How to overcome rent seeking in Tanzania’s skills sector? Exploring feasible reforms through discrete choice experiments
Skills gaps and mismatches are widely documented as a hindrance to inclusive structural transformation across developing countries, especially in Africa. What is often overlooked, however, is the fact that skills development is a complex political economy process challenged by institutional and financing problems on the supply side, and inadequate demand, that is, a shortage of […]
Factors influencing Online Citizen Engagement at the Local Level in Tanzania
The adoption of e-participation adoption is found to be conditioned by the Information and Communication Technology (ICT) environment, government norms, ICT literacy and cost, and awareness among citizens and LLG leaders. The research implies that DOI power will increase when innovation testing is also included in the redesigning/ restructuring stage of the organisation’s innovation-decision process. […]
Democratisation in Tanzania: Re-examining citizens’ preferences for political party systems after 1992
The findings suggest an evolution of popular views on multipartism over time in contrast to reservations expressed to Justice Nyalali’s Commission in 1991. It is possible that, over time, many citizens have grown to prefer pluralism to a single party system because the speculated violence and societal division have not occurred. Also, they trust both […]
Motorcycle taxi riding and crimes in the urban settings of Dar es Salaam and Pwani Regions – Tanzania
The study reveals differences in crimes between regions. Findings further reveal that, while different initiatives are used to cope with crimes by both riders and their customers, sometimes motorcycle riders have brutally assaulted people they suspect to be criminals, even without any proof, which escalates the problem. As for customers in Dar es Salaam, the […]
Technology Shocks and Performance of Commercial Banks in Tanzania
The findings proved the need for banks to formulate relevant policies and strategies for their technology adoption programmes. The goal is to ensure they are concurrent with the goal of profit maximisation and the maximisation of shareholders’ wealth. The study also takes the liberty of calling out for banks to support those investments pertaining to […]
Adaptive Water Governance and Climate Change Resilience among Rural Communities in Kilosa District, Tanzania
Results in this study indicate that climate change is not a new phenomenon in the study area. Rural communities have lived with it and observed extreme climatic events such as reduced precipitations, long drought seasons and shifting of seasons, to mention a few. Rural communities in Parakuyo and Mabwerebwere Wards enhance their climate change resilience […]
Closing the Gender Performance Gap at Enterprise Level: Empirical Evidence from Tanzania
The findings of this study suggest that performance of women’s enterprises in Tanzania is determined by revenue, access to credit, levels of education, cost of labour and registration with the Tanzania Revenue Authority (TRA). Therefore, to close the gender performance gap, the government should increase access to credit, reduce cost of raw materials, provide education, […]
Vulnerability in the Context of the COVID-19 pandemic: a Case study of Motorcycle-Taxi Drivers in Dar es Salaam
The Tanzanian Government can use the study results to better understand the vulnerability issues related to motorcycle taxis in the country and formulate practices and policies to minimize their vulnerability and maximize their benefits. This will include raising awareness of Covid-19 and related precautionary measures. READ ON…!
Factors Influencing Smallholder Tomato Growers’ Access to and Uptake of Climate Change Information in Iringa and Morogoro Regions
This study assesses the factors influencing access to and uptake of climate change information for building adaptive capacity through awareness creation among smallholder tomato growers in selected rural parts of Tanzania. The study seeks to answer the following research questions: what are the factors that encourage access to and uptake of climate change information by […]
Examination of the Sociocultural Barriers Facing Women Miners in Morogoro and Manyara
The findings of the study indicated that the patriarchal ideology, negative social attitudes and gender-based and sexual violence were the main sociocultural barriers facing women miners in Morogoro and Manyara. However, the women miners in Morogoro reported higher mean values than their counterparts from Manyara in the areas of negative social and cultural norms and […]
Post-Harvest Losses in Marketed fruits and vegetables: Evidence from selected markets in Dar es Salaam
This study attempts to bridge the existing knowledge gap by focusing on post-harvest losses (PHL) in marketed fruits and vegetables in Dar es Salaam. There is arguably a limited but growing body of literature dedicated to studying PHLs in fruits and vegetables. There is even lesser attention, especially in developing economies, paid to losses incurred […]
Farmers’ Integrated Agricultural Marketing in Tanzania: Can’t the Digital Warehouse Receipt System Work?
Although the manual systems and processes are embraced to the point that the impression is created that digital transformation is not possible and the strong, efficient and effective digital systems and processes in the Warehouse Receipt System cannot work through cooperatives – transformation and digital transformation in the Warehouse Receipt System implemented through the AMCOS […]
Motorcycle Transport Business and Its Influence in Promoting Youth Employment in Tanzania: A Case of Morogoro Municipality
In the last decade, motorcycle transport has provided a new take off in the transportation industry, particularly in developing countries. This kind of transportation has gained significant popularity due to its nature of flexibility, affordability and adaptability attributes that have greatly increased its following among the youth, particularly in urban areas, where many of them […]
Tanzanians commend COVID-19 response but call for more investment in preparing for future health emergencies
A recent Afrobarometer survey reveals that about one in seven Tanzanian households report losing a primary source of income due to the pandemic. Only about three in 10 adults say they have been vaccinated against COVID-19, and willingness to get vaccinated is strongly associated with trust in the government to ensure vaccine safety. Tanzanians are […]
Tanzanian youth cite health, water, economy as priority problems government should address
The Afrobarometer Round 9 survey, conducted in 2022, sheds light on how the youth of Tanzania perceive the country’s political and economic landscape. Survey findings show that while Tanzanian youth are more educated than their elders, they are also more likely to be unemployed. A majority of young Tanzanians think their country is moving in […]
Locally-led adaptation: moving from principles to practice in the water sector
This Report focuses on locally-led adaptation in the water sector, examining progress and lessons learnt from water adaptation initiatives in East Africa’s drylands. The report introduces an assessment framework to evaluate how water adaptation projects align with the LLA principles, supplemented with a principle on Nature-based Solutions. The framework is then applied to examine six […]