Search

Women’s Economic Engagement and Childcare: Moving from Survival to a ‘Triple Boon’

Published by: IDS

Women’s childcare responsibilities are often seen as a barrier to them undertaking paid work. However, this is a two-way interaction, mediated by large quantities of unpaid work. Women thus find themselves in a downward spiral of a ‘triple burden’ consisting of (a) time‑consuming, yet unpaid work with no economic returns to them; (b) informal and back‑breaking low-paid work; and (c) supervisory childcare and domestic tasks like cooking, cleaning, and fetching water and fuel.

Developing Subnational Scorecards for Nutrition Accountability in Tanzania

Scorecards are an increasingly popular instrument aiming to advance accountability for nutrition. Often devised at national level, growing interest is now emerging in subnational application. This paper presents a protocol for how a subnational scorecard may be developed in a participatory manner, summarising our experience doing so in two districts of Tanzania: Morogoro and Kigoma.

A Gender Approach to the Promotion of Productive Uses of Electricity

Published by: IDS

Interventions promoting productive use of electricity (PUE) without gender approaches are more likely to benefit men than women. Men typically own more businesses and operate in a wider range of more productive, electricity‑intensive activities. Gender approaches improve the effectiveness of PUE projects, benefiting both men and women as productive electricity users and increasing electricity suppliers’ financial sustainability.

Street-Level Diplomacy and Local Enforcement for Meat Safety in Northern Tanzania: Kowledge, Pragmatism and Trust

Published by: BMC

With increasing demand for red meat in Tanzania comes heightened potential for zoonotic infections in animals and humans that...

Adaptive Programming in Fragile, Conflict and Violence-Affected Settings. What Works and Under What Conditions? The Case of Institutions for Inclusive Development, Tanzania

Published by: Itad

Adaptive Management involves a dynamic interaction between three elements: delivery, programming and governance. This case study focuses...

The Case for an Adaptive Approach to Empowerment and Accountability Programming in Fragile Settings

Published by: Itad

Fragile, conflict and violence-affected settings (FCVAS) are messy and ambiguous contexts in which to plan and implement development...

Democratisation in Tanzania: No Elections Without Exemptions

Published by: IDS

A demand-supply framework has been developed and applied to Tanzania to explore the link between democratisation, economic...

The Role of Information Technology to Enhance Property Tax Revenue in Kenya, Tanzania and Zambia

Published by: Institute of Development Studies

Public finance theory suggests that property tax is an ideal local tax. But it’s also a ‘data-hungry’ tax, making it difficult and...