Kiroba identity has remained stable in a transitional atmosphere owing to traditional linkages which were reinforced through oral history and generated social capital. Among the Kiroba people of Tanzania, the elders' chief role and objective is to pass on moral tribe values and reaffirm their social unity by relating the tribe's history to younger generations. The chief organizing factor is patrilineal kinship. Also, social organization occurs through political identification, religious affiliation etc. These serve to reinforce tradition and generate social capital.
This report introduces two micro-level tools, the Public Expenditure Tracking Survey (PETS) and the Quantitative Service Delivery Survey (QSDS), which can be used to assess the quantity and quality of frontline service delivery from public, private not-for-profit, and private for-profit providers.
Descriptions given in "summary findings" on page two examine the link between strong civic involvement and democratic stability, and the role that social capital plays in collective action is explored. A typology of civic society and state relations is developed. This typology makes apparent the ways in which civil society is impacted by political regimes as well as highlighting was in which civil society can be engrossed and supported under different situations. Civic organization builds on itself in that communities that organize cooperatively to achieve certain goals find it easier to organize for other purposes as well.
This paper analyzes the implications community participation has on education and examines World Bank practices related to community participation in education.
This study assesses the lessons learned on key parameters of the PRS process in Tanzania and recommends corrective action, aimed both at the global framework guiding the PRS and the actual process in Tanzania, designed to improve the prospects of achieving the goals of the PRS initiative in the future. It also assesses the responsiveness, quality and timeliness of support provided to the PRS process in Tanzania by the World Bank and IMF as against the declared intentions of the two institutions, and the degree to which other aid organisations have engaged in the PRS process.
A new discipline is emerging called evolutionary economics. Common ground between evolutionary biology and neoclassical economics is being explored with emphasis on models of human behavior. An overview of the emerging discipline of evolutionary economics is presented. The outcomes of Robert Axelrod's Prisoner's Dilemma computer tournament are considered in light of the evolution-based model of economic behavior. A study of hunters of the Hazda people in Tanzania is offered as a case study.
This paper synthesises the key findings from case studies in five countries (Ghana, Malawi, Mozambique, Tanzania and Uganda), each of which examined how public expenditure management has been linked to poverty reduction policy goals.
This ten-country study from Africa looks at how the small-scale provider sector responds to market niches and meets the needs of both the poor and other unserviced communities.
