The Never Ending Road
Returning from a couple of wet and windy June weeks on holiday in the UK was actually quite a relief from the heat of Dar Es Salaam, but now Tanzania in mid winter is unusually a degree or two colder …
Tanzania
Tanzania has seen good economic growth in the last 10 years, as well as strong progress in health, education and other basic services. However there has been little reduction in income poverty and the challenge remains to reach everyone in need. Our team in Tanzania is working to scale up wealth creation programmes, deliver the Millennium Development goals, and getting the government to work better so it’s accountable.
Transparency and parliamentary scrutiny
Almost a year has sped past since I attended the 2012 Education Budget debate in Tanzania's Parliament, the Bunge in Dodoma last year, in my first week's work. I was unable to make it this year, but it seems that the debate …
Feeding potential
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Frank Kapeta, Youth Ambassador - Save the Children, Posted on:
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Development Debates, Nutrition, Tanzania
My name is Frank, I’m 17 years and live in Tanzania. When I was growing up I often had just 1 meal a day. Between the ages of 2 and 4, my family frequently faced hunger and malnutrition. Some days I felt …
Baseline the Bard
Tanzania's founding father Mwalimu (Swahili teacher) Julius Nyerere was certainly both erudite and multi-lingual; as he guided his country to independence in the 1960s he translated Shakespeare's Merchant of Venice and Julius Caesar into Swahili in his spare time. He …
Burning the midnight MOOC
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Ian Attfield, Education Adviser, Posted on:
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Education, Tanzania, Technology
With a day job dedicated to preaching the virtues of education - and how it should improve, I recently felt obliged to get my hands 'dirty' once more and enrolled on a Massive Open Online Course (MOOC) to see what …
Big, fast, accountable results now, Mr President!
Tanzanian President Dr. Jakaya Kikwete looked bemused as we greeted him with a classroom-like chorus; “Welcome to the education lab, Mr President!” The education 'laboratory' was one of six that government leaders visited in a conference facility on the outskirts …
Tanzania’s pass/fail roller coaster
You know that heart stopping feeling when you crest the first peak of a big roller coaster as it goes into free fall? That feeling of dread is perhaps only equalled by the torture of opening up your exam results …
Homeless schooling
Each day en route to work I pass a perplexing sight - a large single parent family living and learning under a giant fig tree. The hustle and bustle of crowded Dar es Salaam contains a large green space by the …
Education on the edge
I attended the local launch of the UNESCO Education for All (EFA) Global Monitoring Report (GMR) 2012 on a sultry Friday morning at Tanzania's National Museum. This year the thematic focus was on 'Youth and Skills: Putting Education to Work'. …
How can we use technology to improve education in Tanzania?
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Ian Attfield, Education Adviser, Posted on:
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Categories:
Education, Tanzania, Technology
Whilst I was still a young child, Tanzania's founding father and President Julius Nyerere, highlighted the benefits of mass education on accountability to the people: "An educated Ujamaa Village, for example, will neither allow nor tolerate dishonesty among its accountants or …
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