Values and Life Skills ​ thematic group​

Tanzania

In everyday life, the development of life skills helps students to find new ways of thinking, solving problems, building their confidence both in spoken skills and for group collaboration and cooperation, and teaches them to take responsibility for what they do.  This group works to generate and share evidence and strengthening practices that support the acquisition of values and life skills in East Africa. This involves coming up with ways of understanding, nurturing, and assessing life skills acquisition and how they are being applied in the lives of the child and supporting the integration of values and life skills in the education system and curriculum.

Thematic leads

Benedicta Mrema

Thematic Group Co-Lead, Values and Life-Skills

  • Thematic Group Co-Lead, Values and Life-Skills

Benedicta Mrema

Benedicta Mrema is a Program Officer in the Department of Media Engagement and Advocacy at HakiElimu -Tanzania. She is Media and Communication personnel with 14 years working experience in media houses and NGOs in Tanzania. She holds a B.A Degree in Public Relations and Advertising and master’s degree in mass communication both from The University of Dar es Salaam.

Benedicta’s experiences are anchored on Media and Communication, Public Relations, TV and Radio program preparation and presentation, Documentary V/O narration, media negotiations and buying, events organizing and facilitation as well as public speaking. At HakiElimu Benedicta worked with RELI Tanzania as Assistant Program Officer responsible for coordinating and supporting RELI Tanzania learning activities.

In her current role as a program officer at HakiElimu, she is responsible for coordinating and facilitating major media survey on the implementation of re-entry guideline in Tanzania, organizing and facilitating media engagement including press conferences, coordinating Good School Kit Project in Masasi District, organizing and facilitating production of short video clips on education issues for HakiElimu YouTube channel, organizing and supporting HakiElimu to participate in various National and international education events and exhibitions.

In Tanzania RELI leadership team Benedicta is a co-lead in VaLi thematic group where she helps to bring members together in the implementation of thematic group plans.

Samson Sitta

Thematic group lead, Values and Life Skills

Samson Sitta

As a project management specialist, researcher, evaluator, design thinker and learning facilitator; Samson has over 7 years’ experience working for both government and NGO sector in Tanzania mainland and Zanzibar. He has managed several transformative education programs for local NGOs such as CBEI – Community Based Education Intervention in Dar es Salaam. In 2018 he led a study on covid 19 impact on learners during school closures in Ngorongoro and Longido districts, Arusha which let into design of a Rapid Learning Approach (RLA), an innovative approach to assist the left behind learners. RLA is currently being tested in Ngorongoro district – Arusha.

Samson is a national advisory committee member for Schools2030 Project in Tanzania and a trainer on Human Centered Design in Tanzania mainland and Zanzibar. Sitta is part of the team that is pioneering contextualized assessment of life skills and values in East Africa under the novel ALiVE Project. He currently works with Milele Zanzibar Foundation (MZF) based in Zanzibar as the Coordinator for ALiVE Project.

In the RELI Tanzania leadership, Sitta leads the Values and Life Skills thematic group.

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