Participation for Development: Does the Decentralisation Policy in Tanzania Make a Difference?

Mollel, Henry; Tollenaar, Albertjan

doi:10.2139/ssrn.1865755

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“…After independence, Tanzania adopted decentralisation to improve social services which were mainly concentrated in urban areas following the colonial structures . In 1962, the government abolished Local Government Ordinance of 1953 and established the democratically elected district councils . However, local governments were treated as agents of the central government rather than governance organs which represent the needs of the local people .…”

Section: Decentralisation Initiatives In Tanzaniamentioning

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“…The 1972 Decentralisation Policy transferred planning, coordination, and management of rural development functions from the ministries to the regions and district councils . However, weak institutional capacities undermined the objective of the 1972 deconcentration which was to increase people's participation in decision‐making and enhance the performance in delivering public services . Instead, the deconcentration system led to the deterioration of the economy and public services, including health within the country .…”

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“…24 However, weak institutional capacities undermined the objective of the 1972 deconcentration which was to increase people's participation in decision-making and enhance the performance in delivering public services. 23,24 Instead, the deconcentration system led to the deterioration of the economy and public services, including health within the country. 22,24 Consequently, in 1982, the Tanzania re-established local government authorities and were backed by local governments' legal framework.…”

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Decentralisation and health services delivery in Tanzania: Analysis of decision space in planning, allocation, and use of financial resources

Kigume

Maluka

Kamuzora

2018

Health Planning & Management

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While decentralisation of health systems has been on the policy agenda in low-income and middle-income countries since the 1970s, many studies have focused on understanding who has more decision-making powers but less attention is paid to understand what those powers encompass. Using the decision space approach, this study aimed to understand the amount of decision-making space transferred from the central government to institutions at the periphery in the decentralised health system in Tanzania. The findings of this study indicated that the decentralisation process in Tanzania has provided authorities with a range of decision-making space. In the areas of priority setting and planning, district health authorities had moderate decision space. However, in the financial resource allocation and expenditure of funds from the central government, the districts had narrow decision-making space. The districts, nevertheless, had wider decision-making space in mobilising and using locally generated financial resources. However, the ability of the districts to allocate and use locally generated resources was constrained by bureaucratic procedures of the central government. The study concludes that decentralisation by devolution which is being promoted in the policy documents in Tanzania is yet to be realised at the district and local levels. The study recommends that the central government should provide more space to the decentralised district health systems to incorporate locally defined priorities in the district health plans.

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Decentralisation and health services delivery in Tanzania: Analysis of decision space in planning, allocation, and use of financial resources

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Maluka

Kamuzora

2018

Health Planning & Management

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“…As a result citizens to a certain extent have lost confidence to the current planning strategy. Mollel (2010) and Massoi & Norman (2009) in one way or another indicate that, where platforms for citizens to air out their voices are organized, a fraction of citizens do attend or participate. This implies that decisions are made by a few.…”

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In Search of a Link between Planning and Service Delivery: How can we Explicate Service Delivery Gap Using Primary Education and Agricultural Extension Services in Tanzania?

Lameck¹,

Kamugisha²

2015

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Planning is a life blood of development. It creates a path through which initiatives can be translated into practice. This is possible if planning is made to be as integrative as possible to guarantee systematic coverage of all crucial aspects for attainment of articulated goals. It delineates key issues over which the tenets of different courses of action should be anchored. All the way through, Tanzania has been striving to adopt and execute an integrative planning process to attain its desired development. From 1960s through 1970s to early 1980s, Tanzania was found to be busy experimenting conventional planning process in all development circles. Nevertheless, conventional planning has been accused of being supply driven rather than demand driven. In reaction to this, from the early 21 st century, Tanzania, like other developing countries, officially adopted a bottom up planning approach. Despite that deliberate intervention, the current practice still embraces top down model. This is so because the center still retains decision making powers and its priorities prevail over grassroots priorities. The objective of this article is to explain this failure of planning process which results to service delivery gap. In doing this, we compared the delivery of primary education in Moshi Municipal Council and that of agricultural extension services in Hai District Council.

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“…In this context, international collaboration has been playing a positive role for quite some time in enhancing this type of research capacity building (see for instance Zeelen and Van der Linden, 2009). A fruitful collaboration in the last decade has been that of the University of Groningen (where I currently work), the University of Limpopo, Eduardo Mondlane University in Maputo, Uganda Martyrs University, and Mzumbe University in Tanzania, resulting in new teaching and research efforts in (adult) education, public administration, and community oriented research (see among others: Rampedi, 2003;Sitoe, 2006;Angucia, 2010;Mollel, 2010;Zeelen et al, 2010).…”

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Universities in Africa: Working on Excellence for Whom? Reflections on Teaching, Research, and Outreach Activities at African Universities

Zeelen

2012

IJHE

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This article discusses the current dynamics at African universities concerning the quality of teaching, the role of research, the level of community outreach, and the position of higher education in the educational sector as a whole. Points of reference are experiences at the University of the North in South Africa as well as experiences at universities in other African countries such as Uganda, Tanzania, Mozambique, and Ghana.

One of our central conclusions is that the system of education in Africa in general, and higher education in particular, is highly dysfunctional, especially in terms of wasted human capacity as well as financial resources. African higher education institutions cannot close their eyes to the immense skills shortage and the frightening percentages of (youth-) unemployment. This leads to the recommendation that the responsibilities of a university concerning the generation of relevant new knowledge, preparing students adequately as active citizens for the challenges in the labour market, contributing to the development of communities, and fostering critical thinking need to be given high priority.

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Participation for Development: Does the Decentralisation Policy in Tanzania Make a Difference?

Cited by 18 publications

References 6 publications

Decentralisation and health services delivery in Tanzania: Analysis of decision space in planning, allocation, and use of financial resources

Decentralisation and health services delivery in Tanzania: Analysis of decision space in planning, allocation, and use of financial resources

In Search of a Link between Planning and Service Delivery: How can we Explicate Service Delivery Gap Using Primary Education and Agricultural Extension Services in Tanzania?

Universities in Africa: Working on Excellence for Whom? Reflections on Teaching, Research, and Outreach Activities at African Universities

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