Patterns of Accountability in Tanzania
Project Information
OPM led a DFID funded project on Understanding Patterns of Accountability in Tanzania. The objective of the study was to gain more in-depth knowledge about accountability processes between government officials, state institutions and ordinary citizens and a better understanding of the socio-economic and political context of Tanzania. The study distinguishes between horizontal, electoral and societal and external accountability and is structured in three components. Component One mapped the organisations, institutions and processes that mark these four different accountability relationships. Component Two conducted a micro-survey and two ethnographic studies to achieve a better bottom up understanding of citizens' expectations of power holders, their perspectives on entitlements and the responses they face when acquiring public goods and services. Component Three focused on the values, incentives and power relations that drive government and how - from the top-down perspective - this affects its accountability to citizens.