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    Joining the dots: learning to work collaboratively to address climate change

    Stockholm Environment Institute, 2013
    This paper reflects on lessons from a study undertaken by the Stockholm Environment Institute and World Wildlife Fund (WWF) that focused on adaptation needs in Belize, Nepal and Tanzania, with an emphasis on the value of participatory and collaborative processes. It finds that current interventions are fragmented across many sectors and institutions both public and private.
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    Decentralising the management of bilateral development cooperation programmes in Tanzania: a Finnish example

    Eldis Document Store, 2011
    What is the potential of the decentralisation of bilateral development cooperation programmes as an aid to improving their performance in regard to poverty reduction?
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    Good governance: key to local government in implementing REDD

    2012
    Local Government Authorities (LGAs) are responsible for the provision of wide-ranging public services including environmental protection, forest conservation and development incentives, among others. But the key challenge for such incentives is governance.
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    Finding ways to build REDD+

    2012
    Cutting down forests contributes to climate change. REDD+ is an international program which tries to tackle this practice, and Tanzania is part of the process. Universities like SUA are assisting in this and asking themselves “How best should REDD+ be built to ensure for sustainable development?”.
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    Anthropogenic and natural influence on disease prevalence at the human-livestock-wildlife interface in the Serengeti ecosystem, Tanzania

    Norwegian University of Science and Technology, 2013
    Human activities in ecosystems interfere with natural processes and cause habitat fragmentation and loss. This restricts wildlife movement consequently reducing the gene flow and genetic diversity. Increased human encroachment on wildlife habitat compromises immunity and disturbs host-pathogen relationships resulting in disease outbreaks in naïve populations.
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    Nutrition in Africa in a global economy: perspectives, challenges and opportunities

    The Center for African Area Studies, Kyoto University, 2001
    This paper provides an overview of the nutritional situation in Africa and discusses briefly some of the factors that influence nutritional status of the different groups of the population. Malnutrition in Africa is increasing due to various factors, some of which involve the changing global economic policies.
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    Tackling Africa's chronic disease burden: from the local to the global

    Globalization and Health, 2010
    Africa faces a double burden of infectious and chronic diseases. While infectious diseases still account for at least 69% of deaths in the continent, age specific mortality rates from chronic diseases as a whole are actually higher in sub-Saharan Africa than in virtually all regions of the world, in both men and women.
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    Tanzania: ICT in education situational analysis

    2010
    This Situational Analysis reveals that the government and the MoEVT recognize the potential of ICT to act as a tool for improving education delivery, outcomes and impact, as evidenced through the national plans, policies and strategies.
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    Teachers’ perceptions about ICT for teaching, professional development, administration and personal use

    2011
    Tanzania has been investing in the integration of information and communications technologies (ICT) in education for several decades. However, little is known about teachers’ perceptions about ICT integration in education. This study examined teachers’ perceptions about the use of ICT tools for teaching, administration, professional development and personal use.
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    The role of indigenous knowledge and perceptions of pastoral communities on traditional grazing management in north-western Tanzania

    African Journal of Agricultural Research, 2012
    Traditional forage conservation, locally known as “ngitili”, which involves retaining an area of standing vegetation from the beginning of rainy season and opening it up for grazing at the peak of dry season, has become an important strategy for rangeland rehabilitation in the north-western semi-arid part of Tanzania.

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