It is with delight that we bring to you the
first edition of the Newsletter covering
the period between January to June
2017. The edition presents to you yet
another round of updates in brief re
surfacing within the Foundation. In
implementing the second year of our
Medium Term Strategic Plan 2016 –
2020, the Foundation has been in its full
mast operations in fulfilling its mandate
research being the core one. Apart from
research, the Foundation also embarks in
Governance and Capacity Development,
Commissioned Studies and Knowledge
Management and Innovation.
In the first half of the year 2017, the
Strategic Research and Publication
Department continued with the
implementation of projects which
started in the previous year, including;
Enhancing Industrialization in Tanzania
as a Pivotal Pillar of Economic Growth:
A Mapping of Extant Industrialization
Potentials, aiming at identifying and
documenting industrialization potential
and exact areas of industrialization
by sector in these regions, such as
Leather sector, Pharmaceutical, Cotton,
Urbanization and Special economic
zone and Out of School Children (OOSC)
in the Primary Education System in Mara
Region aiming at profiling the out of
school children in Mara Region, as well
as to profile all available public/ private
schools, and identify potential support
services and organization that extend
to support these children to or re-enroll
in schools. Apart from these projects
the Department managed to prepare;
two issues of QER covering the period
of July-September 2016, Published ten
(10) policy briefs, published three (3)
discussion papers, Annual Report 2016
and one study report.
Under the Commissioned Studies, the
Department among other activities is
responsible for conducting demand
driven policy researches. In this first
half of the year 2017, it managed to
implement a total of eleven studies falling
under four ESRF’s strategic themes
namely; Inclusive Growth, Employment
and Industrialization; Natural resources
and environment management; and
Social Service Delivery and Social
Protection. Some of the ongoing
projects include; Formulation of Annual
Action Plan Program 2017, 11th EDF
Interventions for Tanzania in Agriculture
Sector (Horticulture), Scaling up Seeds
& Technologies (SSTP), Adoption Survey
in Tanzania and National Tourism Policy
Review 1999
The Governance and Capacity
Development proceeded with its
mandate, whereby in this period it
managed to conduct six policy dialogues,
such as Impact of mining in special
inequality in Africa and the impact of
long term cooperation between Sweden
and Tanzania. It also carried out two
knowledge sharing workshops and four
short course trainings in Dodoma, Dar es
Salaam, Zanzibar and Mwanza.
The Knowledge Management and
Innovation (KMI) Department continued
implementing Pro-Poor Economic
Growth and Environmentally Sustainable
Development (PEI) Project and other
routine activities. In this first half of the
year the Department conducted a training
workshop on “the role of community
radios on rural development: Focusing
on contents, financial and institutional
sustainability” aiming at imparting
knowledge to community radios to be
able to sustain their respective radios
in contents generation, financial and
institutional areas. The workshop
benefitted 18 participants from community
radios supported by PEI Project.
The Department also facilitated the
launching of Simiyu Investment Guide
which is the outcome of the study
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