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How transparency and accountability can make development work
29 Mar 2012
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'How transparency and accountability can make development work' was a presentation made to the Board of the Hewlett Foundation, one of our donors. The presenation talks of how transparency and accountability can energize development by creating opportunities for people to know, connect and act and by providing incentives for those in charge to be more responsive and deliver. Transparency and accountability enables citizens to reclaim government and make services work for them.
Citizens making stuff happen
29 Mar 2012
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Things may be moving slowly in the world of officialdom. But people are not always waiting for their governments to do everything in their daily lives. According to Rakesh Rajani, Twaweza's Head, despite bureaucratic service delivery systems citizens find ways to get things done.
- Citizens making stuff happen | 1.72 MB
From 'things happen to me' to 'I make things happen': Twaweza's approach
29 Mar 2012
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Speaking to the Governance DP Group in April 2010, Twaweza Head Rakesh Rajani said that development doesn't work when it a) places faith and funds in unaccountable governments, b) runs short-lived boutique projects that reach very few, or c) gets good people to participate in dysfunctional policy processes.
Twaweza therefore realized it would have greater success by working with the networks that already exist in each village and urban neighbourhood. These are what we call the five networks: religion, mass media, mobile telephony, consumer goods networks, and teachers' unions.
Twaweza therefore realized it would have greater success by working with the networks that already exist in each village and urban neighbourhood. These are what we call the five networks: religion, mass media, mobile telephony, consumer goods networks, and teachers' unions.
Development is miserable, but people are making things happen
29 Mar 2012
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Twaweza Head Rakesh Rajani was invited to speak at the 2010 TEDx event in Dar es Salaam. His talk was entitled, 'Development is miserable, but people are making things happen.' After presenting observations from Tanzania on water, health and eduation he asked:
'What can we conclude? We have hollow shells, hardware over software, dysfunctional governance, veneers & pretences of progress, high costs and serious inequitie., Little care, little health, little learning. Little faith in �officialdom.�
And yet, people are driving change with a little imagination.
'What can we conclude? We have hollow shells, hardware over software, dysfunctional governance, veneers & pretences of progress, high costs and serious inequitie., Little care, little health, little learning. Little faith in �officialdom.�
And yet, people are driving change with a little imagination.
- Development is miserable | 1.66 MB
Is Policy Practiced? Stories from 9 Villages
28 Mar 2012
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On our 2009 Immersion in Tanzania's Lake District, Twaweza staff had these questions in mind: Do public funds reach people? Do services work for the poor? Does governance solve problems? How do people su(th)rvive? View the presentation 'Is Policy Practiced?' for stories of Twaweza's first Immersion experience that continues to challenge and inform our thinking.
Twaweza: Fostering an ecosystem of change through citizen agency and public accountability
28 Mar 2012
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'Fostering an ecosystem of change through citizen agency and public accountability' is the Twaweza Strategy in a nutshell. The presentation speaks of our goals and ambitions for the organization. At the centre of our work is the idea that it is citizens themselves who drive change.
- Twaweza: Fostering an ecosystem of change through citizen agency and public accountability | 186.97 KB
Getting education right in Tanzania
28 Mar 2012
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This presentation, entitled 'More fumbling at the margins or a strategic break?' was given to the Tanzania Education Donor Group in late 2008. Twaweza Head Rakesh Rajani examined the official story vs. the lived reality of the state of education in the country.
- Getting Education Right in Tanzania | 80.47 KB
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