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Follow Your Money: Kenya Budget Visualisation Dashboard
31 May 2012
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Follow the money!
The Kenya Budget Visualisation Dashboard from Uwazi is now up. The site allows citizens to view how public funds were spent by financial year from 2002 to 2011, and within each county of the country.
Follow Your Money: Tanzania Budget Visualisation Dashboard
20 Mar 2012
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Follow the money!
Uwazi has developed the Tanzania Budget Explorer, which will be updated every year, to make information about the way the Treasury allocates taxpayers money more accessible: transparent, easy to understand and exciting to follow.
State of East Africa Report 2012 stirs debate on greater regional integration
25 Apr 2012
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Announcements
The Society for International Development (SID) released 'The 2012 State of East Africa Report: Deepening Integration, Intensifying Challenges' on 24 April 2012 in Dar es Salaam. The annual report compares cultural, economic, political, social and technological trends across the five East African Community countries (Burundi, Kenya, Rwanda, Tanzania and Uganda). The report's objectives are to inform, provide insight, spark imagination and be a tool for engagement.
'Lost generation in science education'
31 Aug 2012
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Twaweza in the news
'Education experts fear an entire generation of students, passing through ward secondary schools, will miss opportunities to enter science-related fields in future. The biggest threats facing these schools- whose learners are mostly from poor families- include a severe shortage of teachers, laboratories and books,' Erick Kabendera's article, 'Ward secondary schools: a lost generation in science education' begins.
Uwezo report stirs discussion in East Africa
23 Aug 2012
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Twaweza in the news
Discussion continues around the findings of the 2011 Uwezo Learning Assessment, which revealed that two out of three pupils in Standard 3 across East Africa are not able to pass basic tests in English, Kiswahili or numeracy at the Standard 2 level.
Coming soon: Kenya Budget Dashboard
10 Apr 2012
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Kenyans will soon be able to track how their government spends their money on Twaweza's Kenya Budget Dashboard. Development of the Kenyan portal started in December 2011 after successful work on Tanzania's. On the Kenyan Dashboard, citizens can view the percentage of the national budget that went to the various ministries from 2002 to 2011, as well as compare resources distributed to each of the country's counties.
No prescription? No problem
27 Aug 2012
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Twaweza in the news
Feeling sick and have no time to go to a doctor? Just pop by your neighbourhood pharmacy and nine times out of 10 you'll be sold the medicine for what may (or may not) ail you. Youth Initiatives Tanzania (YITA), in association with Twaweza, investigated whether pharmacies in Dar es Salaam observe regulations regarding sales to consumers.
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