The core activities of community development at Songea district
DECLARATION
I
declare that this field work report is my original work and has not been
presented to any of academic institution, No part of this report should be
reproduced without my consent or that of Stella Maris Mtwara university collage
Name
EDITHA EDMUND KOMBA
Signature……………………………
Date………………………………
Declaration
by the supervisor
This
report has been submitted to academic supervisor with my approval as Stella
Maris Maura University College.
Name MR. LUPOGO
Signature
…………………………
Date…………………………………
DEDICATION
This
work is dedicated to my lovely parents; relatives, and to different
stakeholders whose materials and moral support have made it successful.
ACKNOWLEDGEMENT
Firstly,
I would like to take this opportunity to thank the Almighty God for his love,
care and blessings that have made me fulfill my duties and responsibilities in
both social and academic arenas, by giving me good health of both physical and
mental capacities.
Secondly,
I would like to thank so much my supervisor for supervising me in a manner that
built me with critical thinking skills and evaluations when conducting academic
and social activities and so becoming a remarkable supervisor in the way that
her supervision made this field work successful.
Lastly,
I express my gratitude and thanks to my family, relatives and friends who
showed me their fully support and cooperation through their prayers, fiscal and
moral support for the whole time I was carrying out this field work. May the
Almighty Lord bless them all.
ABSTRACT/ EXECUTIVE SUMMARY
This
report is a result of practical training undergone at Songea district under
the Ward. The report is perquisite for
the certificate students who have to attend practical training. The training
took four weeks as from the 17 February 2020 to 17 March 2020. The mode of
training involved was participatory in different activities and observation of
instructions from the supervisor where also different people participated in
different activities such as cleanliness, entrepreneurship and in community
development activities in general hence becoming much advantageous not only to
me but also to the officers and majority at large.
LIST OF ABBREVIATION
WEO: Ward
Executive Officer
CDO: Community
Development Officer
TASAF:
Tanzania Social Action Fund.
VEO: Village Executive Officer
Table of
Contents
CHAPTER ONE
HISTORICAL BACK GROUND OF THE ORGANIZATION
I.I INTRODUCTION
This
part of the report presents a brief description of the region by providing
information on geographical location, land area, climate, administrative set
up, population and socio-economic indicators. The information aims at providing
the user with a general understanding of the region and its resources.
1.2 Geographical
Location and Boundaries
Songea
Rural district is boarded to north by Songea rural district, to the east by Namtumbo
district to the south by Mozambique and to the west by the Mbinga district.
Songea
urban district it found at Ruvuma region comprises six districts of Tunduru,
Songea Rural, Mbinga, Songea Urban Songea urban, and Namtumbo. The region
headquarters is located in Songea Urban District.
1.3 Land Area
The
region has an area of 102,4 square kilometers, of which about 101.003 square kilometers
are arable land. Also out of the total area 1.22 square kilometers are under
water bodies while 101.11 square kilometers are land area.
1.4 Climate
1.4.1 Temperature
The
temperature in the district is moderately mild at an average temperature of
23oC depending on the altitude and season.
The
months of June, July and August are chilly with the temperature dropping to 13 o
C. October and November are the hottest months with an average temperature of
30oC in the lowlands.
1.4.2 Rainfall
The
rate of rainfall, which Songea receives annually, is between 800mm and 1200mm.
Songea
district
has only one rain season (long rains) which is between November- May. Rainfall
increases with altitude, hence the lowlands are relatively drier compared to
the highlands. The amount varies from one district to another.
1.5
Population
The
District has a total population of 156,930 (Male 76,898 and female 80,032)
according to the
year
2002 National Population Census, it is estimated that in 2008 total population
is 185,918
Where
by 90,728 are men and women are 95,190.
1.6 Administrative
setting
Songea
rural district has 20 wards
Table
1 ward administrative setup
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No
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Ward
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Village
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hamlets
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1
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3
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19
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Source;
Songea rural district (Litapwasi) 2020
1.6.1
Water and sanitation
About
2% of population access adequate clean and safe water through pipe water supply
scanners deep and shallow well sifted with had pumps dams and ram water
harvesting times.
1.6.2 Community
development
Community
development refers to those measure and efforts that enables people to
recognize their own abilities identify problems and use the available resources
and opportunity for income and build better life on self-reliance basic.
1.6.3 Nature of the
business
The
district provides services all people who need to acquire services from
district since the targeted is to serve the community to improve living
standard of people at Songea urban district through the identifying and
utilizing natural postures for their own.
1.6.4 Agriculture
Agriculture
is the predominating economic sector in Songea urban district about 90% of the
agriculture cutup is by small holder’s farmers. The Songea urban district
defends on farming and destructs in generally as the main source of income of
which contribution about 75% of the total income. Food crops growth include
cassava, maize. A cash crop includes maize and beans. maize of all crops in the
district and ward and village are much compared to national yield of crops
productivity and consequently raise the living standard of the people in the
district especially of our poor farmers
1.6.5 Livestock
production
Livestock
keeping is very low regulating into advice effect on the status of the people
one person consumer less than a little of meal less than kilo of meat and egg
per year. The estimated live suffice population are cattle 1655 sheep 1107
hence 9, 36,752 goats 20,308 and 970 dogs Present yield of all livestock
production in the district are very low compared to national.
1.6.6 Cooperative
man-eating
One
presence of cooperative mane ting in Songea urban is important because most of
the members are too poor to their own transport storage facilities or even to
influence prices of their communities especially maize which is the major cash
crop the objective of having the cooperative union in the ward and village are
promote the economic and social welfare of its numbers and to market their
commodity more efficiently than the Mudale increase accessibility to credit and
education to its members and at the same times services the need of their
consumers effectively. There are several constraints faced cooperative to the
district and ward and village there include lace of effective capital both is
funds and capital. Requirement educational training of personal lack of capital
has led not only insufficient business but also to little seven expansion this
had led to failure of most of these societies to tap economics of scale
1.3. 0 Trade sector
This
is another important sources of revenue to district is also potential source too poverty
alleviation aiming the people district was a total 524 shop 420 restaurant 1620
kiosks the district and revenue has collection through various organization
however services delivery by the sector is hampered by shortage of sounds and
local of transport for supervision generally the ward and village increase the
number of traders including big cashew nut traders and training of business
community on business skills and management and also increase animal inspection
of business.
1.3.1 District
revenues
Since
over 90% of the habitants of Songea urban are employed in agriculture this
means that the ward and district and village generally own revenue base relies
on this source about 90% of the ward. Own provides is from agriculture the other
30% of income is business increases however there source are highly unless to
the communities to their expectations as the result of the ward and village has
to poly not only on its own revenue sources. Apart from there is sources of
revenue the ward and village also expects to recover subsidies from the central
government and some other find from development parties
1.3.2 Health
The
district has a total number of 10 health facilities of which four (43) of them
are Health Centre and 50 dispensaries that are owned by government and provide
institution. However health performance is adversely affected by limited sands
this has resulted into in adequate supply of drugs materials, shortage of
qualities and skilled presumed and into inadequate poor incentive for the
existing staff.
Table
4: Show types of health facilities
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Facility types
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Government
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Private
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Total
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Hospital Health
Centre
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1
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1
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1
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Dispensaries
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10
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4
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14
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1.4 Economic
infrastructure
1.4.1 Roads
Bicycles and motor vehicles are the major
means of transport in the district had no railway and airport, the district
using its roads for social and economic activities within its bound and at
national since the nature of roads are all weather passable.
1.4.2 Energy
The use of fire wood in rural areas and
charcoal in urban is traditional way to the preparation of food heating water
etc. with only 50% the district household gain up access to electricity through
solar power, fuel wood is indeed the predominant energy source for domestic
purposes
1.4.3 Other forms of
energy
Fossil
fuel is also important for domestic lighting purposes kerosene is the number
one source in both rural and urban areas.
1.5 Challenges and
its solution
1.5.1 Challenges
·
Lack of experiences to my food so I was
given sore tasks which was above of my capability to perform i.e.
·
Poor resources like cars, computer and
internet connection through that we have failed to visit various community
members for provision of lessons concerning social life.
·
Ignorant of source community members so
they were brings some ceases which was not concerned with the officer I was
taking my told.
·
Lack of patient to the village member.
·
Poor timing of field attachment
1.5.2 Solution
Patient
helps me to concerning some problem faced in the field attachment I was
provides education of the community member which cases can be breached.
1.6 Strategies
direction
Strategic
government is to improve, encourage and ensure that people occupy and utilize
land in a proper manner for social, economic developments without caducity
degradation to the environment currently the ward and village has 150 surveyed
plots in this planning period arms at
demarcating primary and secondary school, Health Centre and village boundaries.
The
district also aims at increasing number of fevered and allocated plots.
1.7 Products
Songea
urban district deal with the services provider as the institute through the
various departments which enables the town to meet the targeted goals to the
whole provides quality services to the whole society with no segregation to any
one, where her is poor, rich, educated people and those who are not educated
for example to provide knowledge on sexual reproductive health.
The
village government together with the villagers themselves have some objectives
to new generation and future generations, some of those objectives are
v Quality
and quantity of economic services such as improvement of agricultural sector,
business and livestock keeping.
v Good
leadership and administration enhanced, the village has on objective of having
proper leadership which can promotes free and fair contribution of ideals to
the got by involve the villagers in the village meeting, also a village
enhanced gender `balance.
v Poverty
reduction, a village aims to reduction of poverty when reaches 2025 by
sustaining the government policy of Tanzania to reduction poverty in 2025 by
improving various sectors.
v Other
objectives of the village are social welfare and gender empowerment and good
management of environment and environment conservation.
1.9.2 Function of the
Village
v To
deliver the problems of the central government.
v To
fulfill orders from the district council.
v To
encourage citizen in development program.
v To
conduct village mediation council.
v To
receive and discuss report of revenue and expenditure of the village cash.
v To
maintain peace and security in the village.
v To
solve conflict emerged within the community in the village.
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Source organization field Litapwasi
ward (2020)
CHAPTER TWO
PLACEMENT IN THE ORGANAZATION
2.0 Introduction
In
this chapter explained the placement of the organization, activities
undertaken, working environment, measuring demands of assigned tasks, problems
faced, solution to the problems faced, new things learned, gaps in the theory
and relevance of attachment. As the things that I learned during field
attachment which I was conducted at Songea district
2.1 The core
activities of community development at Songea district
v To
resolve various social misunderstanding of Songea district community in order
to reach several of Songea district community
v To
empower Songea district community with a knowledge which can liberate them from
the poverty and others problems which are facing community
v To
improve the different several of TASAF
v To
educate people to engage in entrepreneurship groups in order to reduce poverty
to the people in Songea district
v To
encourage people with production activities in order to improve their
development
2.2 Description of
Tasks and Duties
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Duties
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Responsibility
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Orientation day a community
development officer introduce me different department of Songea urban
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To listen a community development
officer to all those instruction which instruct me
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I resolve he marriage conflict the
member of Songea district in Litapwasi community
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I act as a mediator to make sure that
all conflict to that marriage are resolved
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I register the group of people living
with HIV/AIDs(WAVIU)
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I ensure that this group must get some
advice from TASAFF
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Prepare the project of town
development
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I learn on how to prepare
project of village (Litapwasi)
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Compromise case of thief
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I make sure that to solve the case of
thief who have take for person
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I visit different entrepreneurship
groups to see their performance
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I give them lesson on how to run their
activities in small groups
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I visit group of disabled people who
found in Songea district especially in Litapwasi village
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I give them ways on how to control
their daily life and activities which around them so as to make their works
to be presentable to the community as other people.
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Meeting with community development
officers
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We decided to form budget for global women’s holiday
held in the ward district(Litapwasi)
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Meeting with entrepreneurship
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Practice together with community
development as well as entrepreneurs
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Meeting with Amcoss members
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I was appointed secretary of the Amcos
session and we discussed various issues the agenda was reading and approving
the constitution
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Summary writing
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I wrote a summary of Amcos county
session .
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Prepare letter to the villages
executive officer
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Also I learn on how to prepare letter
to the village executive officer.
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2.3 Working
environment
Work
environment was good to some extent although there was financial problem our
chief supervisor used to motivate us by providing breakfast and some incentives
at the end of the month. Good relationship between students and supervisors and
among students themselves was a matter of consideration we normally
collaborated in each task assigned to us.
2.4 Measuring Demands
of Assigned Tasks
During
field activities performed at my field training some activities were more
challenging since financial activities being implemented through information
technology system which include computer. High tax all these are system used in
finance
2.5 Problems Faced by
Organization and its Solution
2.5.1 Problem Faced
v Lack
of experience to my field, so I was given some task which was above of my
capability performed.
v Poor
resources like cars, computers and internet connection through that we have
fail to visit various community members for provision of various lessons
concerning social life.
v Ignorant
of source community members so they were brings some ceases which was not
concerned with the officer I was taking my told
v Lack
of patient to the village member
v Poor
timing of field attachment
2.5.2 Solution to the
Problems Faced
v Through
the knowledge which I grasp from the college I was succeed to perform those
task I was given by the head of department of community development.
v Even
though we have poor resources to reach various community members so community
development staff was decided to use phone in order to listen various problems
which were facing community concerned.
v We
were provide education to the community members which cases can be brought to Songea
district and which cases should be not brought to the ward.
v We
were educate people to engage in entrepreneurship that can help them to improve
their lives
v Patient
help I to overcome some problems faced in the field attachment.
2.6 New things
learned
·
To know how to register different groups
of people example elders and disable people
·
Increasing of confident and
understanding on how community development officer operate in our community
·
I learned and get how to educate people
about entrepreneurship
·
To learn how to negotiate the various
cases found in the community
·
I learned that patient is very important
in order to successful.
2.7 Gaps between
theory and attachment
The
gaps in the theory field programs it exist simply because all the things which
we learned in the college some does not exist and some of them exists since the
program or sociology system that we learned at the college all are not
applicable due to the system set by the institute so that situation is one of
the gaps in the theory.
2.8 Relevance of
attachment
·
Songea urban district have given chance
to student to join in that organization to their field in order to get many
things that may help them to increase their knowledge and skills with their
training and in order to help other people in the community.
·
The field attachment training help I
some people come to get advice from me other ways those people since advice.
·
The field attachment training program
should be improved in order to attract student to practice so as make them
being good community development officer within the society.
CHAPTER THREE
CONCLUSION AND RECOMMENDATION
3.1 Lesson Learned
In this field work I learn on how to
manage time and working in team. The organization deals with different people
who have different levels in education, culture (Ngoni culture), attitudes and
historical background.
3.2 Knowledge Gained
Achievement
which I achieved in community development officer such as;
·
Good cooperation among the staff members
·
Educate people on how to participate in
entrepreneurship
·
good system of working procedure in
which it make my performance well and appreciated by other staffs
·
Good arrangement of duties, assign make
the management to believe on my performance.
·
Good cooperation with community
members
·
Reduces conflict to the community
members
3.3 The Sustainability of an
Organization
Songea
district is very or strong enough on heaving required properties, qualified
personnel whose employed and attached to the relevant department, since the
workers perfumed their tasks in accordance with higher confidence,
objectivities and interpret as well as set of rule and regulation that enables
them to report at work on time.
3.4 Recommendation
3.4.1Recommendation
to Stella Maris Mtwara
·
More time should be allocated to the
field attachment training at least two months or four months than three weeks
are not enough to make students to understand works more practically.
·
The students must be given financial support
that would help them during field attachment training to reach limited areas
and met with other people.
3.4.2 Recommendation for field
Officers
·
Students should give more time in order
to accomplish their field work so that they can learn and occur more skills and
knowledge in data collection.
·
During field time, supervisors should
visit their students in order to make them competent to what needed in the
work.
·
Field reports collected should be
utilized fully in order to have an idea on what going on in the community and
brings positive change by solving challenges that occurred
REFERENCES
Songea
district (2020), Songea Officer; Field students on trainer’s attachment.
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