To Assess The Effectiveness Of Vital Registration In Tanzania: A Case Of Njombe District

ABSTRACT

This study was curried out to identify and examine the factors that contribute low

vital registration in Njombe District and tried to investigate how these factors have

been contributed to the existing inadequacy record of enrolment around the

communities. Both quantitative and qualitative information were collected and

supplementary by secondary data form various secondary source. Most of the

quantitative data were analyzed using Statistical Package for Social Science (SPSS)

while qualitative information was analyzed using content analysis

The result from the study indicated that, how vital registration various factors, these

included lack of awareness of the communities, low rate of education level, low

income status among people inhabiting. Other factors include penalties for being late

in registering within the prescribed time, long distance for residential areas to

registration centers, long procedures to get certificates, lack of trained personnel, and

unclear guideline by he government about general structure of vital recoding

processes

Some factors which contribute to inefficiency of enrolment include low level of

knowledge of the civilians on the value of vital registration and also due untrained

personal. Partly inefficiency is attributed by lack of involvement of local

leader/chiefs in the system. There is a need for government to increase efforts on

polices in governance of vital registration in the sovereign nation like Tanzania. This

would enable the government to manage vital registration effectively