Publications
This section contains all publications produced by Twaweza. It also includes some produced by our partners. To access the publication click on the download link below each title. To access a summary click on 'read more'. Many of these are pdfs of hard copy materials or powerpoint presentations so check file size before you download.
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The Community Together: Observations from Immersion 2012
11 May 2012
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| Learning and Evaluation
In March 2012 the Twaweza East Africa team, in conjuction with Daraja, did a week long immersion in Njombe, in the southern highlands of Tanzania. During our immersion, we saw communities working together to bring change to their lives. In the absence of specific services and facilities, the community works together with leadership from inspiring individuals to fill the gaps.
While it is impossible to neatly sum up or come to any definite conclusions about what we experienced, we have put together some observations from participants. View our presentation, The Community Together, to read of our observations on access to information, power, change, education, health and water.
While it is impossible to neatly sum up or come to any definite conclusions about what we experienced, we have put together some observations from participants. View our presentation, The Community Together, to read of our observations on access to information, power, change, education, health and water.
- Immersion 2012 | 950.14 KB
Twaweza Annual Report 2011
9 May 2012
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Our Annual Report for 2011, a year of the glass half full and half empty, has been released.
In 2011 we failed to develop as many partnerships as anticipated, or enough of an ecosystem effect between partners, or spend our budget. At the same time, we sharpened our approaches and investments, fostered innovative citizen monitoring, influenced national policies (particularly in education), stimulated the public imagination in interesting ways, and played a key role in establishing a major global initiative. Our main evaluations got off the ground and began to generate valuable lessons. We could interpret the facts to tell a compelling story about 2011 in either direction; the truth in all likelihood is that we have both succeeded powerfully and fallen short.
In 2011 we failed to develop as many partnerships as anticipated, or enough of an ecosystem effect between partners, or spend our budget. At the same time, we sharpened our approaches and investments, fostered innovative citizen monitoring, influenced national policies (particularly in education), stimulated the public imagination in interesting ways, and played a key role in establishing a major global initiative. Our main evaluations got off the ground and began to generate valuable lessons. We could interpret the facts to tell a compelling story about 2011 in either direction; the truth in all likelihood is that we have both succeeded powerfully and fallen short.
- Twaweza Annual Report 2011 |
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Safe schools, productive students: New booklets from Raising Voices and Twaweza
8 May 2012
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Ugandan NGO Raising Voices and Twaweza have collaborated on publishing four booklets on issues in East African education: corporal punishment, positive discipline, what makes a good teacher, and how to create a positive learning environment. The booklets will be distributed in Tanzania and Uganda.
- Corporal punishment in school | 1.74 MB
- Corporal punishment in school |
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This is life in Dar es Salaam
25 Apr 2012
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Take a walk through Mburahati, a neighbourhood of Dar es Salaam, with resident Naziru Ndimu. He and his friends share stories of daily life in one part of urban Tanzania- the struggle to access quality health care, how money needs to pass hands to make things move (and where can one find that cash?), the meddling of outside players with their interventions that never come to pass. Life is a struggle in Mburahati.
Hunting for Per Diems
23 Apr 2012
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Payment of per diems and allowances has been a matter of debate in East Africa for quite some time. A new report entitled 'Hunting for Per Diem- The Uses and Abuses of Travel Compensation in Three Developing Countries' was presented in Oslo, Norway on 23 April 2012 at a seminar organized by the Norwegian Agency for Development Cooperation (Norad). The Chr. Michelsen Insitute carried out the study in Tanzania, Malawi and Ethiopia in 2011. In a talk given by video at the seminar, Twaweza Head Rakesh Rajani offered his critique of the paper.
- Hunting for Per Diem: The Uses and Abuses of Travel Compensation in Three Developing Countries | 1.67 MB
Citizens can drive change
19 Apr 2012
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Twaweza believes that informed and motivated citizens are the most powerful agents of change. With information, ideas, tools and confidence, citizens across East Africa are making things happen and holding governments accountable to deliver better basic services- education where children learn, clean water and better health care. We get behind these initiatives to make them gain greater momentum.
ICTs as a key driver for governance in sub-Saharan Africa?
Do ICTs drive governance in sub-Saharan Africa? Do citizens? Danida, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Denmark, held a conference in Copenhagen on April 12 on the the theme, 'ICT as a key driver for governance in sub-Saharan Africa: Strategies for using the transformative power of mobile phones and social media.' Guest speakers debated the potential for mobile phones and technology to boost democracy, transparency, accountability and citizen agency.
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