Joint External Evaluation of the Health Sector in Tanzania: Draft ...

Acknowledgements by the Evaluation Team
The evaluation team would like to express its appreciation for all those whose work and
cooperation contributed to our ability to carry out this evaluation. From a governance and
guidance point of view, the members of the Evaluation Management Group helped to keep
the work on-track and to ensure that the evaluation provided high quality products to the
Steering Committee and the Sub-Committee of the Steering Committee, so that decisions
could be made in a timely way and the evaluation could proceed as expected and required.
In Tanzania, the evaluation team received important assistance and needed cooperation
from both the Government of Tanzania and the representatives of Development Partners.
In particular the staff of the Health Sector Reform Secretariat of the Ministry of Health and
Social Welfare were indispensable in providing information and in arranging access as well
as in assisting the evaluation team with logistical arrangements for data collection work in
the field. Similarly, the Secretariat of the Development Partners Group for Health and the
members of the coordinating Troika provided critical support to the evaluation. The Dar es
Salaam office of the Agha Khan Development Network also provided strong support to
the evaluation, especially in organizing and carrying out important workshops and
consultations.
The evaluation team also acknowledges the support and cooperation of health sector staff
at regional and council level, including members of Regional and Council Health
Management Teams and the staff of hospitals and primary health facilities who tolerated
lengthy interruptions to their working days and provided a rich body of evaluation
information for the use of the team. The staff of research agencies, non-government
organizations, faith based organizations and private service providers also shared valuable
insights and made themselves available whenever asked.
Finally, it is most important to acknowledge the contribution of the many community
members, men and women, users and non-users of the health facilities visited by the
evaluation, especially those who took part in focus group discussions. They provided the
evaluation with an important reality check and helped to put all other forms of evaluation
data in context. If the evaluation is to be judged a success it will be for contributing to
better health services for these and other community members in the future.
As always, while all these groups and individuals have contributed to the evaluation, any
errors or omissions remain the responsibility of the evaluation team.
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