Browsing by Author "Jesse, A."

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Planning Interface for social service delivery between local government authorities and corporates in Morogoro, Tanzania
(Center for Promoting Ideas, USA, 2018) Jesse, A.; Bengesi, K. M. K.
Drawing from Communicative Planning Theory (CPT), this paper examined planning interface for social service delivery between Local Government Authorities (LGA) and Corporates in Morogoro region using a case study design. Results revealed that LGAs planning process was inclusive and transparent enabling corporates to decide on kind of services to provide to communities. Conversely, Mtibwa Sugar Company was not transparent to share their planning decisions with the LGA whereas Kilombero Sugar Company was transparent in sharing their planning decisions to the LGA. Hence, LGAs planning processes are in line with CPT, which considers inclusiveness and transparent as core components for effective planning. The findings further revealed misalignment of planning seasons between the LGAs and corporates leading to double allocation of resources for some social services. The study recommends that there should be budget review by the LGA to relocate resources that corporates use to support community activities.
Resource Complementarity for Social Service Delivery: A Case of Corporates and Local Government Authorities in Morogoro, Tanzania
(2018) Jesse, A.; Bengesi, K. M. K.
Employing a case study design, this paper examined corporates’ resource complementarity to Local Government Authorities in Morogoro region. The findings revealed that as much as corporates such as Kilombero and Mtibwa Sugar Companies comit significant amount of resources through CSR to offer social services, which could otherwise be offered by the LGAs; the LGAs are less informed of the actual contribution made by corporates in terms of the actual budgets spent to complement social services in their areas of jurisdiction. The findings further revealed that poor flow of information from Villages and Wards levels to the District Council has accounted for this challenge, which has resulted into LGAs failing to acknowledge contribution made by the corporates. Failure of LGAs to acknowledge the contribution of Corporates has far reaching impact on the reputation of the corporates and the motivation of corporates to sustain resource complementarity to LGAs. This paper recommends that, there is a need to improve information system within LGAs on the resources complemented by corporates and other stakeholders for social services delivery. Such improvement should encompass production and submission of reports on resources and social services provided through CSRs by development stakeholders to the District Councils.
Synergy between local government authorities and corporates for social service delivery: a case of district councils and sugar companies in Morogoro, Tanzania
(Sokoine University of Agriculture, 2019) Jesse, A.
This study examined synergy between Local Government Authorities (LGAs) and corporates for social service delivery in Kilombero and Mvomero District Councils in which Kilombero and Mtibwa sugar companies are situated, respectively. Specifically, the study aimed at examining the environmental forces challenging LGAs and corporates for social service delivery; assess planning interface between LGAs and corporates for social service delivery; and examine resource complementarity between corporates and Local Government Authorities for social service delivery. A case study design was used in which 42 key informants and participants of four Focus Group Discussions were the sources of data. Content analysis was used to analyse data. The study found that LGAs and corporate’s response to the environmental forces including community needs for social services, policies such as employment policy as well as corporates response to competition and market situation contributed to social service delivery to communities. The study also found that LGAs planning process for social services was found to be inclusive and transparent enabling corporates to decide on kind of services to be provided to communities. On the other hand, Mtibwa Sugar Company was not transparent to share their planning decisions with the LGA because the decision on the social service to be implemented was made by the owner of the company in absence of LGAs leaders. On the other hand, Kilombero Sugar Company planning process for social service delivery was transparent because their planning decisions were shared with the LGA. This is because the LGA representative was among decision makers on the kind of social service to implement to communities through Corporates Social Responsibility (CSR). The study further found that, despite resources complemented by sugar companies to enable social service delivery, there were no reports at the district councils showing the amount used by corporates in financial terms to complement the LGAs budget in the study area. It was also found that LGAs planning process preceded that of corporates which resulted into failing of including corporates plans for social service provision through CSR. The study recommends that there should be measures to ensure that resources used by corporates and LGAs to respond to environmental forces are tapped and properly allocated to render social services to communities. Moreover, there should be budget review by the LGA to relocate resources that corporates use to support community activities. The study recommends further that, there is a need to improve information system within LGAs on the resource complemented by sugar companies for social services delivery. Such improvement should encompass production and submission of reports on resources and social services provided through CSRs by development stakeholders to the District Councils.