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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...
View ArticleTalking ’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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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 #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(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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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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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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Chart of the week #18: What do Tanzanians think about corruption?
Three charts from Twaweza’s latest Sauti za Wananchi brief, on corruption. First, how do Tanzanian citizens see corruption now compared to ten years ago? And second, how familiar are Tanzanians with...
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Chart of the week #28: If elections were held today, who would you vote for?
The latest Sauti za Wananchi survey brief was launched earlier today, on politics. It covers a range of topics, and I highly recommend reading the whole brief. But Angela Ambroz has put together this...
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Public Debate on Statistics and Cybercrime Acts, University of Dar es Salaam,...
A public debate on Tanzania’s Statistics and Cybercrime Acts will be held at the University of Dar es Salaam on Saturday April 18th. It will take place in Nkrumah Hall, starting from 2pm, in Swahili....
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Highlights of President Kikwete’s speech at the #OGPAfrica Meeting
President Kikwete speaking at OGP Africa meeting, 20/5/15 “Openness enables people to claim their rights, and reminds government leaders to deliver on their responsibilities” “Civil society also needs...
View ArticleHighlights of Remarks of Twaweza Executive Director, Aidan Eyakuze, at...
“The OGP is not a perfect movement or process, and it is not without its critics. For some it is a smokescreen that provides good PR for governments who have no real intention to reform. Such criticism...
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Collected reactions to Twaweza / Sauti za Wananchi opinion poll findings
Two weeks ago, my colleagues and I at Twaweza launched our latest political opinion poll for Tanzania – including the perhaps surprising headline finding that at the start of the campaign period, CCM...
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Yesterday was Access to Information Day 2017. Meanwhile, in Tanzania …
Mwananchi, 29/9/17 As we marked Access to Information Day, 2017 … … the communications regulator – TCRA – held a consultation on proposed new online content regulations. Among other things, the...
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Learning from the Tbilisi OGP Summit: Hope and ideas in an age of closing...
Photo by @Nnenna In the opening plenary session of the latest Open Government Partnership summit, one panellist offered his definition of open government: government of the people, by the people and...
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