Browsing by Author "Malisa, Emmanuel T."

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    A narrative review of community engagement in the identification, implementation, monitoring and evaluation of health projects in Tanzania
    (TAJOCODE, 2024) Jesse, Angela M.; Malisa, Emmanuel T.
    Community engagement in development projects enhances community ownership, improves capacities of the involved stakeholders, and ensures sustainability of projects. Reviews have focused on community engagement in water projects, road construction and education services. This study reviewed the community engagement in health projects due to their importance to human life. A narrative review was conducted, mainly through ResearchGate, GoogleSearch, GoogleScholar and ScienceDirect. A conceptual framework was constructed based on the reviewed literature. The study found that there were health projects which were successfully implemented due to proper community engagement while to most of the projects the community engagement was faced with numerous challenges including poor communication between technical staff and the community; unqualified technical staff; poor community engagement process; poor management capability and limited transparency. While success of health projects is subject to numerous factors, community engagement throughout the project is crucial because it influences the other factors. Therefore, community engagement ought to receive the utmost importance when contemplating planning and implementing health projects. There is a need to employ technical staff who are well-trained and experienced in community mobilization before projects identification starts. This should be coupled with supporting community engagement in all stages of a project.
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    Factors influencing implementation of strategic plans in local government authorities of Tanzania: evidence from Kishapu and Shinyanga district councils
    (SARC Publisher, 2023) Mbundu, Boaz. M; Malisa, Emmanuel T.
    This paper assessed the effectiveness of implementation of strategic plans in Tanzania’s local government authorities. Specifically, the study was guided by the following specific objectives; to identify factors influencing implementation of strategic plans in LGAs, to find out the perception of employees on the factors influencing implementation of strategic plans in LGAs and to establish the ranking of factors influencing implementation of strategic plans in LGAs. Audit reports for four consecutive years from the Controller and Auditor General (CAG) for financial years 2014/15; 2015/16; 2016/17 and 2017/18 revealed that, implementation of strategic plans in LGAs of Tanzania was ineffective with indications of poor linkage of budgets and strategic plans, lack of clarity, poor communication of strategies, unbudgeted expenditures, misuse of resources and inadequate monitoring and evaluations and hence established the gap of this study. The study employed a descriptive multiple embedded case study design. The sample size of this study was 138 respondents. Descriptive statistics were used to describe both dependent and independent variables while binary logistic regression regression analysis tested whether individually and collectively independent variables have any influence on implementation of strategic plans in Tanzania’s local government authorities also t-test and Kendal coefficient of concordance employed to reveal the attitude of respondents in the study area. Study results reveal that leadership, culture, community engagement and motivation influence the implementation and respondent have positive attitude on implementation of strategics plans in local government. This concluded that the joint effect of independent variables can influence implementation of strategic plan in local government authorities. The findings of the study are expected to be useful to the management and decision makers to form a basis for improving implementation of strategies. Also, it is recommended that studies to be conducted to other variables which influence implementation of strategic plans especially in different population in Tanzania’s local government authorities and the public sector at large