[afro-nets] Understanding Patterns of Accountability in Tanzania

[Arjanne Rietsema <Arjanne.Rietsema@cordaid.nl>]

Understanding Patterns of Accountability in Tanzania
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Inception Report, February 2005
 
Oxford Policy Management, UK; Chr. Michelsen Institute, Norway
Research on Poverty Alleviation (REPOA), Tanzania
 
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This Inception Report is the first of three components for the 
DFID funded project "Understanding Patterns of Accountability in 
Tanzania" for the multi-donor Tanzania Governance Working Group 
(GWG) of the Development Partners to Tanzania. The objective of 
the study is to gain more in-depth knowledge about actual ac-
countability processes between government officials, state in-
stitutions and ordinary citizens and a better understanding of 
the socio-economic and political context of Tanzania. 
 
The task for this Inception Report has been to map the organisa-
tions, institutions and processes that mark different account-
ability relationships in Tanzania. The authors have done this 
along the dimensions of horizontal, electoral, societal and ex-
ternal accountability. They have distinguished between these 
four dimensions of accountability in order to understand how ac-
countability might work differently at different levels of gov-
ernance. A table summarises the findings of the mapping exercise 
against the background of the three common criteria of account-
ability relationships ? transparency, answerability and control-
lability.