Research Areas

Tanzania is faced with widespread environmental problems such as deforestation, soil erosion, pollution, the deterioration of aquatic systems, and a loss of biodiversity. Only about 22 per cent of Tanzania's land has mediwn to high fertility (United Nations Secretariat 1993). The rest of the land is not arable. This is largely because of unreliable rainfall, infertile soils and rampant pests and vennin. The areas with a high agricultural potential are often subjected to mechanized fanning, primarily for the production of cash crops.

Background and rationale for South–South workshops—an introduction to the workshop on smallholder dairy production and marketing—Constraints and opportunities

Tanzania has recently scaled up a piloted conditional cash transfer programme to target the extreme poor across the country. In addition, there has been moves to finalise a national social protection framework and the possibility of introducing an old age pension has been announced. This paper focuses on these three main social protection developments in Tanzania and looks into the role of different bureaucracies and their funding partners in shaping social protection policies.

There have long been conflicting interests between politicians, policy-makers and the government on the one hand, and the local people on the other, over the use of resources in Tanzania. One of these resources is wildlife. Most developing countries depend heavily on their natural resources, and Tanzania is no exception.

Since the 1990s, international organisations and funding bodies have become increasingly interested in the plight of pastoralists. Donors have compelled recipient countries with large numbers of pastoralists to take on board this agenda, pressuring governments to focus more on pastoralist issues in their Poverty Reduction Strategy Papers (PRSPs). Increasing donor support for the pastoralist agenda has also led to an increase in the civil society organizations championing pastoralist issues.

This is a procedure manual that has been developed by the Ministry of Health Human Resource Directorate with support from Elizabeth Glaser Pediatric AIDS Foundation (EGPAF).

The manual is comprised of disciplinary issues, recruitment procedures, management functions, training and  records management.

The National Agriculture Policy (NAP) defines the vision for development of the agricultural sector in Malawi over the next five years. By 2020, agriculture in Malawi will increasingly be oriented towards profitable commercial farming through specialization of smallholder farm production, output diversification at the national level, and value addition in downstream value chains. The NAP will guide the design of agricultural subsector policies, strategies, and other actions of the Government of Malawi over the next five years.

The 2005 Policy Measures for the Improvement of Health Research Co-ordination in Malawi has been in use for over seven years. As a first edition, it performed generally well as a co-ordinatory tool. However, during the period of its performance, a number of co-ordinatory and regulatory complexities, challenges and difficulties in the co-ordination, review and conduct of health research evolved which could no longer be adequately managed and addressed by the 2005 set of policy measures.

Persons with disabilities in Malawi, as in many other countries, face numerous challenges that result in their exclusion from the mainstream of society, making it difficult for them to access their fundamental social, political and economic rights. Many make their way through life impoverished, abandoned, uneducated, malnourished, discriminated against, neglected and vulnerable. For them, life is a daily struggle to survive. Whether they live in urban centres or in rural areas, they share these common problems.

This 2012 revised edition of the “National Policy Requirement and Guidance for the Provision of Insurance Cover for Research Participants in Clinical Trials in Malawi” includes extensive revisions to certain sections of the 2008 policy document. Such revisions aim at providing stakeholders further guidance and clarity on the policy elements.