{"id":14754,"date":"2017-10-22T12:59:07","date_gmt":"2017-10-22T12:59:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/?p=14754"},"modified":"2017-10-23T13:05:44","modified_gmt":"2017-10-23T13:05:44","slug":"tanzania-to-get-more-out-of-aid-and-investment-developing-countries-need-to-focus-on-data-collection","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/tanzania-to-get-more-out-of-aid-and-investment-developing-countries-need-to-focus-on-data-collection\/","title":{"rendered":"Tanzania: To get more out of aid and investment, developing countries need to focus on data collection"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Back in 2013, Tanzania\u2019s health authorities\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/qz.com\/524909\/in-tanzania-you-can-now-get-your-birth-certificate-by-mobile-phone\/\">trialled a program<\/a>\u00a0that allowed parents to register to receive birth certificates for newborns via their mobile phones. The program,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/qz.com\/942676\/tanzania-is-ramping-up-its-mobile-phone-birth-certificates-to-end-invisible-babies\/\">ramped up earlier this year<\/a>, established a simple process whereby health workers send an SMS with a baby\u2019s name, gender, date of birth, and family details to a central database that is managed by a state agency in real time.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/qz.com\/1108694\/oecd-says-ethiopia-uganda-south-africa-and-sri-lanka-are-making-strides-in-data-collection\/\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Back in 2013, Tanzania\u2019s health authorities\u00a0trialled a program\u00a0that allowed parents to register to receive birth certificates for newborns via their mobile phones. The program,\u00a0ramped up earlier this year, established a simple process whereby health workers send an SMS with a baby\u2019s name, gender, date of birth, and family details to a central database that is [&hellip;]","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14754","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","region-east-africa","region-tanzania","type-news-articles","item-year-631","item-theme-birth-registration","item-theme-id-documents-and-passports","item-theme-identity-documents"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14754","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14754"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14754\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14755,"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14754\/revisions\/14755"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14754"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14754"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14754"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}