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Participatory Forest Management in Tanzania: 1993 - 2009

Tanzania was one of the first countries on the African continent to formally recognise the role of communities in managing and owning forests. A number of pilot activities implemented in the early 1990s under the Sida-funded LAMP project in the well-known forests of Duru-Haitemba, Mgori and Suledo paved the way for im...

Anti-Corruption and Access to Information: The Right to Information Bill, 2007

Today the epidemic of corruption continues to cripple Tanzania. According to the 2008 Corruption Perceptions Index (CPI) of Transparency International (TI), Tanzania ranks 102nd out of the 180 countries surveyed, receiving a score of 3 on a scale of 10 with 10 being totally clean and 0 being totally corrupt (TI, 2008)...

Politics, Leadership, Resources Utilization and Economic Development in Tanzania from Julius Kambarage Nyerere to Jakaya Kikwete: Strengths and Weaknesses

This is a review paper which aims at illustrating the effects of politics on appointments of national leaders in a given country who in turn affect the formulation of national policies which affect the xtent of the country’s resource utilization and hence its economic development. This relationship is demonstrated by...

Contextualized IT Education in Tanzania: Beyond Standard IT Curricula.

Tumaini University at Iringa, Tanzania, started a new B.Sc. program in IT in 2007. In the course of planning and implementation of the program, we found out that standard ACM/IEEE IT curricula are not adequate for an IT program in a poor, developing country. The standard curricula describe, in detail, the competences...