ABSTRACT In Tanzania, the provision of education has been one of the most critical issues of government social policy after independence in 1961. However one of the aspects of the social pillar of the Tanzania Vision 2030 is education. Tanzania Vision 2030 points out education and training is an instrument to develop Tanzania to be a middle-income economy. Family background has been highlighted as of great important in moulding the performance of children in schools worldwide. This study sou...
ABSTRACT The study focused on factors influencing teacher turnover in public secondary schools in Monduli district. The study particularly sought to investigate factors influencing teacher turnover, impact of teacher turnover and strategies to retain. This study therefore investigated the factors responsible for this revolving door also called teacher turnover in public secondary schools in Monduli District. A sample size of 66 respondents was employed so as to get relevant and reliable info...
ABSTRACT The main objective of this study was to examine the Contribution of heads of school in curbing teacher‟s misconduct in Tanzanian public secondary schools. It involves views and/or experience from different groups of stakeholders in education systems in Kilimanjaro Region, more specifically in Moshi Municipal Council. The study employed both qualitative and quantitative approaches which were informed by a case study design. Data relevant to this study were collected through intervi...
ABSTRACT Challenges of private sector in providing public service in Tanzania as a case study of health service in Kinondoni Municipality are a goal of this investigation. In fact, the government of Tanzania has engaged various actors in public services delivery. The situation is divisive and in fact raises a need to study the extent to which public receive better services after engagement of the sector. As its methodology the study employed cross sectional as research design and sample size...
ABSTRACT This study assessed the factors affecting employees‟ attraction and retention in Local Government Authorities of Tanzania by using Njombe District Council as a case study. More specifically the study sought to: assess the status of employees‟ attraction and retention, examine the factors affecting employees‟ attraction and retention, analyze the challenges facing employees‟ attraction and retention, and suggest possible strategies to improve employees‟ attraction and reten...
ABSTRACT One of the basic social functions is to maintain amicable social groups. In order for social groups to attain this goal, adults use different strategies to make children. This study set out to examine challenges facing local government authorities in addressing the problem of street children in Tanzania, particularly in Dodoma Municipality. The research design adopted was a cross-sectional descriptive survey and a sample of 105 purposively selected respondents using the qualitative ...
ABSTRACT This study was set out to explore the impact of public-private partnership on health services delivery in Tanzania. There is a smooth relationship between public and private sector on provision of social services in Tanzania. This study reveals the extent in which public-private partnership has managed to achieve in the provision of health services to the people especially of Arusha District. A sample of 80 respondents was taken and these were public and private officials, specialis...
ABSTRACT Poverty is the state for the majority of the world’s people and nations which exits when certain sections of people cannot satisfy their basic primary needs in terms of food, cloth and shelter. Poverty and the poor are always associated with resourcelessness, choicelessness, insecurity and deprivation which create incapacities in the pursuit of dignified life in a given society for a person, household, group or community. The purpose of this study was to investigate the poverty si...
ABSTRACT The aim of this study was to assess the factors contributing to secondary school pregnancy and its impacts in Dodoma Municipality, Tanzania. One hundred respondents from two wards, Hombolo and Nzuguni were sampled for the study; whereby seventy students from two secondary schools were employed in the study. Data was collected using in-depth interviews, questionnaire and focus group discussion to allow the researcher a platform to ask both open-response questions and closed-response ...
ABSTRACT This study, concerned with the contribution of secondary school administrators, in promoting workers service delivery in public secondary schools. The main aim was to investigate to what extent the adoption and implementation of secondary school administrators in Tanzania, impacted service delivery in public secondary schools. The theoretical framework, have been created from the theories of Managerial, Transformation, Participative, Transactional, Post modern, Instructional, Contin...
Abstract The main objective of this dissertation was to investigate issues of cross-border migration and their effects on the project of SADC regional integration. The principal theoretical grounding comes from theories on migration, inclusive of their gender perspectives. Inclusive in this framework were perspectives of regionalism and its subsets of regionalisation, regional cooperation, regional integration and regional awareness/identity. The dissertation also examined competing theoretic...
Abstract The purpose of this study was to investigate the roles and challenges faced by Shack Dwellers Federation of Namibia‟s Savings Schemes, as stakeholders in housing provision in informal settlement areas. The study also looked at how the Shack Dwellers Federation of Namibia‟s Savings Schemes relate to other stakeholders such as NHAG, CoW and MRLGHRD. The rationale behind be study was to come up with an informal settlement housing scheme model suitable for the poor in Namibia. The qu...
ABSTRACT This paper looked at human resource development and the utilisation of expatriates in Namibia's Ministries of Health and Social Services and Basic Education, Sports and Culture. The two ministries are among those which were projected to continue to suffer from scarcities of skilled and professional human resources by the National Planning Commission (NPC, 2002). The broad objective of the study is to establish the progress made in addressing skills shortages and replacement of expatr...
ABSTRACT This paper looked at human resource development and the utilisation of expatriates in Namibia's Ministries of Health and Social Services and Basic Education, Sports and Culture. The two ministries are among those which were projected to continue to suffer from scarcities of skilled and professional human resources by the National Planning Commission (NPC, 2002). The broad objective of the study is to establish the progress made in addressing skills shortages and replacement of expatr...
ABSTRACT This study investigated the extent to which employee wellness is implemented in the Namibian public service in general, and based its findings on a case study of the Ministry of Environment and Tourism (MET). The study seek to answer five particular questions; to what extent employee wellness is supported by the organisation, what employee wellness activities are in place at the MET, the level of interest employees have towards wellness activities, how employees rate the effectivenes...