A blog by Duncan Green, strategic adviser for Oxfam GB, on the CPAN Event ‘Shouting at the system won’t make it work!’ and his thoughts on the use of indexes to hold local officials to account.
Read MoreCPAN in Tanzania for the Local Governance Performance Index Project
In order to encourage local institutions to prioritize the needs of the poorest, CPAN Research Fellow, Anna Mdee, is in Tanzania to work on the Governance Performance Index Project from the 16th to the 20th of May. During this week ...
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Read MoreSDGs series #2: Implementing SGDs in Tanzania: Prospects and Challenges
SGDs agenda is ambitious, with the aim of eliminating rather than reducing poverty – the “leave no one behind” notion. Goal 1 target 1.1 aims at reducing extreme poverty to all people everywhere by 2030. Poverty especially in rural Tanzania has been declining at a very low pace from 40.8% in 1991/92 to 33.3% in 2011/12 (7.5 percentage points decrease for 20 years). Inequalities are also huge. Thus, Tanzania has to make sequential prioritization and serious resource mobilization from domestic and international sources for its implementation.
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