This website broadly documents and covers aspects of in-
and outputs of Danida’s Health Sector Programme Support experience in
Tanzania. By browsing the pages the reader will not only get an overview of
the activities, but can also participate in the advancement of the programme
by submitting reactions by e-mail.
The health sector in Tanzania is experiencing a period of radical changes
in the way it has operated since independence. Not only affect the reforms
the way health services are delivered, other concurrent changes in the public
sector, like the Local Government & Civil Service Reforms, are having
a similar if not more profound effect.
From the start Danida has been a partner to this process of change. It has
shifted its focus from being project oriented to sector support, i.e. support
based on in partnership developed sector wide strategies and plans instead
of acting upon isolated/vertical priorities. The sector concept has taken
root among an increasing number of development partners, resulting in a SWAp
(Sector Wide Approach).
As in many other Sub Saharan countries, the health situation in Tanzania is
under severe pressure. Public services are grossly underfinanced; disease
patterns are shifting causing serious impact on the economic fabric of society
and thus on the patterns of private financing of health services, and medical
and social sciences are developing at a fast rate.
Technology has enabled fast dissemination of research and thus access to "evidence
based" practices. To ensure high professional standards continuous education
and the ability to access information is imperative.
In this fluent situation it is often difficult to oversee the impact of certain
(changes in) national policies and strategies to their full extent.
The determination to involve clients in the management of services potentially
opens a rich source of ideas for the improvement of the quality and practical
delivery of services. In this spirit the government of Tanzania and Denmark
decided in their bilateral agreement for the health sector to incorporate
the element of ‘evidence based’ in intervention formulation.
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