Zanzibar women need capacity building for general elections

Zanzibar women need capacity building for general elections
Daily News
WOMEN in Zanzibar are lobbying for capacity building, a move they have described crucial in enabling them participate actively in the forthcoming general elections. The call for help was echoed by community women groups when they gathered to share ...

Daily News

Habari Zinazoendana

11 years ago

AllAfrica.Com

01 Jul

Building Capacity for Research and Training in Tanzania

Building Capacity for Research and Training in Tanzania
AllAfrica.com
Dar es Salaam — Quintino Mgani is professor of chemistry at the University of Dar es Salaam, Tanzania. He also coordinates the SABINA (Southern African Biochemistry and Informatics for Natural Products) network of the Regional Initiative in Science and ...

 

9 years ago

The Independent

09 Dec

Scores of Zanzibar women forcibly divorced for voting in Tanzania elections

The Independent
Scores of Zanzibar women forcibly divorced for voting in Tanzania elections
The Independent
Up to 50 women in Zanzibar have been divorced for taking part in the recent Tanzanian elections against the will of their husbands, according to lawyers and women's rights campaigners. Mzuri Issa, coordinator of the Tanzania Media Women's Association ...
Women in Zanzibar divorced for voting in elections, suffrage the first battle ...Firstpost
Scores of women 'divorced or abandoned' for...

 

10 years ago

TheCitizen

30 Dec

Report ranks Tanzania top in capacity building

>A new report ranks Tanzania first in capacity development in Africa.According to the 2014 Africa Capacity Report (ACR), released by the Zimbabwe-based African Capacity Building Foundation (ACBF), Tanzania is the best performer in policy environment, capacity for implementation and capacity to generate development results.

 

11 years ago

TheCitizen

28 Jun

INSIGHT: Capacity building entails ‘requisite research funds’

>Let’s face it, research in Tanzania is side-lined regardless of the remarkable boost on its spending. The 1986 Tanzania’s science and technology policy specified to spend 3.5 per cent of the GDP on the advancement of science and technology in the country. But it was later noted that the spending was not achievable. In 1995, the policy was revised and it was recommended that the research budget should be at least one per cent of the GDP.

 

10 years ago

Ykileo

UK GOVERNMENT MUST INVEST ON CAPACITY BUILDING TO FIGHT CYBERCRIMES — Dr. ALI.

Dr. Ali, My digital forensics investigation lecture during my bachelor degree argued the UK government to invest on skills and police resources to tackle cybercrime. He started with the statistics by saying; the cost of cybercrime to the UK economy is around £27 billion per year, around 2% of national GDP. Some experts suggest this is too small, excluding as it does important vectors of cybercrime such as malware.

Computer security firm Norton estimates that more than 12.5m people in the UK...

 

10 years ago

Ykileo

THE NEED OF CAPACITY BUILDING TO MINIMIZE SKILLS SHORTAGE IN THE FIELD OF CYBERSECURITY

The CEO of the world's largest security software vendor Symantec has said in reports that the demand for the cybersecurity workforce is expected to rise by 6 million professionals globally by 2019, with a projected shortfall of 1.5 million. That will leave companies and information less protected than they should be against cybercriminals.

Apparently, despite of skills shortage in the field of cybersecurity – There is a very low effort done to increase the number of experts in the field. I...

 

10 years ago

Michuzi

ESAURP, FSDT launches a project of formalization and capacity building of MSMEs in Tanzania.

  Eastern and Southern African Universities Research Programme (ESAURP) has today launched a project geared on formalizing of Micro, Small and Medium entrepreneurs (MSMEs) covering ten (10) regions of mainland Tanzania; Arusha, Kilimanajaro, Mbeya, Iringa, Kagera, Mtwara, Kigoma, Singida, Morogoro, Dodoma.  

The project, sponsored by Financial Sector Deepening Trust (FSDT) will target a total of 1,500 (150 from each region) businesses/ entrepreneurs.
Speaking to reporters, ESAURP Executive...

 

10 years ago

AllAfrica.Com

27 Nov

EU Naval Force Warship BNS Leopold I Conducts Maritime Capacity Building ...

EU Naval Force Warship BNS Leopold I Conducts Maritime Capacity Building ...
AllAfrica.com
On 19 and 20 November, during her recent port visit to Dar Es Salam, EU Naval Force warship BNS Leopold I hosted members of the Tanzanian Navy in support of EUCAP Nestor's initiative to conduct Local Maritime Capability Building (LMCB). On the first ...

 

10 years ago

Women Should Stand Up To Be Counted

11 Aug

Towards General Elections

Towards General Elections - Women Should Stand Up to Be Counted
AllAfrica.com
THIRTY-FIVE-year old Dumangi Mhando, a first degree holder from the University of Dar es Salaam, dreams of becoming a Member of Parliament this year. But she says her dream will never come true because she is first, a woman and second, poor.

 

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