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Viewing cable 09DARESSALAAM846, TANZANIA'S NOMINATION FOR 2010 INT'L WOMEN OF COURAGE AWARD

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09DARESSALAAM846 2009-12-07 14:57 2011-08-25 00:00 UNCLASSIFIED Embassy Dar Es Salaam
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DE RUEHDR #0846/01 3411457
ZNR UUUUU ZZH
R 071457Z DEC 09
FM AMEMBASSY DAR ES SALAAM
TO RUEHC/SECSTATE WASHDC 9114
INFO RUEHZO/AFRICAN UNION COLLECTIVE
RUEHZK/ECOWAS COLLECTIVE
UNCLAS SECTION 01 OF 02 DAR ES SALAAM 000846 
 
SIPDIS 
 
STATE FOR S/GWI, AF/PD, AF/E 
 
E.O. 12958: N/A 
TAGS: PREL KWMN PHUM PGOV KPAO TZ
SUBJECT: TANZANIA'S NOMINATION FOR 2010 INT'L WOMEN OF COURAGE AWARD 
 
REF: STATE 111471 
 
1. U.S. Mission Dar es Salaam nominates Ananilea Nkya for the 2010 
Secretary's Award for International Women of Courage for her 
tireless efforts to promote equality, opportunity, and justice for 
Tanzanian women and girls. 
 
Advocating for Women's Human Rights 
----------------------------------- 
2.  Through the Tanzanian Media Women's Association (TAMWA), of 
which she was a founding member in 1987 and has been executive 
director since 2001, Mrs. Ananilea Nkya ("NN-kya") has been a 
leading advocate for women's advancement through awareness raising 
and judicial reform for over 20 years.  Though Nkya and her 
colleagues initially faced great obstacles to establish TAMWA, the 
organization has given Tanzanian women a voice and transformed 
Tanzania's media environment, ensuring wide coverage of women's 
issues and a professional media corps with many qualified female 
journalists.  Using a technique called "bang" journalism, Nkya 
garnered media attention for key issues affecting women through 
coordinated media reporting campaigns. 
 
3.  Among the most important judicial reforms Nkya championed from 
2002-2005 was a through a media campaign calling for the repeal of a 
Zanzibari "Spinsters, Widows, and Female Divorcees Protection Act No 
4 of 1985" that criminalized out-of-wedlock pregnancy.  Risking 
threats of death from those opposed to such reform on the 97 percent 
Muslim isles, Nkya pushed ahead with civic education and encouraged 
continued reporting by TAMWA members, which eventually resulted in 
the repeal of the law. 
 
4.  Over the past six years, Nkya has also lobbied Tanzania's 
government for an amendment to the Law of Marriage Act, which 
currently allows girls younger than 18 to marry and in essence 
allows forced marriages of underage girls against their will.  As a 
result of her efforts, the government is presently drafting a white 
paper, the first step toward an amendment to the law.  Nkya also led 
a media campaign against Female Genital Mutilation (FGM), still 
widely practiced among certain Tanzanian tribes.  The continued 
anti-FGM media campaign is now sustained by journalists who do not 
even belong to TAMWA.  Her work helped secure passage of the Sexual 
Offence Special Provision Act in 1998 which criminalized FGM and 
increased the punishment of rapists to 30 years in jail and provided 
a life sentence for gang rape and raping minors. 
 
5.  Nkya has implemented civic education to provoke public debate 
about the caliber of Tanzanian leaders and to encourage voters to 
make thoughtful choices at the polls, emphasizing the importance of 
electing responsible, uncorrupt leaders.  During the recent local 
government elections, she was aggressive in her efforts to encourage 
women to carefully consider electing competent leaders.  As a 
result, she faced threats and even a public berating from a 
high-level elected leader.  Her response?  "If you are good leader 
than why are you threatened by civic education?  It is better (for 
me) to die doing something I believe in than to leave the country to 
go to rubbish."  These actions directly support our MSP goal to 
"Govern Justly and Democratically," especially in advance of the 
2010 general elections. 
 
6.  In 2009, Nkya led a TAMWA campaign aimed at reducing the female 
school dropout rate due to unplanned pregnancy.  In mainland 
Tanzania, girls are not allowed back in school after having a child, 
yet they face pressure from teachers and other adults in the 
community to engage in sexual relations.  The campaign 
"SIDANDANYIKA" (I cannot be cheated) aims at empowering impoverished 
girl children to say no to sexual temptations or offers of financial 
support in exchange for sex, and has become a household phrase for 
many Tanzanians. 
 
7.  Nkya, a Commissioner for the National Tanzania AIDS Commission, 
has led TAMWA in media advocacy work on HIV and AIDS, especially in 
raising awareness of the need to provide Post Exposure Prophylaxis 
to survivors of rape.  Preventing, Treating, and Caring for those 
with HIV through "Strengthening Health Outcomes" is a key mission 
goal. 
 
Advocating for Women's Advancement 
---------------------------------- 
8.  In 2005, Nkya initiated a revolving scholarship fund with 
international donor support that has provided scholarships to 12 
TAMWA members for bachelor's degrees in journalism.  She also has 
championed a TAMWA project that provides a one-year exchange program 
in journalism to neighboring East African countries and Norway. 
Additionally, since 2003, Nkya has implemented activities to train 
women politicians and aspiring politicians to use media more 
effectively for political campaigns.  As a result, the number of 
women vying for political office has increased seven-fold since 
2000, and women have received a greater role in decision-making at 
all levels.  These actions support our MSP goals to "Improve the 
 
DAR ES SAL 00000846  002 OF 002 
 
 
Quality of Education" and "Promote Economic Growth and Prosperity." 
 
9.  Post has not yet informed Mrs. Nkya of this nomination, but 
believes she would willingly accept the award and would be available 
to travel in March 2010.  Full name: Ananilea Nkya; Job Title: 
Executive Director, Tanzania Media Women's Association (TAMWA); Date 
of Birth: 14 August 1958; Citizenship: Tanzanian; Address: P.O. Box 
24552, Dar es Salaam, Tanzania; E-mail: ananilea_nkya@yahoo.com; 
Languages: English, Kiswahili.  Post will forward additional details 
as required. 
 
10.  The Mission's point of contact for the IWOC nomination is 
Public Diplomacy Officer Karen Grissette (grisetteke@state.gov; +255 
22 266 8001 x 4158).