absence of parental guidance and counseling to girls entering puberty,
forcing them to indulge blindly in sexual activity. The outcome of the blind sexual practices is
hazardous. Girls become pregnant
prematurely and out of wedlock. Besides,
children born to underage mothers are regarded as outcasts by most societies in
Tanzania, as are their mothers. Society
rejects them and they have to seek shelter elsewhere. The only possible option is prostitution.
Outdated
norms and traditions have also been expressed as a cause for the increase of
prostitution in the country. The Gogo
and mwera for instance, in previous years imposed severe punishments on girls
who became pregnant out of wedlock.
Punishments included being tied up with heavy stones on the neck until
the victim died. The corpse was then
thrown into the river where it was either eaten by crocodiles or was deposited
on the riverbanks and left to rot. To overcome
severe treatment, girls found a way of avoiding such punishments. They escaped to urban areas where they discovered
that life, unfortunately, was also hostile.
Again, the only way left to survive was prostitution, which gave them
quick money but sometimes ended in violence.
Parents, who were not so cruel as
to impose such a punishment on their child, still would ask their daughters to
leave their homes. They ran to the
cities and towns like their counterparts only to ding that there were no
employment opportunities. They also fell
into prostitution. The number or girls
and women in prostitution continue to grow.
The
main objective of this policy is to quickly obtain sufficient qualitative and
quantitative information on prostitution in Tanzania. The policy focused on themes related to girls
and women in prostitution in the traditional manner at each location. i.e. for the qualitative component, the
policy concentration focused on knowing who are the prostate at risk, characteristics
of women engaged in prostitution, areas targeted most for prostitution, who
their clients were and the services they required, where they came from, place
of birth, duration of time spent in prostitution, relationships with clients,
reasons why children were trafficked, risks and hazards of prostitution, and
what other factors contribute to prostitution (i.e pornography, local
trafficking) so that programmed priorities can be set and actions can be
planned.
Places of prostitution
In
Tanzania organized women sexual exploitation takes place in brothel – like
settlements temporarily made in salons, kiosks, local beer shops, certain
special bars, restaurants, hotels and private houses, streets and other places
that are away from the street. Mainly in
Tanzania prostitution is widely practiced in room, bars, guesthouses, open /
hidden spaces (vichochoroni) graveyards, and other tourist attraction
areas. According to our observations
male children are also involved in prostitution in the same place in Dar es
Salaam, Arusha, Ilala and others.
·
Big hotels and famous streets / roads /
bars in the locations where the study was conducted, the researchers found that
there were known hotels, bars, streets, and public roads which were famous for
sex services,eg Ohio street at post and kinondoni street
·
Pombe shops (local beer shops), ferry
areas and small streets these that girls frequent most. It was found that girls engaged in
prostitution in these areas are street children; children living with
relatives, grandparents and employers as house girls; petty traders selling
fruits, local brews and food; vendors known as “mama lishe”, and a few girls
who are beggars or scavengers. The
prostitution found in these areas have had little or no formal education, i.e.
only one interviewee was said to have completed secondary education, and others
had completed STD VII or dropped out while in primary school. While involved in other business during the
day, these children dress casually and it is hard to differentiate between them
and children who are not involved in prostitution. They do not have the features of a “typical” prostitute. They engage in sexual activities in the rooms
at the local brew shops, in hidden corners, in food vendor booths, and at
toilets around the area. Following the
researchers’ observations, this proves that the lifestyles of the girls engaged
in prostitution are hazardous and differ greatly from one child to the next
depending of the situation and circumstances of location. However, in terms of protection and security,
about 90% of these children were generally unsafe.
General objective
General
objective of this policy is to avoid prostitution in all level in the society
which to live because it cause a lot of problem such as AIDS and other problem
of engagement in the use of drugs so this general of this policy of
prostitution.
Specific objectives of the policy
Specific
objectives of the policy
·
To find out the causes of women in
engagement in prostitution in Tanzania.
·
To assess the lifestyle conditions in
areas where prostitution in practiced.
·
To examine the characteristics
prostitution and associated features.
·
To expose the consequences of
prostitution, psychologically and socially,
·
To propose tentative measures of
intervention to eliminated prostitution as a matter of urgency
Vision of policy
The
policy emphasis government of united republic of Tanzania will be transformed
to an institution of excellence to play pivotal roles in achieving sustained
discouragement of prostitution activities practices and prosperity and
eradication of those immoral behavior or decay
Mission statement of policy
The
mission statement of Tanzania government organization is to enable the
government to facilitate and empower all the citizen and non-public and private
sector agencies to realize peace, justice and social equality to maximize their
contribution to national development in ways consistent with the promotion of
welfare eradication of prostitution and the protection of our natural customs,
norms and values.
The
common mission of every citizen in government in organization is to deliver
quality and play roles and responsibilities to the contribution in the national
development, instead of engaging ad practice the prostitution activities in
order to earning money and develop their own economic. They must sticks on other ways of earning
money and other developing activities.
Causes of prostitution
The
findings revealed that the sexual exploitation is caused by various
factors. These factors include poverty,
culture, sing parenting, peer influences and lack of opportunities. Below is a discussion of these factors in
detail.
(a) Poverty:
the concept is a relative term, but in case of this study it was taken to mean
the inability to meet social and economic needs. Within this context women engaged in prostitution
and key informants were asked to explain to what extent poverty was the cause
of prostitution. Poverty as the source of the problem was identified by 90% of
the key informants. Also, poverty among
parents and poor living conditions at home forced many girls to escape to town
to seek jobs such as barmaids, guest house attendants and house girls and to
beg, in order to seek other means to solve their social and economic problems. Among the women in prostitution, 70% pointed
out that all these factors indicated that poverty was the main cause. The responses from the interviews different
students indicate that the women in prostitution are from a background of very
poor living conditions, that their parents / guardians cannot afford to pay for
school fees, and a proper diet is challenge for them to obtain. In the book the
prostitution argues that poverty in several families leads many people to
engage in prostitution. The study found
that there are many factors that contribute to prostitution, however it was
noted that poverty among parents is a major cause of prostitution. It was indicated
that 40 out of 50 girl’s prostitutes 80% agreed that their parents and
guardians were poor. Many respondents that they were coming from very big, poor
families with poor living conditions.
(b) Culture:
based on the Tanzanian cultural heritage, boys are favored with life’s
advantages at family and national levels. Boys have more educational and
opportunities than girls. Due to this girls are more prone to engage in
different activities such as working as barmaids or in petty business, and
later engaging in prostitution. Many girls attend initiation ceremonies that
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satisfaction for men. Many girls practice this while they are very young.
Priorities should now be given to girls in education, family upbringing and
counseling and life skills.
(c) Single
parenting: the single parent situations (either mother/father died), living
with step mother/father or guardians and
torture and harassment from their guardians were factors that led them to run
away from home and engage in prostitution.
It was recognized that most girls joined the city with the expectation of
meeting basic needs without even a base to start from.
(d) Peer
influence: peer influence repeatedly was mentioned as a factor in women’s
engagement in prostitution. This was both by consent and unknowingly.
(e) Lack
of job opportunities: women and girls expect that when they go to the city,
there will be job opportunities for them. In the case of the study the majority
of those migrating had low educational levels and was not qualified for office
work. They turn to prostitution in desperation.
(f) Lack
of education: besides poverty, lack of education and employment opportunities
for youth, especially girls, were major causes of child prostitution.
Historically, in Tanzania, there has been a rising trend of unemployment among
women even after completion of their studies. This study revealed that most
women in prostitution were illiterate and/ or semi-illiterate. Considering the
above simple statistic, one can comment that lack of education and employment
were big problems for these girls.
(g) Increase
in number of street children: children engaged in prostitution, the study found
that another cause of girls practicing prostitution was due to the high
increase in the number or street children.
Girls entered into prostitution when they were in the streets, however,
during the time of interview they were no longer street children since they
were found in rented rooms, guesthouses and ghettos illustrating their
engagement in prostitution.
(h) Child
Physical Abuse: Closed interviews were conducted to find out fats about causes of
prostitution in women the study found that child abuse was one of the causes of
children engaging in prostitution.
Children had been abused by parents, relatives and employers (in the
case of child domestic workers). The
respondents said they were abused at the family level through harsh punishments
such as battering and food deprivation.
(i) Early
pregnancy: Early pregnancy is another cause that led girls to be expelled form
schools and homes, and to go to towns and city centre. In towns and cities they find life to be
unbearable and they finally ended up in prostitution. In this study some of the girls reported to
have been chased away by their parents or guardians and the same also happened
to them at school. These girls lacked
love, care and support. Their only means
of survival in town was through child prostitution. Some girls were infected with STDs and some
reported to have severe complications during pregnancy and delivery because
their bodies were not developed enough to have a baby. Some girls were raped, sometimes by more than
one man, and they were injured in their private parts. They did not even know who the father of
their child was. This led to girls
“escaping” these harsh realities through alcohol and drugs.
(j) Urban
migration: Another factor which was identified as a cause of prostitution was
rural / urban migration among girls who sought well – paid jobs. As revealed above, at least 55% of the girls
engaged in prostitution arrived in their present situation through rural /
urban migration spurred by job prospects.
(k) Demand:
An additional cause that needs to be addressed is the market demand for women
engaged in prostitution. The organized
system that operates around the recruitment of young girls, and the pull
factors set up to take advantage of their vulnerability are causes as
well. In other words the “exploiters”,
themselves are also causes. This can be
expanded to the fact that society is a cause as well; through the customers who
create the demand, the people who help facilitate the arrangements and
contribute to the system of prostitution.
The strategies on health care
The
local authorities are responsible for ensuring that prostitutes have easy
access to health care, with readily available services and no sanctions, but
health and working conditions are primarily the responsibility of the
prostitutes themselves and their employers.
The local authorities’ job is to ensure that employers fulfill their
obligations. For instance, they can set
conditions for granting licenses and take steps to ensure that those conditions
are met.
Employers’
responsibilities include pursuing a safe sex policy, giving their workers the
opportunity to benefit from information activities, and encouraging them to
have regular medical checkups for sexually transmissible diseases. General practitioners and specialists have
been given special guidelines on STD screening among prostitutes.
Medical
checkups are not compulsory. Obligatory
checkups reinforce the idea that prostitutes transmit infections. Moreover, clients use medical checkups as an
excuse to ask for unsafe sec. as a rule,
prostitutes are asked to have medical checkups four times a year. The majorities consider them useful
precautions and are willing to comply.
Clinic in the cities offer free and anonymous checkups. Sage sex and good information are of
paramount importance in protecting prostitutes and their clients against
transmissible diseases.
Reasonable policy alternatives for
addressing the problem
Women
who have been found in the streets engaging in prostitution have been taken as
loiterers. The government, however, has
been positive in terms of creating an enabling environment in policy and
practical terms for international funding as well as for the few NGOs that are
striving to address the problem of disadvantaged children in general and that
of girls and women exploited through domestic work and commercial sex in
particular. The government has been keen
about the programmers’ and NGOs are encouraged to assume roles in this sector.
Non
Governmental Organizations (NGOs) NGOSs such as Kieta Counseling Centre
(Salvation Arm), AMREF (African Medical and Research Foundation), , KIWOHEDE,
and just to mention a few, have been involved in the effort to combat
prostitution. The efforts which have
been made by these NGOs range from carrying out research to establishing the
nature and extent of prostitution in the country. Outreach programs have been developed in the
regions by mobilizing and sensitizing the victims of child prostitution on the
effects of the practice, counseling and withdrawing sexually exploited girls,
and providing them with alternative means to earn a living. The alternatives include small grants and
training in employable skills to enable the children to make ends meet.
International
Organizations such as the International Labour Organization (ILO) International
Programme of the Elimination of Child Labour (IPEC) and UNICEF have been at the
forefront of movements to combat prostitution.
For example, these organizations have built the capacities of the local
NGOs and government organizations to address the plight of the disadvantaged
children. Other efforts include the
provision of supporting funds to undertake the research activities, sensitizing
and withdrawing the girls involved in prostitution form the street, and
providing them with alternatives.
Financing
mechanisms of the policy
Government
Non
Government Organization
International
Donors
TACAIDS
Community
Mass
media
For
the prostitution problem to be addressed in our community, the following are alternatives
to be considered.
i.
To provide loans in small recognized
group and those loans should have reasonable conditions.
ii.
Provisional of entrepreneurship
education on how to utilize the loans given.
-Education
provided should base on culture, social values and religion.
-There
zones should coordinators dealing with the provision of loans and how will it
be utilized.
iii.
Construction of strict rules and principles that prohibits prostitution behaviors at all level of human life.
iv.
To provide vocational training to the identified prostitutes as the means to
enable them have self economic independent life.
Vocational
training should be including the skills about:-
-Driving
skills
-Carpentry
skills
-Electronics
skills
-Secretarial
skills
-Mechanical
skill
-Tailoring
skills
-Contractor
skills
v.
Capacity building: communities should be sensitized, organized workshops and
seminars can be established to follow up on circumstances and actions taken as
related to children’s rights.
The
elimination of child labour, including the sexual exploitation of children is
an urgent matter.
Communities
can use existing local structures to voice problems and injustices that
children face in the area. They can be equipped with knowledge regarding how to
promote social and economic gains in their communities using simple and
affordable methods. Communities should be empowered through HIV/AIDS education,
credit and loans schemes, positive parenting practices, and a special community
commitment towards the protection of the girls child. Communities must
participate in self reliance activities like building schools and creating and
maintaining health and community counseling centre, while government and
non-government institutions support the efforts with materials and technical
support.
vi.
Revolving funds: loan system can be introduced for those who want to engage in
petty business. This could take the form of a revolving fund, or loan, credit
and saving associations. Community members should be able to learn about these
systems through training in the local language by responsible community
members, institutions and government officials. Other alternatives should be
looked into in terms of what traditionally is accepted in each community. Loans
should not focus on cash or money but other means like providing working tools
i.e. in clothes making or food preparation, gardening and other activities
chosen by the audience themselves and that can offer sustainability.
vii.
Counseling centre: Research findings recognized that these young girls are
vulnerable to a range of difficult circumstances including many social and
psychological issues. The government and non-government organizations can
establish centres for young girls at their business sites for services such as formal and informal
education, socio-economic training, and health and other counseling about
sexually transmitted disease, knowledge and medication as primary measures for
prevention against HIV/AIDS, potential lifestyle changes, etc.
viii.
Vocational training: the problem of joblessness and children in prostitution
cannot be overcome by capturing the children and sending them back to their
areas of origin. Vocational education and a peaceful and caring living environment
should be established by introducing centre that encompasses hope and love. The
centres should have varieties of different kinds of dye, batik, weaving and
local dry food preparations i.e. cashew, ground nuts, peas and baked goods.
Also electrical and house painting skills were recommended. Providing training
opens up options and doing in doing so so will minimize prostitution.
ix.
Information and awareness: there is a need to teach the community about the
extent and magnitude of prostitution in Tanzania, and about the consequences of
women prostitution as one of the worst forms of child labour. The communities
must advocate for ILO Convention 182 by publishing leaflets in the Swahili
language. Through this parents can be made more aware of the importance of
sending their children to school. Family protection and child abuse issues must
be brought to the forefront as well. This can be done in a mass campaign by
collaborating with local government leaders, religious leader, and NGO’s and by
distributing posters, fliers and other possible mass mobilization means. Lack
of education is the main hindrances in Ruvuma, Mara and Mtwara.
x.
Mass Media/ Condom Use: The government and other organizations should
decentralized HIV prevention efforts down to local and family communities. By
involving every person in the society people will see the importance of
eliminating child prostitution in their own settlement and thus enhance
prevention of HIV spread among young girls as well as other own community
members. This can be done by mass campaigns by using locally established girl
community theatre groups who will use songs, drama and poems to campaign for
the elimination of child proper methods of condom use. The fact that some of
the customers of the girls interviewed were reported to not use condoms
appropriately, means that the girls will be better armed if they themselves
know how to. Condoms should be distrusted and made accessible to as many people
as possible in the local communities.
xi.
Outreach activities: the elimination of children in prostitution should be
integrated into all local community structures and institutions including schools,
police forces, churches, mosques, community organizations and other community
groups. These groups should provide information through various outreach
activities led by people who are skilled in the field of child prostitution
prevention. A community education post can be opened whereby educational videos
on hazardous conditions of children engaged in prostitution will be shown.
Again there is a need for proper provision of infrastructures that will help
people, especially youth from the villages. The farming community in the
villages has to be provided with farming aids including good roads, markets
etc.
xii.
Target the demand the additional causes identified above must have a related
solution. Clients, cultural practices practices that promote the sexual
exploitation of children, tourists, the police and society- these all need to
be targeted and policy must be created with this demand side of the problem
fully addressed.
Selected
course of action to address the prostitution problem
Basing
on the resources available as well as dignity, humanity causes and consequences
of the prostitution behavior for the welfare of the society, the following
should be done.
Educational
should be provided to the targeted population (identified prostitutes) basing
on the self identity, education about vocation skills that will enable the
target group to involve in the other business that increase and improve
individual economic life standard.
Meanwhile,
vocational skills should be practiced together with the reasonable loan
provision to all targeted group that is, the identified prostitutes by building
capacities to them on the utilization of the fund raised in accordance to the
skills provided during the vocational training.
Zones
has to be established to easy the provision of education as well as to manage
the loan provision with reasonable condition that every citizen will afford. As
the matter to improve the proper utilization of the fund rose small recognized
group should be established under supervision with reasonable set of rules
induced by the recognized authority.
POLICY IMPLEMENTATION
This
policy has to be put into action as much early as possible after its approval
for the betterment and societal welfare.
The
steps toward the implementation of this policy should be considered as the
course of action manifested within this policy particularly on early
presentation of
-Organization
structure
-The
implementers via seminar
-Awareness
of the rule and principles governing the that loans provision
Conclusion
This
was a serious problem in many countries and this was caused by different
changes that occur in the society especially this development of science and
technology and there have important for the government to collaborate with
society and NGOS to abolish this problem because it caused death of people and
death it led problem of orphans in the community because many parents die with
HIV/AIDS so because of this disaster of AIDS in the society so because of this
there have important for government to participant with NGOs to implement
policy of abolish prostitution in the country for provide loans and aid for the
people participate in this illegal business of prostitution.
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REFERENCES
Neubeck,
K.J, Neubeck, M.A & Glasberg, D.S (5th Ed), (2007) Social problem; A critical Approach. MC
Graw Hill .New York. America.
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