ABSTRACT This study sought to assess the factors motivating employee‟s performance in the delivery of public services, and the impact on socio economic development using a case study of the Ministry for State President Office Public Service and Good Governance – Zanzibar (PO-PSGG). Both qualitative and quantitative research approaches were used and a sample of 43 respondents was taken, where 36 were the lower level employees, 3 were the managers, and 4 were the human resource officers. T...
ABSTRACT Despite of the existence of internal audit units in public institutions, misappropriation and embezzlement of funds, has been a common practice as reported by CAG from year to year. This study was established to assess the auditing function as a tool for accountability in LGAs. The study intended to accomplish three objectives, namely; to investigate on the adherence of auditing procedures in financial management in LGAs, to analyze the performance of auditing function in Local Gove...
ABSTRACT In Nigerian Universities, an essential factor is academic adjustment. There is always the need for adjustment among undergraduate students. This study examined gender disparity, emotional regulation and social anxiety in the academic adjustment of first year university students. This study adopted an expos! facto research design. A total of 297 participants were sampled in this study using convenience sampling technique. The participants' mean age was 19.24 years with standard devia...
ABSTRACT Agriculture for over fifty years now is regarded as the backbone of Tanzanian economy, and women are estimated to be involved as about 70 to 80 percent. Among the major crops cultivated, rice is the second most important crop after maize. In 2013, Tanzania is estimated to produce 883 tons of rice while consumption is about 1,006 tons, making Tanzania to be self sufficient for rice to the extent of only 91%, and to date it is ranking 14 in Africa and 137 in the World, and the second ...
ABSTRACT The government of the United Republic of Tanzania has been struggling to deliver services of high quantity and quality to her citizens, and to ensure effective mobilization of resources. Basing on this core objective, the government-mandated a tool, called Open Performance and Review Appraisal (OPRAS), for appraising purposes in its institutions. The major purpose of introducing OPRAS was to enable proper and more effective use of human resources among others. Despite of government ...
ABSTRACT China is essentially a state par excellence, a strong state like the United States with expansionist behaviour and attitudes. Demographically, China has the largest population in the world, 1.3 billion inhabitants that is more than the entire African continent. It has the third largest stock of foreign direct investment after the United States and United Kingdom. Its ideology has been the socialist market economy which embodied elements of pragmatism, free market and state dirigisme...
ABSTRACT The historical ties between the United States and Israel is a crucial factor in determining the United States Middle East policy. The policy thrust of successive American leaders in the Middle East has been to preserve the state of Israel and help it to maintain military and economic advantage over her neighbors. However, the relationship between the present American Administration and her Israel counterpart has been strained over disagreements on the best strategy to adopt in confr...
ABSTRACT The study‟s aim was to find out the causes of mass failure of Zanzibar O‟level examination for the period of 10 years from 2002-2012. The study was guided by three tasks. First, to find out the causes of mass failure in Zanzibar secondary schools from 2002 – 2012, Secondly, to examine the impact of having secondary school in every constituency in Zanzibar, finally, to suggest the possible ways of solving the problem of massive failure. The sample of the study constituted 116 r...
ABSTRACT The study aimed at investigating the “Role of Team Work in Promoting Organizational Performance: A Case Study of Tanzania Electricity Supply Company Limited Dar es Salaam”. The goal of this study was to investigate the role of team work in promoting organization performance and specifically the study focused on examining the relationship between various department and their responsibilities in company‟s performance. The relationship between team work and organizational perform...
ABSTRACT This study examined Attitudes towards the use of modern contraceptives in family planning among the community of the selected four wards in Mugumu town, namly Machochwe, Natabigo and Kisangura of Serengeti district, Mara region. This study intended to examine attitude towards the use of modern contraceptives based on the following specific objectives: 1) to assess perception on the use of modern contraceptives, 2) to identify types of modern contraceptives that are commonly used, a...
ABSTRACT The general objective of this research was to assess the production and marketing of maize for poverty reduction to smallholder farmers in Hanga and Mlilayoyo village in Namtumbo District. The specific objectives included to investigate expenses on major inputs on maize production per acre; to assess the economic relationship between the expenses for agricultural inputs and the output in terms of the value of bags of maize per acre; to identify and analyze maize price setters and de...
ABSTRACT This study examined community perceptions on services quality of primary health care facilities in Rural Monduli District. This was accomplished through qualitative methods of data collection and analysis, namely semi-structured interviews and FGDs for primary data and review of related studies like scholarly publications and books. The study was conducted to 180 participants as an in-depth study and the sample was homogenous. Participants were community members, key informants and ...
ABSTRACT This study focuses on the impact of in-service training on enhancing performance of public secondary teachers in Tanzania, a case of Dodoma Municipality. It was guided by four specific objectives which were: to examine the number of secondary teachers who attend in-service training on the first five years of their service in teaching profession, to investigate the contribution of in-service training in upgrading performance of secondary teachers, to analyze the major challenges faci...
ABSTRACT This study aimed at examining the impacts of corporal punishment in school Education in Tanzania primary schools. Specific objectives included ; one to examine why most of teachers prefer to use corporal punishment in primary schools,two:to examine the effects of corporal punishment in primary schools to the pupils; and third to examine the measures to be done in order to minimize corporal punishment in primary schools. The researcher used qualitative research, which included of in ...
ABSTRACT Adolescent Sexual Reproductive Health Education is a matter of concern for developed and developing countries due to the fact that most of adolescents suffered from Sexual Reproductive Health (SRH) complications and problems including; teenage pregnancies, Sexual Transmitted Infection (STI‟s) including HIV/AIDS, early marriages and unsafe abortion, immoral sex including; homosexuality, sexual violence and unsafe sex are common practices among Zanzibar students. Accordingly, the o...