Innovations for Poverty Action worked with the Tanzanian non-profit, Twaweza, toevaluate the impact of three interventions: performance-based teacher incentives, sending capitation grants directly to school accounts, and the combination of both programs, in a representative sample of primary schools in Tanzania. While results showed that capitation grants on their own do not raise learning levels, the Twaweza intervention showed that sending money directly to school accounts is transparent, easy to implement, and results in an increase of learning resources at school.
Daily News linaripoti kuhusu juhudi za Serikali ya Tanzania kupunguza utegemezi kwa misaada ya nje kwenye bajeti yake ya mwaka 2011/12. Juhudi hizo, zikiongozwa na Waziri wa Fedha na Masuala ya Uchumi, Mustafa Mkulo, zinalenga kupunguza utegemezi kwa wahisani toka asilimia 25 ya bajeti ya Serikali hadi asilimia 10 katika miaka minne ijayo . Makala inamnukuu mchambuzi huru akihoji utashi wa Serikali kupunguza utegemezi kwa misaada wakati wa miaka miwili mfululizo Mamlaka ya Mapato imeshindwa kufikia lengo lake la ukusanyaji kodi .