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Uwezo at Harvard

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Keywords: ASER education Twaweza Uwezo Uwezo Kenya

State of East Africa Report 2012 stirs debate on greater regional integration

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Keywords: East Africa education health infrastructure mobile phones State of East Africa report

Students Say: Teachers absent from school too often

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This is life in Dar es Salaam

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Keywords: Baseline survey Citizen Agency Tanzania Twaweza video

Hunting for Per Diems

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Keywords: allowances Rakesh Rajani Presentation

Citizens can drive change

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Keywords: Citizen Agency Theory of Change Twaweza

ICTs as a key driver for governance in sub-Saharan Africa?

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Keywords: Citizen Agency governance ICT Rakesh Rajani

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D.Light: Solar lamps for students

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The Dar es Salaam based social venture company D.Light ltd. had a plan to distribute ten thousand solar re-chargeable lamps to secondary schools students and teachers in Tanzania, so as to provide them with an affordable, clean and healthy source of light. Twaweza found the technological intervention compelling; several studies have shown that access to clean, reliable light can improve learning and reduce illness, and the solar lamps would also help reduce carbon emissions and make light more affordable in the medium to long term. But with over a million students, ten thousand lamps would ... Read more...