The organisational and administrative structure of REPOA consists of:

The Annual General Meeting
The Board of Directors
The Technical Advisory Committee
Staff Members

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The members of the Annual General Meeting comprise of: Ordinary (voting) members, Associate/honorary (non-voting) members, Board members, and Technical Advisory Committee members (both voting and non-voting). These members may be associated with the government of Tanzania, the private sector, civil society organisations, research bodies and donor organisations.

The main responsibilities of the AGM are:

• To receive and consider the financial statements and the reports of the Board of Directors;
  
• To appoint an auditor and fix their fees;
  
• To elect members of the Board of Directors and fix their fees;
  
• To admit and dismiss members of REPOA;
  
• To fix fees, annual subscriptions and any other contributions paid by members;
  
• To make any amendments to the Memorandum and Articles of Association as desired; and
  
• To transact any other business as prescribed in the Memorandum and Articles of Association.
  

These responsibilities are stated in REPOA's Memorandum and Articles of Association.

The current members of the AGM are listed here

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The Board of Directors consists of twelve members, representing a wide range of stakeholders. They are appointed on their own merit. The current Board has four members from the government, one from the NGO sector, two from the private sector and five from the academic and research community.

The Board's primary role is to provide guidance for and supervision of REPOA. Its specific responsibilities are:

• To determine policies, norms, procedures and guidelines;
  
• To appoint and discipline senior members of staff;
  
• To administer movable and immovable property of REPOA;
  
• To administer funds and other assets of REPOA; and
  
• To receive gifts, donations, grants and other monies on behalf of REPOA.
  

The current members of the Board of Directors are listed here.


The Technical Advisory Committee consists of nine members, selected from leading policy makers and researchers. The Committee is responsible for providing technical advice to the Board and the Staff members on matters of research and training.

The specific responsibilities of the Committee are:

• To determine and recommend to the Board REPOA's agenda on research and training;
  
• To recommend to the Board proposals for grants on research and training; and
  
• To advise the Staff members on various programmes including dissemination of research results and on how to link researchers and research users.
  

The current members of the Technical Advisory Committee are listed here

The duties of REPOA's Staff members are to administer programmes, provide logistical support to researchers and link programmes to policy makers and relevant stakeholders.

Our staff includes several researchers and research assistants. This is linked to one of our objectives, i.e. to undertake rigorous independent research on poverty issues. REPOA not only commissions researchers to undertake research, it also has its own research capacity to conduct independent research.

The current members of REPOA's staff are listed here.