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'The Church in Burundi is working intensely, along with national and local authorities and international organizations, to meet the needs of the Burundi refugees returning from Tanzania,' Agenzia Fides was told by Fr.

TANZANIA'S high court has sentenced four men to death by hanging for killing a 50-year-old albino man, local media reported.

An isolated remnant of an ice spire in the crater of Mount Kilimanjaro in Tanzania.

An Albino limb can fetch thousands of dollars on the black market. Inside the lives of people suffering from albinism - and community efforts to protect them.

Zanzibar President Amani Abeid Karume's meeting with his erstwhile foe, Civic United Front (CUF) Secretary-General Seif Shariff Hamad, on Thursday, is probably the best news to have come out of the Isles in the recent past. (AllAfrica)

This document serves as a manual for educators delivering Non-Formal Education (NFE) in Tanzania. It is produced by Mkombozi, a child-focussed agency based in the north of the country. The authors argue that the Mkombozi NFE principles and practice would be applicable in a schools based context and would be of value to the Tanzanian education system. Both the Mkombozi NFE and the Tanzanian education system work towards building learners who are collaborators and communicators. The Mkombozi student profile (with key (eldis.org)

This study is the result of the interest that was generated from the success of Tanzanias National Strategy for Growth and Reduction of Poverty (MKUKUTA), which saw environmental issues being interwoven with development initiatives. The research looks at stories of real change in three main areas: environmental awareness, which has been brought to the forefront of decision makers minds following the MKUKUTA environmental mainstreaming programme planning and strategy, which was once a (eldis.org)

This paper, published in Health Policy and Planning, reports on the findings of a study that examines the factors influencing low enrolment in Tanzanias health prepayment schemes (community health fund). Prepayment schemes are hailed internationally as part of a broader solution to health care financing problems in low income countries. However, evidence suggests that schemes often exclude the poor and those most in need of health care. The paper finds that district managers have a direct influence over the factors explaining (eldis.org)

As a positive woman, how do you try to stay healthy? What barriers do you face in trying to access medication? In 2006, ICW mapped positive women's experiences of access to care, treatment and support in three countries - Tanzania, Kenya and Namibia. Treatment is meant to be free in all three countries, yet focus group discussions with HIV positive women and health care workers revealed a number of factors that negate women's ability to access and use antiretrovirals (ARVs) to improve their health. (eldis.org)

The purpose of this guide is to explore how advocates and civil society leaders can use the legal system to improve the lives of people in Tanzania, whilst advancing the goals of an advocacy campaign. Primarily targeted at non-governmental organisations (NGOs) it can also be used by a wide range of organisations representing civil society, who interact with government at all levels. The guide explains the formation of laws and public policies in Tanzania. In addition, it also: outlines the source and (eldis.org)

This briefing paper summarises the impacts of Tanzania's Local Government Reform Programme (LGRP) on local governance, finances and service delivery. Key findings discussed include: a substantial development in the processes of decision making, especially through attempts to include citizens in the planning process. Urban councils are generally better resourced and seem to be able to implement more plans from below than their rural counterparts there are no effective instruments and procedures in place for (eldis.org)

To understand poverty in Africa it is crucial to understand the performance of the small scale sector, from which the vast majority of the poor earn their living. Whilst the poor are largely concentrated in the rural areas, evidence shows that the link between small scale activities and poverty constitutes a common factor spanning both peasant farming and the urban informal sector. Drawing on labour market data from Ghana, Tanzania and Ethiopia, this paper addresses some aspects of the determinants of earnings (eldis.org)

The paper analyses the distributional impact of trade liberalisation on the cotton and textile sectors in Tanzania. Specifically, the study investigates the effects of increased exposure to international trade on workers who are at the bottom of a production process. The case study looks at the impact of international trade as a combined outcome of three forces: the structural effects such as trade barriers, infrastructure, and institutional factors the labour demand effects the labour (eldis.org)

The document reports on a fisheries access agreements workshop that was conducted in June 2005 in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania. This workshop was the fourth in a series designed to promote sustainable access agreements and regional collaboration. The report gives a background on the African Marine EcoRegion and the rights of coastal States as well as highlighting national and international perspectives and experiences with fisheries access agreements. The countries affected by fisheries access agreements in (eldis.org)

This document aims to facilitate the establishment of a public/private partnership (PPP) in the fertiliser supply chain for Tanzania. Commissioned by Norad, the report assesses the strengths and weaknesses of the value chain, examines the input and output markets for agricultural commodities, and develops a proposal for planning a PPP at local level. The report also reflects on Norads own policies with regard to supporting these activities. Considering value chain opportunities and weaknesses in the financial sector, (eldis.org)

Across much of Sub-Saharan Africa, secondary education has been the weak link in students progression from primary education to either higher education or employment. To achieve higher standards of secondary education, new and more effective approaches to recruiting, retaining and retraining teachers and principles are necessary. This report examines critical issues in these three domains through an extensive literature review and an analysis of field studies from Ethiopia, Ghana, Guinea, Madagascar, (eldis.org)

There has been much dispute in the literature as to whether the returns to vocational or academic training are higher. The authors of this paper ask how the returns to academic education compare with the return to two types of training drawing on labour force data from Tanzania's manufacturing sector. The first is vocational training or attending a technical college as part of schooling, the second is on-the-job training in a firm. The authors find that if the firm fixed effect captures a substantial element of (eldis.org)

This report, from the Touch Foundation, explores the human resources for health (HRH) challenge in developing countries. It uses Tanzania as a case study, as well as exploring the HRH situation elsewhere. The report finds that the health care crisis in Tanzania is acute and that there is a significant HRH shortage compared to neighbouring countries. The authors argue that higher skilled cadres of health workers should be the central priority for investment in the country. Ensuring that (eldis.org)

Cotton is a rare economic success story in Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA), generating cash incomes for millions of smallholder households and allowing the continent to capture a rising share of world trade in the crop. There are, however, concerns that declining prices and costs of inputs could threaten these positive outcomes. With cotton sector reform in much of SSA a decade old, it is now possible to begin learning from experience. This paper assesses the record of five countries in southern and eastern Africa: Tanzania, (eldis.org)

This report highlights the results of a project to establish youth-friendly sexual and reproductive health services in Tanzania. The project aimed to do this through developing, expanding and institutionalising youth-friendly services in a variety of settings. The approach to developing a youth-friendly service focused on the following: building on existing resources, using available facilities and service providers reaching young people through a variety (eldis.org)

This report looks at the management of social and economic benefit streams in two mining communities in northern Tanzania; Geita and Mererani. Case studies within the report show that at the local level, poor local governance has opened up for corruption in benefit streams management. Moreover, in Mererani, development projects sponsored by a large scale mining company have resulted in ethnic secessionism and affected local political processes. The authors argue that there are no signs that this ethnic rivalry will (eldis.org)

This paper makes a case for increased policy attention to pastoralists in Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA). The paper presents: estimates of the numbers of agro- /pastoral populations globally their livestock and their contribution to national economies the incidence of poverty among agro-/pastoral populations.

The author examines the causes and dynamics of poverty among pastoral populations in Africa drawing on the sustainable livelihoods framework and focusing on vulnerability to shocks. (eldis.org)

Effective access to functioning and well-equipped social services is a prerequisite to improving the quality of life and for promoting the well being of all. The Afrobarometer has now tracked Tanzanians' perceptions of the quality of social service delivery, specifically with respect to education, water supply and health. The data was collected during three rounds of nation-wide surveys. People's access to these services, their evaluation of the government's performance in providing them, and the problems they (eldis.org)

This paper, published in the Bulletin of the World Health Organization (WHO), reports on the costs of integrated management of childhood illness (IMCI) compared to routine care in Tanzania. It explains that 70 per cent of deaths of young children are caused by five conditions: diarrhoea, pneumonia, malaria, measles and malnutrition. IMCI is strategy designed to reduce these deaths by improving the skills of health workers, improving health systems, and improving family and community practices. The (eldis.org)

Disabled people's organisations (DPOs) and people with disabilities rarely participate in any PRSP process, despite the professed importance of civil society involvement in the formulation, implementation and evaluation of a country's national poverty reduction strategy. This handbook presents experiences, proposes ideas, and comments on how DPOs and people with disabilities may enter and participate in national PRSP processes. The handbook seeks to be as concise as possible and as comprehensive as is necessary. It (eldis.org)

DAR ES SALAAM Tuesday, October 27, 2009 (IRIN) - HIV-positive Tanzanians are not taking advantage of the availability of life-prolonging anti-retroviral medication in hospitals around the country, says a senior government official. (irinnews.org)

KAMPALA Monday, October 26, 2009 (IRIN) - Seventeen countries signed the African Union convention on internally displaced persons (IDPs) after years of preparation culminated in a week of meetings in the Ugandan capital but a lot more hard work remains before it becomes effective, according to observers. (irinnews.org)

KAMPALA Friday, October 23, 2009 (IRIN) - With increasing natural disasters, including floods, storms and droughts, hitting the continent, more people in Africa are likely to be displaced, creating a challenge for governments, the UN warns. (irinnews.org)

NAIROBI Monday, September 28, 2009 (IRIN) - When pregnant women in Tanzania choose whether to give birth at home or in a clinic, the attitude of health workers and availability of drugs are more important factors than cost and distance to the clinic, a new study suggests. (irinnews.org)

NAIROBI Thursday, September 24, 2009 (IRIN) - Donor-backed user fees for health services were supposed to decentralise primary healthcare and provide revenue for essential drugs: instead, advocacy groups charge, they have ended up killing the poor in the developing world. (irinnews.org)

JOHANNESBURG Wednesday, September 23, 2009 (IRIN) - Climate related natural disasters like droughts, hurricanes and floods forced 20 million people - slightly less than the population of Australia - out of their homes in 2008 alone said a new study, making a strong case for regularly monitoring displacement in the context of climate change. (irinnews.org)