Assessment of Factors Affecting Employees’ Promotion in Zanzibar Government Organization: A Case of the Ministry of Social Welfare, Youth, Women and Children Development

Employee promotion yet remains a critical issue in Zanzibar public organizations that is why several institutions were established at different periods for the purpose of putting into effect the government policies and directives related to employment and promotion. Therefore, this study aimed at assessing the factors affecting employees’ promotion in Zanzibar Government Organizations specifically on Appraisal system, Scheme of Service, Institutional Financial Capacity and implementation of Promotion Policy using the case study of Ministry of Social Welfare, Youth, Women and Children Development. Methods used in this study entail purposive sampling for nomination of the departments’ directors and chief planners, simple random sampling for selection of ministry’ officers. Data were collected through interview guide for directors and chief planners while questionnaires for ordinary officers. Study findings revealed that 77.5 percent of the respondents do not implement performance appraisal system and 73.8 percent never perform scheme of service. The findings also disclosed 72.5 percent of the employees were not promoted. Also employees responded that their institution by 78.8 percent do not allocate fund for promotion purpose. While 85.0 percent respondents admitted the deficiency of Promotion Policy implementation. Conclusively there is lack of implementation of Performance Appraisal, Scheme of Services, and Budget Allocation of fund as well as Promotion Policy. It is recommended that provision of education, transparency and responsibility should be undertaken for appropriate implementation of Performance Appraisal System, Scheme of Service, Promotional Policy and Fund Allocation

Mobile Healthcare Solution: Using Mobile Phones to Improve Healthcare Services in Zanzibar

ABSTRACT Technology is the important tool today to improve our lives and solve the problems of the world. It has a crucial role to play in achieving the development. The mobile technology has great potential to solve the social, political and economic matters. This study has aim to improve the healthcare services using new and more flexible mobile third generation technology. The study presents the implementation of reasonable solution that allow patients to access the medical services through his/her mobile phone at anytime, anyplace and everywhere in the locally relevant. The research's data were collected in both primary and secondary methods. Where the primary data were collected straight from the sources and were gathered through the survey. The totals of 77 respondents were participated to answer the questionnaires which were selected randomly and the secondary data were collected from related literatures. The findings indicated that the popularity of using mobile phones is on the rise in developing countries including Zanzibar, while the healthcare services are still more challenging. The finding data were observed there is necessity to use mobile technologies in order to improve the healthcare services to the people. The two mobile services Short Message Service (SMS) and Multimedia Message Service (MMS) were reviewed and were recommended to be used for providing the healthcare services. The contribution of this study in mobile health is that the communication between user and hospital server were done through the mobile phone provider compared to reviewed studies where communication made using wireless network

REDD herrings or REDD menace: response to Beymer-Farris and Bassett

Norwegian funded REDD+ projects in Tanzania have attracted a lot of attention, as has the wider REDD+ policy that aims to reduce deforestation and degradation and enhance carbon storage in forests of the developing countries. One of these REDD+ projects, managed by WWF Tanzania, was criticised in a scientific paper published in GEC, and consequently in the global media, for being linked to attempted evictions of communities living in the Rufiji delta mangroves by the Government of Tanzania, allegedly to make the area ‘ready for REDD’. In this response, we show how this eviction event in Rufiji mangroves has a history stretching back over 100 years, has nothing to do with REDD+ or any policy changes by government, and is not in any way linked to the work of any WWF project in Tanzania. We also outline some of the broader challenges faced by REDD+ in Tanzani