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GENDER POLICY REFORMS IN TANZANIA: FROM INDEPENDENCE TO PRESENT.

    1 Author(s):  MS NAISILIGAKI JAPHET

Vol -  10, Issue- 5 ,         Page(s) : 55 - 60  (2019 ) DOI : https://doi.org/10.32804/IRJMSH

Abstract

All sovereign nations around the world regardless developed, developing or less developed undergo through various reforms for the purpose of catering citizen’s demand, protection, inclusiveness as well as country’s advancement. Tanzania have been undergoing multiple reforms in most sectors such as socio-economic and political. Since Tanzania achieved its independence gender has been a cry to the nation and with that the country decided to take measures by making reforms as the society is dynamic due to multiple practices of culture, traditions, norms and values. Emerging and continuous gender issues in Tanzanian societies are what today contributed towards various gender policy reforms with both national and international commitments. The main purpose of this study paper is to study various gender policy reforms undertaken in Tanzania from Independence to present and to suggest way forward to curb with continuous gender failures that led to new gender policy reforms in Tanzania.

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