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Trade, Technology, and Absorptive Capacity in the Tanzanian Textiles and Apparel Sector
This research is part of the project 'Sustainable development solutions for Tanzania' - strengthening research to achieve SDGs, a...
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This research is part of the project 'Sustainable development solutions for Tanzania' - strengthening research to achieve SDGs, a...
9 October 2019
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.
9 August 2019
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.
6 August 2019
Published by: BMC
With increasing demand for red meat in Tanzania comes heightened potential for zoonotic infections in animals and humans that...
10 July 2019
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.
2 July 2019
Published by: Itad
Adaptive Management involves a dynamic interaction between three elements: delivery, programming and governance. This case study focuses...
25 June 2019
Published by: Itad
Fragile, conflict and violence-affected settings (FCVAS) are messy and ambiguous contexts in which to plan and implement development...
18 June 2019
Published by: IDS
A demand-supply framework has been developed and applied to Tanzania to explore the link between democratisation, economic...
6 June 2019
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...