ABSTRACT Teenage pregnancy is one of the complex health and development problems facing the world. In Tanzania, teenage pregnancy has been identified as one of the reasons for girls dropping out from school. The purpose of this study was to determine the contribution of school based reproductive health education programme on teenage pregnancy. The study adopted a cross-sectional exploratory design and was conducted in Mtwara District and Mtwara Municipality, Tanzania. Simple random sampling ...
ABSTRACT The study was conducted in Kilosa district. The overall objective was to show the contribution of MFIs in poverty alleviation through women IGAs. The study aimed at identifying MFIs operating in the study area; common IGAs performed by women groups, assessing the contribution of MFIs towards poverty alleviation and analyzing factors affecting the performance of women’s IGAs. Cross-sectional research design with structured questionnaire was used to collect primary information from...
Abstract The main purpose of this study was to determine the conditions under which sustainable agriculture functions as an effective conservation tool whereby, increasing crop production while maintaining sustainability is a priority for agricultural development projects, particularly in Tanzania. Factors contributing to the effectiveness of Conservation Agriculture (CA) technologies after project closure in improving the sustainability of cropping systems to participating and non-participat...
ABSTRACT Adoption of Conservation Agricultural Practices (CAPs) is fundamental for ensuring improved agricultural productivity. This study was conducted among Smallholder farmers to assess factors associated with adoption of CAPs for Land Management in Uluguru Mountains in Morogoro district. A purposive sampling was employed to select three villages where different CAPs are promoted and a sample size of 100 smallholder farmers was selected. Both quantitative and qualitative data were collecte...
ABSTRACT Gender-based inequality is a phenomenon that transcends the majority of the world‟s cultures, religions, nations and income groups. In most societies, the differences and inequalities are manifest in the responsibilities each are assigned, in the activities they undertake, in their access to and control over resources and in decision-making opportunities. A study of gender analysis on milk value chain was conducted in Tanga City and Iringa Municipality. The overall objective of th...
ABSTRACT This study was done in Mahale Ecosystem to assess the achievement of COCOBA in improving rural livelihood and sustainable conservation. This study was based on the fact that, while there are adequate information o n micro credit and poverty reduction few exist on livelihood improvement and sustainable conservation of biodiversity. Specifically the study sought to document socio-economic activities undertaken by COCOBA group members and others in the study area; determine the perform...
ABSTRACT Undernutrition continues to be a major cause of high infant and below five years children mortality in Tanzania. This study was carried out to find out factors influencing nutritional status of under five year's children in Mbarali district. Nutritional assessment was done by using of anthropometric measurements which were subsequently compared to WHO criterion (SD classification) using summary indices of nutritional status: weight-for-age, height-for-age and weight-for-height ...
ABSTRACT The impact of HIV/AIDS on family dissolution is one of the most serious problems facing the world at this era of HIV/AIDS. The traditional African family is collapsing very rapidly due to HIV/AIDS pandemic. Implications of having HIV/AIDS in the family have been documented in many parts of the world. They range from increased medical costs and expenditures on funerals to withdrawal of family members from work or school to look after those who are ill. Also these problems lead to burd...
ABSTRACT This research was done to analyze members‟ satisfaction with health services delivered by Community Health Insurance Fund (CHIF) in Kyela district with the specific objectives to: document the modality by which CHIF provides health services, determine the effects of CHIF services on members‟ health care utilization and financial protection and evaluate CHIF members‟ satisfaction with the health care services. The study population was CHIF beneficiaries, and data were collected ...
ABSTRACT Despite efforts made by the Tanzanian government to provide primary education to all children, many disabled children are still out of school. Therefore, this research was carried out to determine the economic, social and cultural determinants of access to primary education among disabled children in Dodoma Municipality and Chamwino District. The main objective was to analyse factors that influence access to primary education among disabled children. The specific objectives were to: ...
ABSTACT This study examined the influence of cultural dimensions on performance of women’s entrepreneurial initiatives in Mvomero District. Specifically the study aimed to; examine variations of cultural dimensions between men and women in the study area, asses differential performance of women’s and men’s owned entrepreneurial enterprises, examine the influence of cultural dimensions on growth of women’s entrepreneurial enterprises and identify the best predictor of women’s perform...
ABSTRACT A field survey was carried out on Tarime zebu cattle (TZC) in Tarime district (Mara region) in order to describe farmers’ traditional knowledge practices of cattle preferences, productive, reproductive, breed-specific management constraints, desired policy interventions and phenotypic characteristics of TZC. Information from structured questionnaire of 120 farmers, twenty key informants, field measurements such as heart girth, height at withers and body length of 17 males, 23 castr...
ABSTRACT Poor construction with temporary material exposes families to all kinds of health and safety risks, especially from ticks and insects concealed in unfinished mud walls and earthen floors, vermin and snakes in thatch, parasite seeking human host and malarial mosquitoes entering through unscreened windows and doorway. This study was conducted to identify factors influencing the ownership of modern houses among households in Iringa District. Specifically, the study examined the major fa...
ABSTRACT This study aimed at assessingfarmers’ attitude towards warehouse receipt system in NewalaDistrict. The study sought to achieve the following specific objectives. Firstly, to describe the warehouse receipt system that operates for small holder farmers in Newala. Secondly, to determineknowledge of the farmers on warehouse receipt system, thirdly, to determine the attitude of farmers towards the operations of the warehouse receipts system and lastly, to determine the contribution of c...
ABSTRACT A study to assess community attitudes towards HIV/AIDS prevention was conducted in Morogoro municipality, Tanzania, between November 2007 and January 2008. A total of 100 randomly selected households were included in this study, located in five wards randomly selected from the 19 wards of the municipality. Data were collected using questionnaire interviews and focus group discussions (the latter conducted in a different subpopulation). Data were analysed using statistical package for...