ABSTRACT Tanzania as a member of Common Wealth and signatory of different campaign for people with disabilities and their rights to employment, embarked on various initiatives aiming at realizing the envisaged goals that are contained in the United Nations declaration on the rights of people with disabilities (1975) where employment to people with disabilities was one of the main agenda. Providing strategies and all efforts for realising employment to people with disabilities, yet their worki...
ABSTRACT Despite mobile banking business being a fast growing ICT-based innovation in line with the face to face traditional banking industry little is known on the performance of mobile banking business among many countries including Tanzania. A study was conducted among four mobile network operators (MNOs), namely, Vodacom MPesa, Tigo Pesa, Airtel Money and Zantel ZAP, and five banks (NMB PLC, CRDB PLC, Exim Bank, TPB and BOA), to assess the mobile banking business performance in Dar es Sa...
ABSTRACT The main objective of this study was to examine the role of school management in improving academic performance in secondary Education Examination specifically in Lindi District. It was guided by three specific objectives which are: to assess school management skills that influencing performance of students in secondary school, to examine the role of school management in enhancing students performance in secondary school and to identify challenges that school management encountered ...
ABSTRACT The main objective of this study was to examine the role of school management in improving academic performance in secondary Education Examination specifically in Lindi District. It was guided by three specific objectives which are: to assess school management skills that influencing performance of students in secondary school, to examine the role of school management in enhancing students performance in secondary school and to identify challenges that school management encountered ...
ABSTRACT Tanzania’s private sector is one of the most developed and dynamic in Sub-Saharan Africa. In the health sector where the leading causes of death are HIV/AIDS, acute respiratory infection (ARI), diarrheal diseases, and malaria (World Health Organization [WHO] 2004) the private commercial (for profit) sector and the not for-profit sector play critical roles in preventing and treating disease. Even among the poor, the private sector is an important source of care. For example, 47 per...
ABSTRACT This study examines the effort of government in empowerment of people with disability in Singida District. The study is specifically guided by three objectives, these are: 1. To identify challenges faced by people with disability in Singida District, 2. To assess the impact of Tanzania government efforts towards people with disability in Singida District and 3. To analyze measures taken by government towards empowerment of people with disability in Singida District. A sample of 114 ...
ABSTRACT The main objective of the study was to assess the factors that determine the effectiveness of internal audit in managing public funds. The study was conducted in Dodoma Municipal Council (DMC) using a case study approach. The study attempted to combine all perspectives for evaluation of internal audit effectiveness in the Municipal Councils. The study involved 25 respondents from three occupations that were selected purposively. The occupations were internal auditors, external audito...
ABSTRACT The study aimed at evaluating the applicability of e-leadership on project management performance in public institutions Dodoma region, Tanzania. The study identified the current ICT systems in use for project management performance in an organization, determined application of ICT in project management performance in the public organization projects by project managers and assessed the impact of e-leadership on project management performances. Open and close-ended questionnaires, se...
ABSTRACT This study aimed at examining indigenous knowledge on climate change adaptation on maize and bean production in Mbeya rural. Basically the study aimed at examining the changes in rainfall and temperature and its impact on maize and bean production in the area as well as addressing the indigenous knowledge used by local people to resist the impacts caused by climate change. Primary data were collected by using questionnaires, interviews with key informants and field observation. SPSS ...
ABSTRACT This study assessed how rural women living with HIV/AIDS access microcredit for livelihood improvements. The study examined whether rural women living with HIV/AIDS have accesses to microcredit and the mode used by credit providers to provide microcredit. Also focused on the challenges faced by women living with HIV/AIDS when accessing microcredit and the socio-economic benefits of microcredit. The study was approached using multiple embedded case study design, where six women livin...
ABSTRACT This study was conducted in order to assess the local communities` livelihood expectations from uranium mining in 2016 at Namtumbo District, Tanzania specifically in Likuyu ward in which three villages were involved namely Likuyuseka, Mtonya and Mandela. Data for this study were obtained through documentary review, survey, semi structured interviews and Focused Group Discussion methods in which a representative sample of 96 heads of households was used. Descriptive and inferential st...
ABSTRACT The study aimed at finding out the extent of community participation in rural development projects, different mechanisms and strategies used to ensure community participation and the role of the Government and NGOs in ensuring effective community participation in the rural development projects. Applied was survey participatory observation and documentary review research in the methods. Data were collected by using open ended questionnaires interviews and documentary sources. A total ...
ABSTRACT The payment of tax by citizens and other members of community are termed as the main source of generating revenue for financing government expenditure. This study addressed three main objectives; the tax compliance level in Tanzania, the effect of perceived usefulness of tax design on tax compliance and factors that influencing usability of tax system. Data for the study was obtained by using structured questionnaire from 94 respondents in Dodoma, Tanzania. Descriptive survey resear...
ABSTRACT This study intended to examine the influence of organizational goal setting on employee work-life balance. Specifically, it attempted: to determine the influence of planning on employee work-life balance, to determine influence of monitoring on employee work-life balance and to examine influence of appraisal on employee work-life balance. The population of study comprised of employees of National Social Security Fund and Public Service Social Security Fund, where, the sample size was...
Abstract Public water services are still failing rural Tanzanians. Emboldened by advances in information communication technologies, the Ministry of Water has been developing computing, financial and administrative technologies to update and visualise the status of rural water points. This amalgam of technologies marks the emergence of an information infrastructure for rural water governance. The information infrastructure will enable the ministry to “see” the functionality status of all...