The right to vote is among the pillars of a representative democracy. promotes democracy by ensuring that citizens participate indirectly in affairs government their country freely electing leaders they want. This article examines theoretical and practical aspects Tanzania. In particular, provides critical examination laws practices relating parliamentary elections Tanzania implications for vot...

In recent years the funders of development projects have become more insistent that careful evaluation of projects be integrated into p randomized assignment— not always even conceptually feasible. undertaken by Savannas Forever Tanzania (a Tanzania University of Minnesota, undertaken at the scale of a small number of the conceptual foundations of the in rural Tanzanian villages. The central id...

LADDER is a research project funded by the Policy Research Programme of the UK Department for International Development (DFID) that seeks to identify alternative routes by which the rural poor can climb out of poverty. LADDER is working with nearly 40 villages and 1,200 households in Uganda, Tanzania, Malawi and Kenya to discover the blocking and enabling agencies in the institutional environme...

BACKGROUND The shortage of a skilled health workforce is a global crisis. International efforts to combat the crisis have shown few benefits; therefore, more country-specific efforts are required. Tanzania adopted health sector reforms in the 1990s to ensure, among other things, availability of an adequate skilled health workforce. Little is documented on how the post-reform training and deploy...

The Research on poverty Alleviation (REPOA) is a not-forprofit Non-Governmental Organisation registered in Tanzania in November, 1994. Its overall objective is to deepen the understanding of causes, extent, nature, rate of change and means of combating poverty in Tanzania. The specific objectives focus on development of local research capacity, development of poverty research network, enhancing...

Citation: Sambo M, Johnson PCD, Hotopp K, Changalucha J, Cleaveland S, Kazwala R, Lembo T, Lugelo A, Lushasi K, Maziku M, Mbunda E, Mtema Z, Sikana L, Townsend SE and Hampson K (2017) Comparing Methods of Assessing Dog Rabies Vaccination Coverage in Rural and Urban Communities in Tanzania. Front. Vet. Sci. 4:33. doi: 10.3389/fvets.2017.00033 comparing Methods of assessing Dog rabies Vaccination...

Island biogeography theory predicts that species will be lost on habitat "islands" created by the fragmentation o f continental regions. Many Tanzanian parks are rapidly becoming habitat islands as a result o f human settlement, agricultural development, and the active elimination o f wildlife on adjacent lands. The rate o f extinction o f mammals in six Tanzanian parks over the last 35-83 year...

Dear Editor: Studies such as that carried out by He et al 1 are important to anyone interested in developing financially sustainable eye care services in less developed countries. We have studied acceptance of cataract surgery and willingness to pay for it in Tanzania and found interesting similarities and some differences in our population. As in China, those with the lowest visual acuity (VA)...

on 6 th november, the ambassador of norway launched the project 'Making reDD work for communities and forest conservation in tanzania'. the project is a partnership project between the tanzania Forest conservation Group (tFcG) and the tanzanian community Forest conservation network (MjuMIta). the project aims to reduce greenhouse gas emissions from deforestation and forest degradation in tanzan...

Testing Uptake in Northern Tanzania Julia Beamesderfer; Andrew Weinhold; Julian Hertz; O. Michael Munishi; John A. Crump; Elizabeth Reddy; Duke Global Health Institute, Durham, NC; Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA; Duke Center for Health Policy and Inequalities Research, Durham, NC; Division of Infectious Diseases and International Health, Department of ...