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Evaluation of Twaweza Strategic Plan 2015–2018, Programme Support in Tanzania

Evaluation of Twaweza Strategic Plan 2015–2018, Programme Support in Tanzania

Final Report

  • Year: 2019

  • Publication type: Decentralised evaluation

  • Author: Deograsias Mushi, Rasmus Hundsbæk Pedersen, Svend Erik Sørensen

Summary

The evaluation analyses the Tanzanian part of Twaweza’s 2015-2018 strategy. The strategy focused on basic education and opengovernment, and its overarching goals on enhanced responsiveness from authorities and greater citizen agency. All interventions fellwithin Twaweza’s theory of change. While operating within a context of shrinking civic space, Twaweza was overall successful. It waseffective in terms of activities, outputs and outreach and efficient in establishing partnerships and managing operations; yet did notmanage fully to link interventions to higher level change. Relations to government were mixed as Twaweza generated needed data oneducation, but challenged shrinking civic space.

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  • Topic: DemocracyDemocracy and human rights

  • Geographic area: Tanzania

  • Language: English

  • Publication number: 2019:27

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