R4D Tanzania

REACT Newsletter, October 2012

Fri, 24 May 2013 11:14 GMT

Production Year: 2012

Citation: Africa Enterprise Challenge Fund (AECF). REACT Newsletter, October 2012. (2012) 5 pp.

Summary: This issue features AECF's exciting Renewable Energy and Adaptation to Climate Technology (REACT) portfolio. Articles on Tanzania, Mozambique, Rwanda and Kenya are included.

City-Wide Sanitation Project Situation Analyses

Fri, 24 May 2013 10:46 GMT

Production Year: 2013

Citation: Anon. City-Wide Sanitation Project Situation Analyses. (2013) 6 pp.

Summary: The City-Wide Sanitation Project is being implemented in four countries: Zambia, Zimbabwe, Malawi and Tanzania. The Project employs ‘action research’ to develop and test an approach to pro-poor city-wide sanitation strategies that can be adopted and driven by Federations, networks of community organizations and residents’ associations, and supported by public authorities and private providers. This report provides a summary of the situational analyses that have taken place in the four cities involved in the research: Chinhoyi (Zimbabwe), Kitwe (Zambia), Blantyre (Malawi) and Dar Es Salaam (Tanzania). A situational analysis is an overview of the current situation in the research areas based on multi stakeholder perspectives, geological assessment, existing livelihoods strategies, shelter and tenure arrangements, municipal and other agency finance, policy frameworks and institutional arrangements.

Evaluating the potential of microfinance for sanitation in Tanzania

Fri, 24 May 2013 10:34 GMT

Production Year: 2013

Citation: Trémolet, S.; Muruka, G. Evaluating the potential of microfinance for sanitation in Tanzania. (2013) 60 pp.

Summary: This case study investigates how household financing for sanitation can be mobilised via the use of microfinance in order to accelerate sustainable access to sanitation facilities and/or services. The research in Tanzania seeks to map out the existing provision of microfinance for sanitation, to identify where opportunities for future market development lie and to identify how the development of such a market could be fostered.

LDPI Working Paper 15. Contesting village land: uranium and sport hunting in Mbarang'andu Wildlife Management Area, Tanzania

Wed, 08 May 2013 14:15 GMT

Production Year: 2013

Citation: Noe, C. LDPI Working Paper 15. Contesting village land: uranium and sport hunting in Mbarang’andu Wildlife Management Area, Tanzania. The Land Deal Politics Initiative, (2013) 20 pp.

Summary: The continuing struggles for land in Africa and the recent and dynamic academic debates about conservation as land grabbing calls for the critical analysis of the complexity besieging land deals that disempower local resource owners in different social-economic and political settings. This paper considers Wildlife Management Areas (WMAs) in Tanzania as a new category of protected areas with potentially continuing effects on rural community land rights. Using an example of uranium mining and hunting concessions in the Mbarang’andu WMA in Namtumbo district, the paper demonstrates how WMAs have served to release village lands for different kinds of private sector investments in both nature-based and extractive industries. Conceptually, the paper draws from the body of literature on idle/waste land and the power relations to demonstrate how the existing legal framework and the relations of power work to the detriment of local land users. Qualitative techniques were the main thrust of data collection both in Dar es Salaam and during the fieldwork in Namtumbo district. The main argument of the paper is that the change of village land into conservation has entailed an irrevocable change of land and other resource tenure. Yet, the use of WMAs and the economic gains from investments in them are not determined by community members, but the relations of power at higher levels – the government ministries, investors (who are often foreign to the community) and local elites. In particular, the circumstances in Mbarang’andu suggest that the mining law lacks complete recognition of WMAs, which pre-empts any possibility for negotiations for community rights to mining investments or the associated social-economic impacts. Instead of empowering local communities, therefore, WMAs may continue to serve the interests of those with the necessary capital and political influence, which engenders new social regimes of power and inequality.

Heifer-in-trust, Social Protection and Graduation: Conceptual Issues and Empirical Questions

Wed, 08 May 2013 12:56 GMT

Production Year: 2013

Citation: Sumberg, J.; Lankoandé, G.D. Heifer-in-trust, Social Protection and Graduation: Conceptual Issues and Empirical Questions. Development Policy Review (2013) 31 (3) 255-271. [DOI: 10.1111/dpr.12006]

Summary: This article examines the ‘heifer-in-trust’ or ‘livestock-in-kind credit’ model through a social-protection lens. Specifically it seeks to engage with debates about the use of asset-based strategies to support graduation from social protection. Drawing on project experience with dairy goats in Ethiopia and dairy cattle in Tanzania, the article concludes that while the asset-ness of livestock may in principle allow them to make a unique contribution to livelihood transformation and thus graduation, the most obvious target group is least likely to be able to handle the demands and risks associated with livestock assets.

AFCAP Quarterly Report 13, January - March 2012

Wed, 08 May 2013 08:05 GMT

Production Year: 2012

Citation: Afcap Cmg. AFCAP Quarterly Report 13, January - March 2012. (2012) 52 pp.

Summary: This report details the activities undertaken by the African Community Access Programme (AFCAP) Core Management Group (CMG) during the period 1 January to 31 March 2012. This report provides updates regarding CMG performance against the programme logframe, as well as country and financial updates. Under AFCAP there are a range of projects which are reported upon in the body of the report.

AFCAP Quarterly Report 12, October - December 2011

Wed, 08 May 2013 07:58 GMT

Production Year: 2012

Citation: Afcap Cmg. AFCAP Quarterly Report 12, October - December 2011. (2012) 42 pp.

Summary: This report details the activities undertaken by the African Community Access Programme (AFCAP) Core Management Group (CMG) during the period 1 October to 31 December 2011. This report provides updates regarding CMG performance against the programme logframe, as well as country and financial updates. Under AFCAP there are a range of projects which are reported upon in the body of the report.

AFCAP Quarterly Report 10, April - June 2011

Thu, 02 May 2013 11:03 GMT

Production Year: 2011

Citation: Afcap Cmg. AFCAP Quarterly Report 10, April - June 2011. (2011) 84 pp.

Summary: This report details the activities undertaken by the African Community Access Programme (AFCAP) Core Management Group (CMG) during the period 1 April to 30 June 2011. The report provides updates regarding CMG performance against the programme logframe, as well as country and financial updates.

AFCAP Quarterly Report 9, January - March 2011

Thu, 02 May 2013 10:55 GMT

Production Year: 2011

Citation: Afcap Cmg. AFCAP Quarterly Report 9, January - March 2011. (2011) 67 pp.

Summary: This report details the activities undertaken by the African Community Access Programme (AFCAP) Core management Group (CMG) during the period 1 January to 31 March 2011. The report provides updates regarding CMG performance against the programme logframe, as well as country and financial updates.

Improved maintenance systems for District Roads in Tanzania: AFCAP/TAN/019. Final Report.

Thu, 02 May 2013 08:34 GMT

Production Year: 2013

Citation: Anon. Improved maintenance systems for District Roads in Tanzania: AFCAP/TAN/019. Final Report. (2013) 63 pp.

Summary: This report describes the Africa Community Access Programme (AFCAP) Study into Improved Maintenance Systems for District Roads in Tanzania. The Study was carried out in the period February 2010 to November 2012.

The report is organised in six chapters:

Chapter 2 describes the initial stages of the Study when the three pilot districts were identified, the detailed design of the Study was agreed and a baseline and institutional assessments carried out in the pilot districts.

Chapter 3 describes the implementation of the maintenance works including the identification of roads for maintenance, preparation of tender documents, procurement of contractors and implementation of the contracts.

Chapter 4 describes the main findings.

Chapter 5 gives the conclusions and recommendations of the Study.

Chapter 6 gives suggestions for further research in Tanzania and elsewhere in sub-Saharan Africa to build on the findings of the present Study. It also recommends some follow-up activities related to the Study.