Last week REPOA bid farewell to the outgoing Danish Ambassador to Tanzania Jesper Kammersgaard 🇩🇰 in recognition of her exemplary stewardship on the then bilateral agreements between Denmark and REPOA - through which implementation of REPOA’s current Strategic Plans was made possible.

Earlier today REPOA and South African Institute of International Affairs brought together stakeholders in Dar es Salaam for the African Peer Review Mechanism (APRM) Sensitization Project for Civil Society - aimed at enhancing the participation of civil society in Tanzania’s APRM process.

We have a Consultancy Opportunity for Language and Technical Editor✨ ⬇️ Closing date is Tuesday, 23 July 2024. Click on this link for more info and how to apply: repoa.or.tz/?jobs=senior-r…

Our inaugural flagship report, “African insights 2024: Democracy at risk – the people’s perspective,” documents the evolution of popular views on democracy and governance in Africa. Register and join us for an insightful conversation: bit.ly/3KmtSTP

Happening tomorrow⏬ REPOA's book launch - portraying tensions between socio-cultural norms, that underscore harmful traditional practices, and human rights discourses and practices in Africa, and more particularly in the Tanzanian context. Stay tuned...✨

✨We're moments away from launching our book “Women-on-Women Violence in Tanzania: Current Realities and Future Directions,” authored by our Senior Research Fellow Dr. Sr. Regina Opoku. Join us online as we unveil these fascinating findings!⏬ us06web.zoom.us/j/81126804195?…

“As we acknowledge Tanzania’s efforts and progress on closing the gender gap – it is important that women are ridded from all sorts of violence such that they too can fully participate in the economy," says Donald Mmari - our Executive Director. ⏬📔 READ repoa.or.tz/wp-content/upl…

“While the general perception is that men pioneer some practices to reinforce their authority over female bodies, the actual act is carried out by older women over the bodies of younger girls/women,” says book author, Sr. Dr. Regina Opoku REPOA.⏬📔READ repoa.or.tz/wp-content/upl…

“Violence of any form is a foundation of poverty in any society. I commend REPOA and the author for this book. I will do my best to raise and echo your findings related to this important gender study,” says Dr. Dorothy Gwajima #Tanzania #women ⏬📔 READ: repoa.or.tz/wp-content/upl…

✨Guest of Honor at our today’s book launch, Dr. Dorothy Gwajima cuts the ribbon to officially launch our new book.⏬ 📔Head over to our website to read more: repoa.or.tz/wp-content/upl…

📔Three traditional practices in Tanzania, namely: Female Genital cutting (FGC), Widow cleansing rituals, and woman-to-woman marriage are implicated in gendered violence, our new✨ REPOA book reveals. ⏬Head over to our website to read more: repoa.or.tz/wp-content/upl…

We have an opportunity for a PhD research✨ ⬇️ Closing date is Friday, 30th August 2024. Head to our website for details and how to apply: repoa.or.tz/?p=7274

Congratulations to REPOA, our national partner in Tanzania, and their team of supervisors and enumerators on successfully wrapping up the Afrobarometer Round 10 survey. Stay tuned for the key findings! #Tanzania #AfrobarometerAt25 #VoicesAfrica

📹Short video on our new book📔✨ It reveals three traditional practices in Tanzania, namely: Female Genital Cutting (FGC), Widow cleansing rituals, and woman-to-woman marriage as implicated in gendered violence. ⏬Head over to our website to read more: repoa.or.tz/wp-content/upl…

#InternationalYouthDay: Unemployment ranks No. 1 among the policy priorities of young Africans. But across 39 countries, only two in 10 youth (19%) say their government is performing well on job creation. Read more in our Pan-Africa Profile on youth: bit.ly/49D1DeV

Today, Ambassador Nicola Brennan Ambassador of Ireland to Tanzania met with REPOA Executive Director Dr. Donald Mmari to discuss Ireland’s 🇮🇪 continued support and partnership to REPOA’s work in evidence-based policy advice in national development planning and implementation in Tanzania 🇹🇿.

Jamal Msami REPOA

kafuuma.vianney ACFIM AfEONet Jamal Msami Chimuka Nachi The Electoral Commission - Uganda REPOA ACILA CDD-Ghana Government of Uganda E-HORN Transparency International Zambia National Assembly of Zambia Zambia Westminster Foundation for Democracy (WFD) NIMD Electoral Commission Of Ghana Uganda Human Rights Commission (UHRC) 💡Dr. Jamal Msami from REPOA speaks out strongly on the regulation of political financing: 🗣️''It's very easy to put up a law, the real challenge lies in building a normative and cognitive culture that supports enforcement and compliance, where we tend to fall short.'' ⚖️