22 October 2019
Eastern Africa: Peasants and Plainstrators
Currently both the practices and the theories of rural development in Uganda, Kenya, Tanzania, and Zambia put special emphasis on 'the...
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22 October 2019
Currently both the practices and the theories of rural development in Uganda, Kenya, Tanzania, and Zambia put special emphasis on 'the...
This research is part of the project 'Sustainable development solutions for Tanzania' - strengthening research to achieve SDGs, a...
9 October 2019
Published by: IDS
Women’s childcare responsibilities are often seen as a barrier to them undertaking paid work. However, this is a two-way interaction, mediated by large quantities of unpaid work. Women thus find themselves in a downward spiral of a ‘triple burden’ consisting of (a) time‑consuming, yet unpaid work with no economic returns to them; (b) informal and back‑breaking low-paid work; and (c) supervisory childcare and domestic tasks like cooking, cleaning, and fetching water and fuel.
1 August 2019
Scorecards are an increasingly popular instrument aiming to advance accountability for nutrition. Often devised at national level, growing interest is now emerging in subnational application. This paper presents a protocol for how a subnational scorecard may be developed in a participatory manner, summarising our experience doing so in two districts of Tanzania: Morogoro and Kigoma.
10 July 2019
Published by: IDS
Interventions promoting productive use of electricity (PUE) without gender approaches are more likely to benefit men than women. Men typically own more businesses and operate in a wider range of more productive, electricity‑intensive activities. Gender approaches improve the effectiveness of PUE projects, benefiting both men and women as productive electricity users and increasing electricity suppliers’ financial sustainability.
3 July 2019
Published by: BMC
With increasing demand for red meat in Tanzania comes heightened potential for zoonotic infections in animals and humans that...
2 July 2019
Published by: Itad
Adaptive Management involves a dynamic interaction between three elements: delivery, programming and governance. This case study focuses...
25 June 2019
Published by: Itad
Fragile, conflict and violence-affected settings (FCVAS) are messy and ambiguous contexts in which to plan and implement development...
18 June 2019
Published by: IDS
A demand-supply framework has been developed and applied to Tanzania to explore the link between democratisation, economic...
6 June 2019
Published by: Institute of Development Studies
Public finance theory suggests that property tax is an ideal local tax. But it’s also a ‘data-hungry’ tax, making it difficult and...