The country’s economic context For about 10 years, Tanzania was among those sub-Saharan economies performing above the continent average economic growth rate and controlled inflation rate, before the effects of rising fuel and food prices and later the global crisis arrested this positive record. The country has also...
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One-time workshops and seminars have been criticized for various reasons including lack of effectiveness in helping teachers integrate technologies in education. This study investigated the impact of collaborative communities of practice for effective teacher learning regarding technology integration. Specifically the...
MKUKUTA Annual Implementation Report - MAIR 2007/08 is the second since the Government of Tanzania started implementing MKUKUTA in 2005/06. MKUKUTA focuses on three main clusters, namely Growth and Reduction of Income Poverty, Quality of Life and Social Wellbeing, and Good Governance and Accountability. MAIR 2007/08 p...
Collaborative course design in teacher design teams (TDTs) has proved to be a promising professional development arrangement. This study explored the potential of TDTs in orienting teachers on course redesign for e-learning delivery at the context of Open University of Tanzania (OUT). Three teachers from the Institute...
This paper describes a study on evaluation of the suitability of 19 audiovisual teaching materials Titled? Mazingira Yangu-Mazingira Yetu? for environmental education in schools, adults and continuing education in Tanzania. The objective of the materials is three fold. First is to raise public awareness and understand...
Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) concept as advocated by the Breton institutes is considered necessary for economic growth in developing countries. The concept was tied to overarching goal of poverty reduction hence justification for poor countries including Tanzania to implement the policy. Subsequently, the engineers...
Building a knowledge-based society is among the sub-pillars of the Tanzania Vision 2025, which “envisages [Tanzania as] developing into [an] information and knowledge-based society with a vision to have a universally accessible broadband infrastructure and ICT as well as expertise that enhance sustainable socio-eco...
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...
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)...
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...
The author makes a critical examination of the contribution of political leadership in the economic development and change of Tanzania since her 1961 political independence from Britain. He divides the country's economic development and change into three more or less discrete time epochs. The first epoch is the period...
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