Are services working? :: Uwazi :: Twaweza.org http://twaweza.org Twaweza.org can make it happen. en-en http://twaweza.org/images/twaweza-logo.jpg Are services working? :: Uwazi :: Twaweza.org http://twaweza.org <![CDATA[High frequency monitoring]]> http://twaweza.org/index.php?i=745 http://twaweza.org/index.php?i=745
Jointly with Datavision, Uwazi has initiated a weekly mobile phone survey in Dar es Salaam. To make this happen, first a baseline survey was implemented amongst 550 households. Click on questionnaire (PDF) or dataset (STATA) to download the particulars for this survey.



To date almost 20 rounds of the mobile phone survey have been held. Topics covered include




  • Price paid for water


  • How children sit at school


  • Reliability of electricity


  • Rain, drainage and flooding


  • Mobile phone usage


  • Garbage and garbage collection


  • Teacher performance


  • Banking


  • Public sanitation facilities


  • Road safety


  • Services at health facilities


  • Inflation and price changes


  • Constitutional review


  • Use of bed nets


  • Knowledge about complaint mechanisms



Information from these mobile surveys is captured in another data set, that can be downloaded by clicking here. The baseline data set and the mobile response data set can be combined by merging the two datasets using the household identifier (hhid).



As of July 2011 the mobile phone data gathering will no longer be managed by Uwazi but will be handled by: third party results monitoring. Click here for more information about this initiative. 


]]> Tue, 24 May 2011 13:17:00 +0000 <![CDATA[Scanning budget books ]]> http://twaweza.org/index.php?i=749 http://twaweza.org/index.php?i=749
The budget books are publicly available and can be obtained from the Ministry of Finance. To make the budget books more easily accessible, Uwazi has started scanning the 2010/2011 budget books to make them available in machine readable format.



It is envisaged that by end March 2011, the scanned budget books will be available in excel.



 



Step 1: obtain the budget books





Step 2: prepare for scanning





Step 3: scan the individual pages





Step 4: edit scanned pages





Step 5: prepare an excel file




]]> Tue, 01 Mar 2011 14:23:00 +0000 <![CDATA[Independent Statistics Review]]> http://twaweza.org/index.php?i=746 http://twaweza.org/index.php?i=746 Strengthening statistics through independent review and assessment

Independent Statistics Review provides a stamp of quality assurance on statistics in Tanzania. The Statistics Reviewer is completely impartial and independent – however the Statistics Reviewer works closely with producers of statistics, including the National Bureau of Statistics, as well as users and funders of data.


Statistics review is a new concept jointly developed by the National Bureau of Statistics (NBS), the accountability and transparency initiative (ACT) and Uwazi. Following international advertisement, Mr. Tim Harris was appointed as first Independent Statistics Reviewer. Mr Harris started working January 1st 2011.

Over the coming months a series of in-depth and lighter reviews will be conducted, with the reports available on the Statistics Review Tanzania website (under construction). The areas that will be reviewed over the next 6 months include:

•    Population statistics
•    The National Data Archive (NADA)
•    The Tanzanian Socio-Economic Database (TSED)
•    The NBS website
•    Hotel statistics and their contribution to quarterly GDP

In addition a dashboard of indicators will keep track of progress in key areas of the statistics system: monitoring timely release of statistics, progress of major projects such as the 2012 Census, delivery of donor funding commitments, and the milestones of the Tanzanian Statistical Master Plan.

The Independent Statistics Reviewer welcomes comments on the process and the outputs of Statistics Review Tanzania. You can get in touch and join the discussion on the website or by emailing: StatsReviewTanzania@gmail.com
 

]]> Thu, 27 Jan 2011 14:18:00 +0000 <![CDATA[Data visualizations]]> http://twaweza.org/index.php?i=753 http://twaweza.org/index.php?i=753
Local Government's in Tanzania ignore answering audit questions



Accountable governance of public resources means less audit queries that are not resolved. Many local government administration's in Tanzania clearly fail in this area. The 2009/10 report of the Controller and Auditor General shows that money implied in audit questions that are not addressed in LGAs have hit 122 billion shillings, its highest in five years. Only five Councils did well by addressing all audit questions from previous years in 2009/10 (Iringa Municipal Counci, Njombe Town Council, Kilolo District Council, Chato District Council and Songea Municipal Council). These are not shown here. Check out which councils ignored audit questions in 2009/10.







Making data accessible has never been easier. Google has launched a Public Data Explorer which makes it easy to explore large datasets. Within a matter of minutes one produces a chart like the one below that compares growth in per capita income for Kenya, Tanzania and Uganda with that of the World average. It also shows growth in per capita income for South Korea, a country that in the 1960s was a rich (poor) as any of the East African countries.






Other sites that allow provide attractive data visualizations include  the World Bank and World Mapper. If you are interested in mapping health related variables, consider visiting the DHS website.





]]> Wed, 09 Jun 2010 13:31:00 +0000 <![CDATA[Governance data]]> http://twaweza.org/index.php?i=751 http://twaweza.org/index.php?i=751
A plethora of agencies monitors governance these days.



International Governance data sets




Tanzania




Kenya




  • Parliament of the Republic of Kenya- This site provides access to parliamentary Hansard papers dating from as far back as 1913 to the present. The documents are uploaded 24 hours after every debate. The site also provides access to reports by various sector committees of parliament and a 'Bill Tracker' where readers can trace bills of interest in parliament. Finally, readers can find a list of all Members of Parliament with their profiles, from education, previous career information and contacts.


  • Government Gazette Notices


]]> Tue, 08 Jun 2010 13:26:00 +0000 <![CDATA[Education data]]> http://twaweza.org/index.php?i=752 http://twaweza.org/index.php?i=752
Education statistics are provided on a wide range of issues varying from enrollment to learning outcomes.



Global sources




Tanzania




Kenya



]]> Wed, 02 Jun 2010 13:29:00 +0000 <![CDATA[Budget data]]> http://twaweza.org/index.php?i=750 http://twaweza.org/index.php?i=750
Every year the Ministry of Finance produces the so called 'budget books'. Here links are provided to the data that populates the budget books of Uganda, Tanzania and Kenya. If you want to know more about budgets and budget analysis, you may want to visit the web site of the International Budget Partnership.



Tanzania




Kenya




Links to organizations dealing with budget and budget data



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