Sarah M. Durant*†, Meggan E. Craft†, Ray Hilborn, Sultana Bashir, Justin Hando and Len Thomas Institute of Zoology, Zoological Society of London, Regent’s Park, London, NW1 4RY, UK; Tanzania Wildlife Research Institute, Box 661, Arusha, Tanzania; Wildlife Conservation Society, 2300 Southern Boulevard, Bronx, NY 10460, USA; Boyd Orr Centre for Population and Ecosystem Health, College of Medical,...

Free-ranging local chicken flocks are important for the livelihood of resource-poor rural farmers in Tanzania, as they provide a critical source of animal protein and a ready source of income through the sale of chickens and eggs. An occurrence of highly pathogenic avian influenza (HPAI) in the village setting of Tanzania would result in a disastrous loss of livelihood. This paper attempts to o...

BACKGROUND Prompted by the need to achieve progress in health outcomes, payment for performance (P4P) schemes are becoming popular policy options in the health systems in many low income countries. This paper describes the policy process behind the introduction of a payment for performance scheme in the health sector of Tanzania illuminating in particular the interests of and roles played by th...

DFID Using AMCs to promote green mini-grids in Tanzania ii Executive Summary This annex considers how Advance Market Commitments (AMCs) might be used to promote the development of green mini-grids in Tanzania. It is one of two case studies Vivid Economics has undertaken to complement its report on the economics of AMCs. The second case study concerns the development of micro-Concentrated Solar ...

1 BugandoMedical Centre Care and Treatment Center/Baylor College of Medicine Children’s Foundation Tanzania, Mwanza, Tanzania, 2 Department of Internal Medicine, Catholic University of Health & Allied Sciences–Bugando, Mwanza, Tanzania, 3 Center for Global Health, Weill Cornell Medical College, New York, New York, United States of America, 4 Department of Internal Medicine, Weill Cornell Medica...

background global health policy is created largely through a collaborative process between development agencies and aid-recipient governments, yet it remains unclear whether governments retain ownership over the creation of policy in their own countries. an assessment of the power structure in this relationship and its influence over agenda-setting is thus the first step towards understanding ...

background micronutrient deficiency in tanzania is a significant public health problem, with vitamin a deficiency (vad) affecting 34% of children aged 6 to 59 months. since 2007, development partners have worked closely to advocate for the inclusion of twice-yearly vitamin a supplementation and deworming (vasd) activities with budgets at the subnational level, where funding and implementation o...

Human plague remains a public health concern in Tanzania despite its quiescence in most foci for years, considering the recurrence nature of the disease. Despite the long-standing history of this problem, there have not been recent reviews of the current knowledge on plague in Tanzania. This work aimed at providing a current overview of plague in Tanzania in terms of its introduction, potential...

The major purpose of this chapter is to explore the options of Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs) to complement conventional agricultural extension services in Tanzania. Group discussions and meetings were conducted to investigate the role of ICTs in extension services delivery using CATWOE framework of Soft Systems Methodology. The findings of the study reveal that the use of SS...

The major challenge for the tomato farmers is getting a fair price at the market price given that there are many actors involved in the tomato value chain. Given this situation, this project's goal was to improve communication pathways in dissemination of agricultural market information in tomato value chains in Iringa and Dodoma Regions in Tanzania. The specific objectives were to: identify an...