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Speeding up

Posted by: Ian Attfield, Education Adviser, Posted on: 10 April 2014 - Categories: Education, Tanzania, Technology
Ian sits in class with children. Picture: Ian Attfield/DFID

Designing a large performance or results based education financing programme in Tanzania has certainly been a challenge over the past months. In particular getting the indicators right: how they can realistically be linked to achievable targets that both stretch and …

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White teeth

Posted by: Ian Attfield, Education Adviser, Posted on: 25 February 2014 - Categories: Health, Tanzania

Nelson Mandela's legacy in Tanzania is rapidly expanding, as I learnt just days after returning from Washington DC last December, where the White House flag was at half mast as a mark of respect. Nearly a decade after Mandela met …

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Spiders and Starfish

Posted by: Ian Attfield, Education Adviser, Posted on: 31 January 2014 - Categories: Education, Tanzania

Tanzania’s Big Results Now! service delivery performance improvement initiative moves into its first full year of operation in 2014, with considerable interest in the national examination results that benchmark targets signed up to with personal commitment from Education Minister Shukuru …

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The Washington Consensus

Posted by: Ian Attfield, Education Adviser, Posted on: 11 December 2013 - Categories: Education, Tanzania

I'm at home today (December 9th), as Tanzania celebrates Uhuru Day, the anniversary of Tanganyika's independence in 1961 from the UK. This year however the event has been tinged with sadness as the news of Nelson Mandela's death reverberated around …

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An Open Book

Posted by: Ian Attfield, Education Adviser, Posted on: 20 November 2013 - Categories: Education, Tanzania

The Tanzanian government launched a new website last week to establish a monitoring system to 'crowd source' oversight of a huge logistical exercise that is now underway. DFID Tanzania has been assigned the task of supporting the Tanzanian government to …

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Mafia style education

Posted by: Ian Attfield, Education Adviser, Posted on: 31 October 2013 - Categories: Education, Tanzania

A little education can go a long way and provide young people with the competitive edge over their neighbours. This message really sunk home to me on a visit to Mafia: a beautiful, unspoilt Indian Ocean island off the coast …

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The Great Gatsby - Tanzania's self-made women

Posted by: Kirstie Allsopp, Television Presenter, Posted on: 12 October 2013 - Categories: Development Debates, Economic Development, Girls & Women, Tanzania

When I was first told I'd be meeting a Tanzanian poultry farmer during my visit to see Red Nose Day and UK government cash at work, a good few images came to mind. An expanse of rural land filled with …

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An average school

Posted by: Ian Attfield, Education Adviser, Posted on: 27 August 2013 - Categories: Education, Tanzania

"You should get out more!” my team leader has been nagging me for months, sitting in our office block in Dar es Salaam. Getting to see, and hopefully understanding more, about the real situation in rural Tanzania is essential. A …

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The Never Ending Road

Posted by: Ian Attfield, Education Adviser, Posted on: 1 August 2013 - Categories: Education, Tanzania

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 …

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Transparency and parliamentary scrutiny

Posted by: Ian Attfield, Education Adviser, Posted on: 19 June 2013 - Categories: Education, Tanzania

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 …

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