Public Accounts Committees in Eastern Africa
A Comparative Analysis with a Focus on Tanzania The Public Accounts Committee is one of the standing committees of the Parliament of Tanzania. Among its major functions, the Committee is responsible for scrutinizing government expenditures, government financial year accounts and any other accounts presented to the National Assembly as the Committee deems fit to examine. […]
Public Accounts Committees in Eastern and Southern Africa: A Comparative Analysis
This article provides the first and most comprehensive analysis of Public Accounts Committees (PACs) from Eastern and Southern Africa building on the work of McGee, Jacobs, Stapenhurst, and Staddon. By analyzing an original set of data, this article shows that PACs in these two regions are bigger, have more staff members, and are more likely […]
When bottom-up meets top-down
The limits of local participation in local government planning in Tanzania This report discusses issues that concern planning at district level as perceived by representatives of different districts in Tanzania. In the context of this report planning is taken as a process of choosing or making choices/priorities of interventions in pursuits of sustainable development in […]
Making Tourism Work for Tanzania
The tourism industry in Tanzania has experienced an extraordinary growth over the years. The success of our tourism industry is hardly surprising. Few destinations worldwide can compete with what Tanzania has to offer. But tourism is a very competitive industry: destinations rise and decline. The tourism hot spots of the 1950s were entirely forgotten by […]