TAYODEA shines at the CSOs excellence award

The Tanga Youth Development Association (TAYODEA) gloriously overshadowed the Civil Society Organisations’ (CSOs) Excellence Award for 2009 by bagging four top awards.

During the ceremony held in the evening of 29th October 2009 at Mlimanity City in Dar es Salaam, TAYODEA emerged the overall winner of CSOs Excellence Award, Northern zone winner of CSOs Excellence Award, overall winner of Best Grantees Award (BGA) and winner for the governance thematic area. 

The award ceremony was officiated by Managing Chairman of IPP Limited, Reginald Mengi, attended by Board members and development partners of the Foundation and coloured by entertainment from different groups.

TAYODEA scooped the award by demonstrating creativity in the course of implementing projects funded by the Foundation for Civil Society, involving beneficiaries in process of project implementation and monitoring, networking relationships with other stakeholders and managing resources efficiently. 
The organisation also demonstrated vertical and horizontal linkages both at community and organizational level, ability to influence decisions at ward and district levels, tangible impact at the community level like facilitating self-employment for youth and their participation in decision making as well as, strong legitimacy from the government  and community.

In addition, TAYODEA assured sustainability due to trust mobilised at community level and established economic projects such as timber yard, gender equality and expansion of its programs to all districts of Tanga Region

The 1st runner up of the CSOs Excellence Award was Tanzania Livelihood Skills Development (TALISDE) and the 2nd runner up was Tuseme Children Empowerment Trust.
Top ten of the awards were Unity in Diversity Foundation, Mbeya Ileje Isangati Consortium, Union of Non-Governmental Organisations in  Morogoro (UNGO), TAYODEA, Tuseme Children Empowerment Trust, Wings Environment & Education Transformation Unity, Tanzania Agriculture Society Organization (TASO), Ushirikiano wa Vijana Mwandege, Umoja wa Wenye Ulemavu Zanzibar (UWZ) and Tanzania Livelihood Skills Development Association.
Winners of the Best Grantee Award (BGA) by thematic areas were Ushirikiano wa Vijana Mwandege which took the prize for advocacy thematic area while Policy thematic area went to Unity in Diversity Foundation, Safety nets to Tanzania Livelihood Skills Development Association and Governance to Tanga Youth Development Association.

Winners by zones were Association of People with Disability in Kigoma which was the winner for the Western zone and the runner up was Neighbors without Borders, in the Southern Highlands Unity in Diversity Foundation was the winner and Mbeya Ileje Isangati Consortium (MIICO) the runner up. In the Central zone, the Association of People with Disability bagged the prize while Bio-gas and Farmyard Manure was the runner up.

Other winners included Association of People with Disability in Zanzibar (Zanzibar zone) with the runner up being White Star Society, Ushirikiano wa Vijana Mwandege (winner -Eastern zone), Wings Environment and Education Transformation Unity (runner up-Eastern zone), Runner up Kikundi Mwavuli (Winner-Southern zone), Mukemba Group Mtwara (runner-up-Southern zone), Tumaini Children Centre (winner-Lake zone) and  Baraka Good hope Orphans development (runner up-Lake zone)

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