TANZANIA n = 20 Yes No Partial e) Information about procurement procedures, signed contracts? s f) Vacancy and employment procedures? s Additional Information g) The name and address, telephone number, and the working hours of the respective institution? s h) The contact details of public officials? s The Director General’s contact and hotline number i) A mechanism to request and receive a response to electronic messages and requests for information? s Email contact Total Score: 16/20 CATEGORY 2: REQUESTS FOR INFORMATION The following questions were sent to NIDA: 1. Since the national ID exercise began, how many people/Tanzanians have been issued with IDs? 2. What processes are involved in the production of the IDs (time, money and security)? 3. Is NIDA working with other agencies such as the RITA to make sure that when children are born they are registered into the database at the hospital, for instance, without wasting other resources such as time and money? 4. What is the annual budget and where is the money coming from? 5. What are the challenges involved in the production of IDs and how are they addressed? n = 20 1. Is there an official designated to take and respond to information requests? (Please state title of officials in ‘Additional Information’) Yes No Additional Information The registry unit receives requests and directs them to the Director General s 2. Did the institution reply within 21 days? (If less than 7 please state in ‘Additional Information’) s 3. Did the Institution respond to a request for information? s 4. Does the authority publish their procedures for dealing with information requests? s 5. Did the institution provide all of the information requested? (If partially please mark ‘No’, indicate in ‘Additional Information’ how much of the information requested was supplied) s 6. Did the institution provide written reasons for the refusal of information? (If information was not refused, please contact institution to find out what the policy is in this regard – if they supply written reasons for refusal mark ‘Yes’) s 7. Did the institution disclose information about its operations, budgets, structure etc. s 8. Did the authority provide information without questioning the aims and motivations of the applicant? s 9. Did the institution acknowledge your request for information within 7 days? s 10. Was the information received clear and understandable? s Not even when the researcher called both the mobile number and the landline number Total Score: 2/20 103