Sunday, March 30, 2008

RESEARCH

PROPOSAL

ON

MASSIVE INCREASE OF MASAI YOUTH (MORANS)

IN

TOWNS AND CITIES



INTRODUCTION

ABOUT OSOTWA

OSOTWA is a Pastoral students association, is a student run organization, non-profit making organization, non- political and professional society of the University of Dar es Salaam. It is registered and recognized in and out of University of Dar es Salaam. It is a constitutionally built organization with the aim of imparting spirit of Unity anti-poverty, skills, creativity, charity to its members, students of other high learning institutions who will subsequently spread those attitude and skills to the rest of the society.

OUR VISION

Building a pastoralist society with demonstrated integrity.

OUR MISSION
Racing ant-poverty sprit and promote awareness and unity among students and other prominent individuals and import it to the pastoral societies as whole.


OUR GOALS/OBJECTIVES
Among others as provided by OSOTWA constitution are:-

1) Solving social, economic, and academic problems facing its members
2) Strive to promote unity among people of Pastoralists origin so as to find better solution of all social, economic, academic and cultural problems commonly facing Pastoralists society.
3) Making consultation with Prominent individuals, NGO’s operating in pastoral areas, Government Pastorals and other institutions with the role of poverty alleviation and rural development to see on how we can address those common problems in the pastoral societies.

Our function
Among others, our function care
- To link high learning students hading from pastoral areas and other potential individual and professionals with the same visions.
- To initiate sponsors or undertake activities for the benefit of its members and society at large.
- To invite distinguished personalities
Personalities such as academic professionals and social dignitaries to interact with the OSOTWA members in various ways according to students by laws.

Therefore by virtue of the whole above, the OSOTWA is proudly to acknowledge you/your good office/company/society/NG’O’S that it intends to conduct a research on the massive increase of masai youth in Towns and Cities.

Research prescription
This proposal aims to facilitate the accomplishment of the research and success of the same.

Goals of the Research
-To reduce the level of poverty, ignorance in pastoral societies by providing good results of a well (researched) problem of which after evaluation better solutions will be obtained.

- To remedy the problems resulted from massive increase
Research objectives/statement of need

General the OSOTWA members aims/expect to make an outreach purposely to make a research on the following areas relevant to a formational research title.

(i) Reasons behind, massive increase of masai youth in cities and TOWAS being pulling and pushing factors.
(ii) Types of activities mainly they do to make their life sustainable.

Examine or equate wages/salaries given to them or income if any in relation to the weight of the jobs they do.

4) Going deeply questioning their daily means and accommodations.
5) Known whether they five with their families in cities or not married.
6) Censuring them regionally
7) To check their employments conditions if favorable according to employments and labour laws.
8) Research on how they prevent themselves against dangerous deceases like malaria and HIV, AIDS, and how much have they already been affected by those diseases.
9) Researchers will also deeply asking them whether they still have an idea of going back to their home or otherwise
10)To know their level of education.
11)Sending some of OSOTWA members as assistant researchers to their home of origin, to get more and exact information pertaining to the following.

· Reasons for their migrations
· The demerits or merits if any as the result of their sons,relatives being in Towns and cities.
· Asses the economic and social outcomes in masai areas in relation to their absence in home land.
· To obtain recommendations from their parents and their relatives pertaining to their presence in cities and Towns.

Benefit to society
- The researchers will have a ample time and opportunities to transfer the knowledge and skills they have to entire society
- Other related problems facing masai community will get a room to discussed
- Integrate the masai/pastoralist communities against their common problems.
- All social, economic problems resulted from these type of migration will find better solutions.


- Building a community which respect human rights and dignity.
- After Research evaluation will be able to have a single voice against any in human treatment to those mirans living in towns/cities.
- Society will also get education on those serious diseases like HIV.

BENEFIT TO DONORS
· Popularizing effects of massive increase of morans in cities all over the country.
· It will increase your role in the war against poverty and ignorance.
· Bridging the gap which exist between you/your office/company/organization and OSOTWA members in eliminating poverty in Pastoral societies.
· Getting a copy of a researched problem after evaluation for further activities
· We also enable you/your office to extend/expand the chances of accommodating educated young people to help you carrying out duties of the same.
· OSOTWA as great sackers, expects much from you. Your material (financial) support as funder will make the whole programme achieve it is goals.

Sustainability of the programme
The proposal research will be a starting point of the campaign against poverty (MKUKUTA) to pastoral societies especially those living in Towns. This will enable OSOTWA members to organize year/ or semester wise campaigns, seminars strengthening anti-poverty spirit among members.

Programme administration/management/ staffing
OSOTWA is a students organization constitutionally recognized and as provided by UDSM Act. It works under it is patron/matron who is responsible for management of all activities of the association.

OSOTWA also has it is administrative body who are students themselves. OSOTWA Executive committee comprises, Chairman of association and assistant chairperson, treasurer, and secretaries.

OSOTWA also has body of Advisors. Therefore the above mentioned people will be responsible for management of the programme, evaluation and production of the report in condensed form.

Staffing qualifications

i) Patron
ii) Excom(OSOTWA leaders) undergraduate from deferent faculties.
iii) Body of advisors post – graduate degree holders.

Generaly OSOTWA comprises undergraduate and post graduate students.

METHODOLOGY
Different methods will be used to ensure exact and accurate collections of data. This will include one seminars to researchers.

- Sending researchers to five chosen masai district for data collection.
- Making meetings with village and word councils (VEO and WODC)
- For those who will be doing research in the city needs to collect the targeted people (morans) differently and interview them.
- Use of questioner.
- Doing various congregations with targeted people.
- Case study
- Brains terming

SPECIFIED AREAS FOR RESEARCH
- Dar es Salaam City
- Monduli districtly Ngorongoro, Longido, Simanjiro and Kiteto.

DURATION
- The proposal research time 2 weeks
- Collection of research results one week
- Research evaluation one week total time for research to be accomplished is 4 weeks. Starting from May 20 – June 20

Number of Researchers
(a) In the City 25 people
(b) Down to contusive 30 people

Total 55 people















THE LOGICAL FAME WORK FOR – THE WHOLE POGRAME


Objective Verifiable indicators
Sources of Verifications
Assumption
es. Aim Poverty alleviation
- Self – awareness
Social, change of those masai youth living in cities and secrete at large.
Readiness to stop poverty and ignorance.
Objectives
- The reasons for massive increase of masai youth in cities
- Making outreach
- They are life standard
Togetherness among the associations NG’O’S, potential individuals and students working together
Researchers reports
All three demerits of them being in cities will be reveled.
* Also their life standard will be measurable
ACTIVITIES
- Meetings (conferences)
- Seminars
- Research
- NG’O’S
- Village and word readers
- Researcher (students)
Minutes and records of sessions
Availability and commitment of the targeted people.
INPUT
- Research materials
- Transport
- Funds
- Allowances
- Stationeries
- Transport fees
- Night allowances
- Research
- Reports
Funding Agencies responding accordingly.
















TENTATED BUDGET

NO
ITEM
QUANTITY
AMOUNT
TOTAL
1
Stationary

200,000/=
200,000/=
2
Staffing
6 people
1000,000/=
1000,000/=
3
Necessaries
@ meals and accommodation, transfer
i) Those doing research in Dar. 15,000/= per day (25).




ii) Those going to villages 20,000/= per day (30)
15,000
X
101
X
25
5,250,000/=


20,000/=
X
14
X
30













8,400,000/=
136,50,000/=
4
Seminar for researchers before starting the Programme
- Researcher and 2 facilitator s
- Meals and soft drinks
500,000/=
500,000/=
5
Research results collection
4 people OSOTWA Ex.COM
- Night allowance including transport 10,000 per day
- For one week
4x10,000/=
40,000x7
280,000/=



280,000/=





6
Research evaluation
3 people
- Patron
- One Excom leader
One Advisor
200,000/=
200,000/=


TOTAL
14,930,000/=




15,830,000/=

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