Tanzania Election Observation Centre

Tanzania Election Observation Centre (TEOC), a new model to be used by major domestic and international election observation groups for monitoring and observing electoral processes in Tanzania is one of the CEMOT’s initiatives. Though modern Information Communication Technology (ICT), the Centre provides a platform for generating and sharing information as well as engaging state and non-state actors in a constructive manner to ensure credible, free and fair elections. The TEOC platform is supported by
the CEMOT Secretariat, teams of IT experts, deployed 350 Long-term Observers (LTOs) and about 10,000 Poll Watchers/Short-term Observers (STOs) to be deployed towards the voting day.

The main objectives of establishing the TEOC are several but the key ones are:

         
           i. To be a platform for timely generation and sharing of information pertaining to the observation of the democratic processes;

 ii. To enhance citizens oversight on the democratic processes in the country;

iii.To monitor and track, as an early warning system, all potential of election related               violence and irregularities that would impair/undermine freeness and fairness of the democratic processes and refer them to the respective authorities for action;

iv. To engage the Electoral Management Bodies (EMBs) and law enforcers in a constructive manner in order to ensure that the information gathered is acted upon expeditiously for         the purpose of ensuring rapid response.

The Tanzania Election Observation Centre (TEOC) is known as uchaguziwetu2015 (literary ‘our election 2015’) in the online world and it includes all major social media. The essence is to engage citizens to be part of the observation process through social media engagement.

Web: www.uchaguziwetu2015.org

Twitter: @uchaguziwetu15

Facebook: uchaguziwetu2015

Instagram: uchaguziwetu2015

Youtube: uchaguziwetu2015

Google+: uchaguziwetu2015

Blog: blog. Uchaguziwetu.blogspot.com

email: sema@uchaguziwetu2015.org

Apart from participating through social media, citizens are invited to share information through sms using our short code 15460. With sms, the process is simple, just text word ‘uchaguzi’ leave space, write your comment, concern or info and send it to 15460.

At the moment, the Tanzania Election Observation Centre (TEOC) is located at CEMOT offices located at GEPF Building 7^th Floor, Wing B along Ali Hassan Mwinyi Road (opposite Victoria Filling station) in Dar es Salaam. The TEOC will move to Hyatt Regency, The Kilimanjaro Hotel Kivukoni Road, Dar es Salaam between 20^th October and 5^th November 2015.