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Manka Martin Kway
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Background
Civic education may be defined as the process of educating citizens on their rights, duties and responsibilities to empower and motivate them to identify what areas of the political and governance processes they can effectively participate in and what they can do to influence political outcomes and thereby improve the quality of governance at both local and national levels. DSW Tanzania through Healthy Action Project, conducted civic education training in three villages of Meru district to build capacity of community members in areas of good governance, health system and to enable them to understand their health and civil rights. Issues of transparency, citizen‟s participation and empowerment, government responsiveness, accountability, and equity were also discussed. After different presentations on health systems, good governance, health and civil rights by DSW, community members were able to identify challenges faced while accessing health services. Major challenges identified by community members include:
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