The Tanzania Local Government
Action Forum (TaLGAF) program that was
aired in a popular weekly regular radio
program known as ‘ana kwa ana’
that means ‘face to face’
through Radio Tanzania succeeded to reach
85 per cent of 38 million population of
Tanzania who listened to the program.
Main role of TaLGAF
was to expand ALGAF initiatives through
dialogues using knowledge as communication
skills and other media as radio and mobile
phones to distribute information to the
regional and local level.
The TaLGAF extended
the dialogue that has benefited policy
makers, professionals and practitioners
mainly based in and around the city of
Dar es Salaam to the level of districts
and to reach 339 practitioners within
Tanzania in Morogoro and Tanga municipalities
and in Mkuranga District. Millions of
people have benefited from the program
by tuning in to the TALGAF sessions that
were broadcast nationally.
A discussion group that
was set up in Mkuranga District Council
of the Coast Region participated in all
six-radio programs and held discussions
among themselves. During the radio program
for December 2004 the Morogoro site moderator
Mr. Kikwesha organized an audience in
Morogoro that included members of a School
Teachers’ group that uses Drama
to educate teachers and students on HIV
AIDS related issues. The group requested
to make use of TaLGAF materials for their
future public educational activities.
By generating material
in the nationally spoken Kiswahili language,
the TaLGAF series have popularized issues
debated in the ALGAF sessions and at the
same time deepened discussions of the
variuos topics. The ALGAF Meeting in the
Tanzanian national context, with a local
district perspective possibly leading
to finding solutions to local problems.
TaLGAF is expecting to create publicity
and awareness of the program by sensitizing
and involve the key decision-makers at
regional level of government.
Moreover it expects
to integrate TaLGAF into the government
activities at the regional and LGA levels,
capacity building and retention at the
LGRP regional secretariats and LGAs as
well as seeking cooperation with, and
support from the LGRP.
The World World Bank
Tanzania and SDC supported the project.
