Summary: The purpose of this legal research paper is to initiate debate in the Tanzanian government and civil society about the constitutionality of arbitrary round-ups and detentions of street children.Since September 2001, Tanzania has witnessed...
Summary: This paper contributes to a current project by the Mkombozi Centre for Street Children and the Arusha Caucas for Children's Rights to improve services for children in conflict with the law, facilitate the introduction of international law...
Summary: This study, undertaken in Northwestern Tanzania, finds evidence that orphanhood matters in the long-run for health and education outcomes.Owner: Beegle, K.; De Weerdt, J.; Dercon, S.pdf: http://www.eldis.org/cf/rdr/rdr.cfm?doc=DOC20126
Summary: Eleven million children under the age of five die each year in low and middle income countries. The World Health Organisation and UNICEF have developed the Integrated Management of Childhood Illness (IMCI) strategy to address child health...
Summary: The Integrated Management of Childhood Illness (IMCI) strategy for improving child health has been adopted in many countries. What impact has it had so far in Tanzania? And is it more cost-effective than conventional approaches to child...
Summary: A contribution to the United Nations Study on
Violence Against Children, this report from
World Vision International's Africa Office is the
result of consultations with 120 children in
Tanzania in early 2005.
pdf: www.child-rights.org...
Summary: The Primary Education Development Plan
(PEDP) is perhaps is the most ambitious
attempt, after Universal Primary Education
(UPE) drive in 1977, to affect primary
education in Tanzania. PEDP goes beyond the
aims of UPE, which was primarily...
Summary: The Tanzanian government has recognized
the importance of investing in human capital in
order to fight disease, poverty and ignorance.
Since 1995, there have been a series of
reforms to address the problems that have
undermined...
Summary: This paper presents a summary of key issues
and/or objectives promoted by Mwalimu in the
first section, then a brief sketch of the
education situation today in the context of
liberalisation and privatisation in the education
system, and...
Summary: During the 1970s Tanzania made impressive
gains in expanding universal primary
education. In 1980 gross enrollment rates
reached 100%. The objective of everyone
enjoying free primary schooling was in clear
sight. Mwalimu Nyerere became...
