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Projects:

• Team Lead: Data Collection in the Collaborative Research work on “Optimal Park Pricing of National Parks: Case Study of Serengeti, Maasai Mara and Kruger National Parks”.  Data Collection was done in in Serengeti in March, 2013. The same was also done in Maasai Mara and Kruger National Parks. Main task was leading preparation for the field work, recruitment and training of the enumerators, testing of the data collection instruments and field work in the Serengeti National Park and Kruger National Park.
• Local Consultant on External Review and Evaluation of the Swedish Development and Cooperation Support to the Climate Parliament: The main goal of the Evaluation work was to evaluate the SDC support to the Climate Parliamentarians in taking action to mitigate climate change with a focus on the promotion of renewable energy resources and develop country case studies for Morocco, China, India and Tanzania. Main tasks included: map the electricity sector in Tanzania and collect data on key impact, outcome and output indicators; arrange interviews with key stakeholders in Dar es Salaam and Dodoma (Parliamentarians); participate in the field mission partaking actively in the interviews; follow up any outstanding issues after the field mission and review the country case study report
• Team member: Consultancy on Developing the Biofuel Policy Framework for Tanzania. Assignment on this was to develop and establish the socio economic conditions for the policy. Data was collection from the biofuels growers, producers and related organizations.
• Field Manager, Research Study on the Small Hydropower Projects in the Southern Highlands Tanzania. Organised the field work; recruitment and training of enumerators, field logistics, data collection, coding, entry and preliminary analysis. The Team constitute 2 Consultants, One Team, One Supervisors and 8 Enumerators.
• Team Lead: Data Collection in the Collaborative Research work on “Coexistence of Wildlife and Human in the Ngorongoro Conservation Area (NCA): Exploring the Socioeconomic aspects and the Possibilities for the Replication of the ‘Ngorongoro Model’ in Tanzania. Data Collection was done in all the 25 Villages in the NCA.
• Team Member, Cost benefit Analysis of the Julius Nyerere Hydro Power Project (JNHHP) contracted by TANESCO as part of the consultancy services for additional studies to update ESIA and SESA at JNHHP, Lost 2, Cost Benefit Analysis
• Team Lead: Final Evaluation of the Ikondo Energy Project in Njombe. Ikondo Energy Project is funded by CEFA (CEFA – Comitato Europeo per la Formazione e l’Agricoltura ONLU ) an Italian based NGOs and MVC (Matembwe Village Company Ltd) and it deals with electricity generation and distribution in Ikondo Ward, Njombe District in Njombe Region. The Villages covers Ikondo, Isoliwaya, Kanikelele, Nyave, Uheni, Kitole and Ukalawa
• Consultant: Readness for Investment in Sustainable Energy (RISE) Project in Tanzania. The objective of RISE is to establish global indicators across the three focus areas of the Sustainable Energy for All (SE4ALL) initiative: Energy Access, Energy Efficiency, and Renewable Energy. RISE measured country performances on the indicators, both against each other and over time to monitor progress and to help the climte for private sector investments. RISE will contribute to domestic policy debate by providing policy makers with a global reference to identify what institutional, regulatory and legislative systems support investments in sustainable energy. The RISE pilot report covered 17 developed and developing countries. More project information  is available here: http://rise.worldbank.org
• Consultant on Evaluation of the Impact of the Rural Electrification in Selected Villages in Mwanza, Shinyanga and Tabora, contracted by JUMEME. JUMEME is a private power developer company aiming to generate and distribute electricity to selected remote villages which are not accessible to the National Grid by TANESCO or in the REA rural electrification project. The baseline includes the ex ante survey and the ex post survey in selected ten (10) villages in three (3) District. The survey will be administered to Households, Business Enterprises, Public Institutions (Schools and Health facilities) and to communities (Village Administration). The ex ante is scheduled July to August, 2016 and ex post October – November, 2017.
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• Researcher: Final Evaluation for the AfDB Sponsored Projects on Maternal and Child health Care in Mtwara, Tabora, Mara, Unguja and Pemba. Tasks included review of the evaluation instruments, field work planning, recruitment and training of enumerators, data entry and cleaning and preliminary analysis and report writing.
  • Researcher: Value Chain Analysis of the Logistics Subsector in Tanzania contracted by REPOA. The main objective of the assignment is to provide assessment of trade and transport facilitation readiness in Tanzania. In addition, the assignment also intends to identify specific bottlenecks on the logistics chain including institutional, policy, regulatory and implementation frameworks as well as operational challenges that impede the seamless flow of goods on the logistics chain in Tanzania (December 2020 to May 2019
  • Team Lead, Research study on Ngorongoro Conservation Area (NCA), titled Maasai Household and Village Socioeconomic Status and Decisions in Ngorongoro Conservation Area. Tasks involved preparation of the data collection instruments, interpretation of the instrument into Kiswahili and Maasai, recruitment of enumerators and training, monitoring the data collection in all the 25 villages of Ngorongoro, data entry and analysis and preliminary report writing.
  • Local Researcher, on Evidence Based Research on the Evaluation of the Sustainability of Budget Financing on Large Scale Infrastructure Projects in Tanzania 2010 to 2019, contracted by REPOA under the auspices of Uongozi Institute. The Research involved identifying and conduct an in-depth analysis of five (5) projects under five (5) Ministries: Education, Health, Water, Energy and Works, Communication and Transport. Period of Study December, 2019 to April, 2020.
  • Senior Advisor, Financing Component of Public Sector Systems Strengthening Project (PS3); A USAID funded project in Tanzania: The main goal of the project is to provide technical assistance to the Government of Tanzania to strengthen public sector systems in support of the delivery, quality, and use of public services, particularly for underserved populations. The project covers thirteen (13) regions namely: Kagera, Kigoma, Lindi, Mara, Mbeya, Morogoro, Mtwara, Mwanza, Njombe, Rukwa and Shinyanga and all the ninety-seven (97) Local Government Authorities (LGAs) in the above regions. The project has two Phases, Phase I covering two LGAs for each region and Phase II covering the remaining LGAs.
  • Principal Investigator, Final Evaluation of ORIO Projects – Rehabilitation of Kilimanjaro International Airport in Tanzania (ORI10/TZ/21) contracted by Erasmus Mundi University – Rotterdam and the Government of Netherlands. The main tasks included review of relevant project documents, assist establishing contact with relevant stakeholders, preparation of field visits, conduct interviews with relevant stakeholders in Tanzania, contribute to the elaboration of the study case report and respond to feedback of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs on the draft Evaluation Report (Time Period: July – November, 2019)
  • Team Member: Evidence Based Research and Policy Review on Oil and Natural Gas Sectors in Tanzania contracted by WWF
  • Team Member for the Endline Evaluation of the FCS Strategic Plan 2025 – 2020 contracted by SIDA through the NIRAs Tanzania using OECD/DAC Evaluation Criteria. Tasks involved preparation and testing of the evaluation matrix questions, administration of the instrument for data collection, data analysis and report writing. This evaluation was backward looking in terms of assessing achievements, and forward looking in terms of informing the FCS’ next strategic plan. The Evaluation team prepared an evaluation matrix in which the evaluation questions listed in TOR are structured according to the evaluation criteria of relevance, coherence and coordination, efficiency, effectiveness, impact and sustainability, as well as cross cutting issues.
  • Interviewer and Team Member on the Study on Public Facility Management and Governance for the nine (9) Local Government Authorities, covering 72 facilities (Health Centres, Primary Schools and Secondary Schools and Dispensaries) on health and education sector. USAID through PS3 project has assisted the government of Tanzania to implement a package of interventions that affect how health facilities and schools are managed and governed.
  • Trainer on Monitoring and Evaluation to the Civil Society Organisation (CSO) contracted by the Foundation for Civil Society
  • Team Member: Baseline Survey and Capacity Need Assessments for Strengthening the Role of CSOs in Delivering Sustainable Energy Solutions in Tanzania
  • Field Manager on the Study: Impact Evaluation of the Rural Water and Sanitation Program in Tanzania sponsored by the African Development Bank: Organized recruitment of enumerators and supervisors, training of enumerators and supervisors, pilot test of the instruments, field logistics, coding, data entry and preliminary analysis. The team constitute 38 enumerators, six supervisors, four deputy field managers and 12 data entry agents.
  • Local Consultant, Efficiency Gains in Infrastructure Investments Projects (Roads Construction and Road Network) in Tanzania, contracted by the World Bank and submitted required reports on Measuring the Value for Money (VfM) for Transport Sector in Tanzania in June – October, 2016.
  • Local Consultant: Economic Analysis of State Owned Enterprises in Tanzania, hired by the World Bank. Main role to conduct economic analysis of 265 SOEs for three financial years.
  • Team Member: Research on Public Expenditure Track Study (PETS) organized by Research on Poverty Alleviation (REPOA). The Assignment was to assess the public spending on the primary education under the Primary Education Development Program initiated by the Government in 2001.
  • Local Consultant: Project Investment Portfolio for Tanzania: I was contracted by World Bank. Tasks were Data Collection on Project Investment Portfolio in Tanzania covering interactions between sector ministries and the Treasury, special purpose funds and the Treasury as well as parastatals and the treasury. 
  • Local Consultant: Fiscal Cost of Infrastructure Provision: in Tanzania Creating a Baseline. I was contracted by World Bank. Tasks were Data Collection on baseline survey, documenting the budgeting process followed in Tanzania covering interactions between central ministries. 
  • Researcher & Instructor: The Microfinance Games on Assessing the Demand for Health Insurance in microcredit Groups; a joint work between the Department of Economics University of Dar es Salaam and Stichting Amsterdam Institute for International  Development. The games were played with over 500 clients with Tujijenge Afrika in Dar es Salaam Tanzania.
  • Researcher: The Economic, social and financial Implication of Fertilizer Taxes in Tanzania; a survey on farmers and traders of inorganic fertilizers in three regions in Tanzania, namely Ruvuma, Iringa and Kilimanjaro,  as well as Fertilizer Importers and Regulatory bodies in Dar es Salaam contracted  and work with International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI).
  • Research Team Member: Manyara Region Value Chain Development Project: Livestock and Sunflower Subsectors conducting baseline survey and training needs assessments undertaken by SIDO Tanzania and the University of Dar es Salam, Department of Economics. The Value chain was undertaken for Livestock Keepers; Sunflower farmers; Traders and Processors of sunflower and livestock products and to the Officials. Report has been written and submitted.
  • Team Member: Enforcement, Reserve Management, Fisheries and Marine Protected Areas in Mtwara and Coast Regions. Others were Prof. Albers and Dr. Robinson. Report has been written and submitted and several papers on the pipeline.
  • Trainer on Monitoring and Evaluation to the Civil Society Organisation (CSO) contracted by the Foundation for Civil Society
  • Trainer: Training on Civil Servants: Poverty Policy Analysis in Tanzania for the Middle Level Civil Servants in October 2005. This training manual was prepared before the MKUKUTA document was promulgated and has to be reviewed to include the elements from MKUKUTA (National Strategy for Growth and Reduction of Poverty in Tanzania

Publications:

1. Iremout, Martin; Ndanshau, Michael, Kirama, Stephen (2023) An Empirical Investigation of the Effect of Manager’s Level of Education on Labour Productivity in the Manufacturing Sector in Uganda: 2006 – 2013 in the Tanzanian Economic Review, Vol. 13 No. 1, June, 2023, published by School of Economics, University of Dar es Salaam
2. Mtenga, Erica, Melesi, Tensay, Lokina, Razack & Kirama, Stephen (2019) Power Outages, Productivity Cost and Willingness to Pay for Reliable Electricity, Link Power Outages, Productivity Cost and Willingness To Pay (WTP) for Reliable Electricity Supply | EfD - Initiative (efdinitiative.org)
3. Sambuo, Damian; Kitala, Malamsha, Kirama, Stephen (2020) “Two Stage Hedonic Price Analysis of Fish Attributes around Lake Victoria, Tanzania; in East African Journal of Social and Applied Sciences (EAJ-SAS; Vol. 2, No. 2 published by Moshi Co operative University. Link: http://mocu.ac.tz/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/PAPER-18_SAMBUO_TWO-STAGE-HEDONIC-PRICE-ANALYSIS-OF-FISH-ATTRIBUTES-AROUND-LAKE-VICTORIA-TANZANIA.pdf
4. Kirama, Stephen L. (2021) “Public Social Spending and Poverty in Tanzania: A Benefit Incidence Analysis” in Tanzanian Economic Review; Vol 21:1, Jan-June, 2020 accessed through: View of Public Social Spending and Poverty in Tanzania: A Benefit Incidence Analysis (udsm.ac.tz)
5. Mataba, Lucas; Aikaeli, Jehovaness; Kirama, Stephen (2017) “The Link Between Cost Efficiency and Non-Performing Loans of Community Banks in Tanzania” in Tanzania Economic Review, Department of Economics, University of Dar es Salaam ISNN 0856-3373 http://journals.udsm.ac.tz/index.php/ter/article/view/2471
6. Sambuo, Damian; Kirama, Stephen; Kitala, Malamsha (2018) “Fish Price Determination Around Lake Victoria, Tanzania: Analysis of Factors Affecting Fish Landing Price”, in Global Business Review DOI: 10.1177/0972150917811509 https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/0972150917811509
7. Kirama, Stephen, Kemp, Alex, Taylor Rose (2018) “Assessment of Local Content and Local Community Participation in the Gas Discoveries Sites in Tanzania”, Book Chapter in Scientific, Legal and Socioeconomic Aspects of Oil and Gas in Tanzania pg 96 – 110 ISBN: 9789976535518, published by TUKI University of Dar es Salaam
8. Kahyarara, Godius and Kirama, Stephen (2016) “A Strategic Approach to Education and Skills Growth: Quantity, Quality, Costs and Developmental Dividents” in Rwegasira, D; Mbelle, A and Aikaeli, J Ed. The Economy of Mainland Tanzania into the 20002: Productivity, Human Capital, and Other Leading Issues, Dar es Salaam University Press ISBNN 978 9976 60 5921, pgs. 78 – 99
9. Kirama, Stephen (2016) “Growth and Redistribution Components of Changes in Poverty Measures: Household Budget Survey Analysis 200/01 and 2007”, in Tanzania Economic Review (TER) Vol. 6:1&2, pg. 80 – 102 http://journals.udsm.ac.tz/index.php/ter/article/view/1053
10. Albers, J., Preonas, L. Madrigal, R. Robinson, E.J.Z, Kirama, S., Lokina R.B, Turpie, J and Alpizar, F.  (2015) “Marine Protected Areas in Artisanal Fisheries: A Spatial bio-economic model based on observation in Costa Rica and Tanzania”, in Environment for Development Discussion Papers Series 15 – 16  http://www.efdinitiative.org/publications/marine-protected-p...
11. Karamagi, I.J., I.M. Pantaleo, and S.L. Kirama (2010). “Admission Qualifications and Performance in Tertiary Education: A Case of Undergraduate Programmes at the University of Dar es Salaam”, Tanzanian Economic Trends, Vol. 21 No.1, 2010: 93-114.
12. Pantaleo, I.M., I.J. Karamagi and S.L. Kirama (2011). “The Distribution of Education Resources among A-Level Secondary Schools in Tanzania”, in G. Kahyarara, L. Lokina and J. Mduma Ed. Efficacy of Tanzanian Higher Education: Productivity, Efficiency and Equity, Dar es Salaam: Dar es Salaam University Press.
13. Osoro, Otieno; Kirama, Stephen; Vermeulen Patrick (2014) “Factors Affecting Engagement and Commercialization Of Innovation Activities of Firms in Tanzania”, Tanzania Economic Review (TER) Vol. 14, Nos 1&2; 2014
14. Hepelwa A.; Kirama, S. and Dauda M (2014) “Baseline Survey and Capacity Need Assessments for strengthening the role of CSOs in delivering sustainable energy solutions in Tanzania” WWF Research Report
15. Hepelwa A.; Kirama, S. and Dauda M (2014) “Evidence Based Research and Policy Review on Oil and Natural Gas Sector in Tanzania” WWF Research Report
16. Kirama, Stephen L. (2012) “Growth and Redistribution Components of Changes in Poverty Measures: A Decomposition Analysis with Application to Household Budget surveys’ Data in Tanzania”, presented at Inclusive Growth Conference: Measurement, Causes and Consequences, in UNU-WIDER, Finland. (see at youtube.com/watch? v=dcFM_ubWzvg)
17. Todd, B.; Kirama, S; and Selejio O. (2011) “The Supply of inorganic fertilizers to smallholder farmers in Tanzania: Evidence for Fertilizer Policy Development”; A Research Report
18. Robinson E.; Albers J; Kirama, S. (2015) “The Role of Incentives for Sustainable Implementation of Marine Protected Areas: An Example from Tanzania” in Special Issue of the Journal of Sustainable Society, Vol 6:1&2, pg 28-46.  DOI: 10.1504/IJSSOC.2014.057888
19. Kirama, Stephen L, (2004), “Determinants of Poverty in Tanzania: Household Budget Survey Analysis 2000/01”, (unpublished) MA. Economics Dissertation, University of Dar es Salaam, Tanzania.
20. Thomas Sterner, Yonas Alem, Francisco Alpízar, Cyndi Spindell Berck, Carlos Alberto Chavez Rebolledo, Johane Dikgang, Stephen Kirama, Gunnar Köhlin, Jane Mariara-Kabubo, Alemu Mekonnen and Jintao Xu (2014). The Environment for Development Initiative: lessons learned in research, academic capacity building and policy intervention to manage resources for sustainable growth. Environment and Development Economics, 19, pp 367-391 DOI:

http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/S1355770X1400014X (About DOI), Published online: 2014