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“Good Governance Pays” – Part le Pili | Swahili Street
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Raia Mwema on OGP: missed opportunity. Going once…. going twice…. →. 8220;Good Governance Pays” – Part le Pili. March 25, 2012. Crony 2012, posters by Will St. Leger, photographed by Darragh Doyle, 25 March 2012, Temple Bar, Dublin. Those were the words of then Irish Prime Minister Bertie Ahern (pictured above….) in January 2008, addressed to Irish people living in Dar es Salaam. I blogged his Dar speech at the time. But it doesn’t pull its punches in its pathology of Irish politics and public admi...
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Going once….. going twice…. | Swahili Street
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8220;Good Governance Pays” – Part le Pili. 8:30: Arrival, Coffee and Croissants →. Going once…. going twice…. March 28, 2012. I have 200 of your school desks in the store. If it wasn’t for the election laws, I’d have brought them today. But if you vote for our candidate, I’ll call one head teacher after another and get them to you. Part of a stump speech in the Kirumba Ward by-election campaign in Mwanza Municipality, reported in this week’s Raia Mwema ( my translation,. March 28, 2012 at 22:59. And our ...
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“There’s always a reason to riot in TZ” | Swahili Street
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Open Government Partnership in Tanzania – what went wrong? Tanzania’s Draft OGP Plan: what’s new? 8220;There’s always a reason to riot in TZ”. December 7, 2011. So said a twitterer this week in a brief exchange on Tanzania’s series of riots over the past year. There are plenty of reasons: rising unemployment, increasing inequalities and a dismal education system come to mind. January saw two rioters killed. With over 130 arrests in July’s ruckus. Mbeya erupted in November. As did Tabora to a lesser degre.
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Tanzania’s OGP Action Plan: what’s in the works? | Swahili Street
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8:30: Arrival, Coffee and Croissants. OGP Tanzania: how’s that working out? Central Bank edition, with an update… →. Tanzania’s OGP Action Plan: what’s in the works? April 18, 2012. Tanzania’s Open Government Partnership Action Plan is finally ready. You can download your own copy. From the OGP website. Happily, you can also compare it to the draft plan which was prepared last year. Go here. And you’ll find it under the ‘introduction’ tab. On access to information, the draft made this commitment. Prepare...
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OGP Tanzania: how’s that working out? Central Bank edition, with an update… | Swahili Street
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Tanzania’s OGP Action Plan: what’s in the works? OGP Tanzania: how’s that working out? Central Bank edition, with an update…. May 13, 2012. To hide reports from the public is a form of corruption. The right to information is a basic right under our constitution. We don’t want the shock of being told that the our Foreign Reserves have dried up. Zitto Kabwe, MP for Kigoma North, lays into the Central Bank on his blog today – and his accusations are pretty serious. The reports from recent months] are concea...
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8:30: Arrival, Coffee and Croissants | Swahili Street
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Going once…. going twice…. Tanzania’s OGP Action Plan: what’s in the works? 8:30: Arrival, Coffee and Croissants. April 12, 2012. The use of social media to enlarge the democratic space in sub-Saharan Africa will not thrive without intervention by donors*. Discuss. The croissants will be served nine hours from now. From a Danida report that’s just out. Using ICT to Promote Governance. Share on Facebook (Opens in new window). Click to share on Twitter (Opens in new window). April 12, 2012 at 09:08. I don&...
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Raia Mwema on OGP: missed opportunity | Swahili Street
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The other Happy Valley. 8220;Good Governance Pays” – Part le Pili →. Raia Mwema on OGP: missed opportunity. February 29, 2012. Raia Mwema: usually one of Tanzania's more progressive and thoughtful newspapers. The long standing demand of good governance activists and those standing up to the secrecy surrounding public leaders’ wealth may be about to be addressed. That, in translation, is Tanzania weekly. On the central OGP website, or here on the Tanzanian government site. Our government sources say that ...
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Open Government Partnership in Tanzania – what went wrong? | Swahili Street
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8220;There’s always a reason to riot in TZ” →. Open Government Partnership in Tanzania – what went wrong? November 20, 2011. It’s been a busy week in Dar es Salaam in the transparency game. Tuesday saw the launch of the Tanzanian government’s Open Government Partnership process. OGP is a multi-lateral US and Brazilian-led initiative. Yesterday and today saw the launch of the Make Budgets Public campaign. A big NGO led initiative to make budgets in particular more open. Otherwise, the plan was mostly fill...
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Tanzania’s Draft OGP Plan: what’s new? | Swahili Street
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8220;There’s always a reason to riot in TZ”. Radio Tanzania Archives →. Tanzania’s Draft OGP Plan: what’s new? December 19, 2011. As promised at the December 7 Open Government Partnership meeting in Brasilia, Tanzania has made its draft plan available for comment. The actual commitments are to be found in the final three pages. The preceding six pages are a mind numbing litany of just about every ‘good governance’ initiative attempted in the past. Skip them. So where do we stand? It could even be called.
