Local Government Finances and Financial Management in Tanzania

Observations from Six Councils, 2002 – 2003 The major focus of the Formative Process Research Programme is to observe changes in local authorities in the provision of basic services to the public. Moreover, the research aims to analyse changes in local authorities’ capacity for financial management and revenue enhancement, and changes relating to governance, including […]

Low awareness amongst citizens of local government reforms

The overriding goal of the Local Government Reform (LGR) Programme is to improve public services to ordinary citizens. This reform programme appears to be one of the least known policy reforms in Tanzania. In this brief, we present the results from a comprehensive citizens’ survey of the LGR. This survey was conducted recently and identifies the […]