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The Independent Report on Tanzania’s OGP performance is out. So what does it...
Cartoon courtesy of HakiElimu Has Tanzania fulfilled its commitments in the first phase of the Open Government Partnership? My view, at the time of the OGP Summit in London last year, was that very...
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Views on Tanzania’s Constitutional Assembly / Bunge la Katiba – from the...
First up, from the Guardian: A big task ahead – from The Guardian Next, ITV asks about priorities – three governments or two, vs water, food, health, resources, education: Priorities … Third, The...
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The next generation – how the media reported Ridhiwani Kikwete’s nomination
Amid the extensive coverage of the difficult birth of Tanzania’s Constitutional Assembly this week, and some more excellent work by the cartoonists, I spotted a different story of interest. The...
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Chart of the Week #1: Tanzanians’ views on natural resource management
Source: World Bank blog, using data from Twaweza’s Sauti za Wananchi initiative, rounds 9 and 11. Highlights from Jacques Morriset’s post on the World Bank blog, based on data from Twaweza’s Sauti za...
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Chart(s) of the week #2: Freedom to speak in Tanzania
Two charts this week, and a video, all on freedom of speech issues in Tanzania. First up, a chart adapted from last year’s Afrobarometer round 5 data release, specifically the report on free speech and...
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On the shooting, or otherwise, of messengers. Plus some cartoons
“Don’t shoot the messenger!” we say in English. The Waswahili have it different: Mjumbe hauawi, the messenger is not killed. In English, it’s a plea, recognising that in anger we can so easily misplace...
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Talking ’bout a (data) revolution? Then let’s make it truly revolutionary
A version of this post was published on post2015.org, in their blog series, ‘What kind of ‘data revolution’ do we need for post-2015?’ - – - – - Don’t you know, they’re talking ’bout a revolution,...
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Chart of the Week #3: Open or closed voting, via RaiaMwema newspaper
RaiaMwema published an interesting bit of data journalism today, on it’s front page: Open or closed? – From RaiaMwema 26/3/14 It’s the chart on the left that’s most interesting – it shows that just...
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What do Tanzanians really think of the three governments idea?
From The Citizen 18/3/2014 Justice Warioba: ”Of the almost 38,000 citizens who gave their views on the Union, 19,000 expressed an opinion on the form of the Union. The breakdown of these statistics...
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Tanzania’s ongoing water sector mess
Twaweza has a new policy brief out*, on a subject that’s close to my heart: water supply in Tanzania. Money flows, water trickles is the title, and it’s hard to argue with that. A lot of money has been...
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Chart of the Week #4: Distribution of new teachers in Tanzania’s Primary Schools
HakiElimu published a statement last week on the allocation of new primary school teachers to different regions, including this chart: Pupil teacher ratios in Tanzanian primary schools, by region, 2013...
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Chart of the week #5: Poverty, inequality and learning outcomes in Tanzania
From my colleagues at Twaweza this week, a set of four charts showing how learning outcomes vary between poor and non-poor children: Inequality in learning outcomes. Source: Jones et al So what does it...
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Chart of the week #6: What do Tanzanians think of changes to the form four...
More data journalism from Raia Mwema newspaper this week, again on the front page and drawing as before on data from the Listening to Dar survey panel. This time, the topic is the changes to the...
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Chart(s) of the week #7: There’s more to the constitution than the union...
Some charts from Twaweza’s latest Sauti za Wananchi brief this week, asking Tanzanians about their views of the second draft new constitution – the one that’s supposed to be under discussion by the...
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Chart of the week #8: Democracy in Tanzania, according to Afrobarometer
More from the excellent Afrobarometer surveys this week, from the latest report on their 2012 surveys. The topic is democracy. First, what is the demand for democracy in different parts of Africa? This...
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When water doesn’t spout from money: the challenge of water provision in...
This blogpost was originally published on the Ideas for Africa blog, run by the International Growth Centre (IGC) of the London School of Economics and Oxford University. It is co-written with Ruth...
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Media freedom in Tanzania, in numbers
For World Press Freedom Day, (which is today), here are two charts drawing on global indexes of media freedom: First, US-based Freedom House released their Freedom of the Press 2014 report this week....
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Chart of the week #9: Killings due to witchcraft beliefs in Tanzania
How many people are killed each year in Tanzania due to witchcraft beliefs? Source: Tanzania Human Rights Reports, 2010-2013 This chart is based on data from police reports and compiled in the annual...
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Health check: How do Tanzania’s health services rate?
My colleagues on Twaweza’s Sauti za Wananchi mobile phone-based surveys are scaling up their output this year, in a big way. After the fascinating briefs they launched in last month on water supplies...
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Chart of the week #10: Uwezo test pass rates by country and subject
Uwezo released their latest report last week, looking at learning outcomes across Kenya, Tanzania and Uganda. They surveyed well over 300,000 children aged 6 to 16, across all but a handful of...
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