MEETING WITH MEMBER OF PARLIAMENT

AJISO staff with a member of Parliament from Mwanza region at Parliament grounds Dodoma

NETWORKING

AJISO Executive Director exchanging ideas with the Executive Director of the Fondation for Civil Society in the Parliament grounds Dodoma. This event was held on June, 2009.

AWARENESS RAISING

Ms. Ester Kibanga a Paralegal Officer conduct facilitation to AJISO beneficiaries.

PARALEGAL MEETINGS

On July, 2009 AJISO conducted a Paralegal meeting at Mashati ward, Rombo district, Kilimanjaro region. The meeting was attended by 42 people who were Paralegal volunteers from Mashati villages. Each village send 2 Paralegal volunteers in consideration of gender. The meeting was very successfully and an Action Plan was made to guide activity implementation for a period ending December, 2009.

These Paralegal volunteers worked as reconciliators in their respective villages.

PUBLICATION

PUBLICATION

This is one of among many AJISO publications for readings and awareness creation.

OUR PUBLICATIONS

Our Publications are mainly based in educating communities on their legal rights. We design them for the purpose of enlighten people to become aware on their rights. These publications are designed in a simple language and distributed free of charge.

AJISO ORGANIZATION STRUCTURE

UNDER CONSTRUCTION

CONTACTING AJISO

HEADQUARTERS
AJISO Headquarters is located at New street, Bondeni ward, Opposite Buffalo Hotel, Moshi municipality, Kilimanjaro region Tanzania.

AJISO have branches/focal point people in 3 Wards of Rombo district that is UbetuKahe, Nanjara Reha and Kitirima Kingachi.

Addresses
The Director,
P.O.Box 272,
Fax: (255) 27 27 52241,
Tel: 255 27 27 50941,
BlogSpot: http://ajiso.blogspot.com
E-mail: ajisotz@yahoo.com

AJISO BELIEVES AND MANAGEMENT TEAM

AJISO Believes in:

• Gender equality and mutual trust.
• Spirity of solidarity.

Management Team

1. Executive Director
2. Legal Officer in charge
3. Legal Officer Volunteers
4. Volunteer Paralegal in the Villages
5. Accountant
6. Head of economic advancement unit
7. Secretary and Office attendant

AJISO STRATEGIC OBJECTIVES

1. To provide Legal Aid and Human Rights Awareness to poor women and
vulnerable groups in Community.

Strategies

• Capacity building of community-based Paralegals and Humans Rights Activities.
• Piggy backing routine village government and ward development committee meetings for awareness raising seasons.
• Establish and run a Mobile Legal Aid Clinics for enhanced access to justice and legal advice.

2. Strategies

Social safety nets play an indispensable role in improving socio-economic positions of marginalized women.

Strategies

• Network with Micro-Finance Institutions for capacity development of income generating groups.
• Facilitate empowerment of socio-economic groups and caregivers of HIV/AIDS orphans and victims.

3. To improve participation of women and vulnerable groups in local governance.

• The organization will provide civic education to influential women, female Ward Councilors, Ward and village government leaders.
• Develop good working relations with different stakeholders.
• Undertake reality check survey to establish level of women and vulnerable groups, participation in decision making bodies.

4. To advocate for better policies and laws that prevent gender based violences in society

• Collaboration and networking with different organization with different organization nationally and internationally.
• AJISO is active member of organization such as WIDAF

5. To strengthen Institutional capacity of the organization for sustainable development.

• Develop good working relation with media, research institutions and likeminded civil society organizations.
• To improve efficiency effectiveness and sustainability of AJISO.
• The organization will undertake interventions geared towards improving its governance, programming, human resource management and resource mobilization.

AJISO VISION AND MISSION STATEMENT

VISION
AJISO envisage a society which values, respect and protect social justice.

MISSION
AJISO is a non-governmental, not for - profit and non-partisan civil society organization which will promote human rights, access to justice and social economic empowerment of women and vulnerable children in Tanzania.

GOAL
To promote standard of living among women and vulnerable groups in Tanzania.

PURPOSE
To improve access to justice and socio-economic status of poor and marginalized.

DEFINING AND PRIORITIZING VALUES
AJISO's values include:

• Volunteerism
• Transparency
• Accountability and
• Respect

ABOUT AJISO

AJISO is a non-governmental organization founded in 1998 by a group of 15 women from Moshi and Rombo districts located at Kilimanjaro region in the United Republic of Tanzania, East Africa.It is registered under the NGO section 12 (1) Act No. 24 of 2002. AJISO is not for profit, neither religious, non partisan to any political organization. Mainly the organization is formed to empower its members and women at large with information on social, human rights, the legal aspects and poverty alleviation.

Fro its inception, AJISO has been concentrating in Kilimanjaro region where network partners have been identified and contributed to the organization's successes to-date.