Here is the view from our office of only a of the University campus. What an amazing week! It seems impossible that we have been on site at UDOM for 5 days. We have accomplished alot. When I look at our project plan we still have miles to go....lol! thankfully we are a team of 10 and everyone brings great skills to the table so am confident we will get there.
As each day goes by for our MIS/SME team we come away feeling that all our days on site have been very productive (and we sprinkle a litte fun in there too). When I think of back to the tour and coming away feeling in awe and (yes, admittedly) a little fear of what we were about to embark on and see where we are now I feel very good about it. We have spent the week getting to know our UDOM collegues, working directly with 3 Tutorial Assisstants (Masoud Masoud or Double Masoud as I like to call him, Tabu Kondo & Frederick Chali), interviewing with Finance/Accounting, Admissions, Library (more next week with HR & Procurement), speaking with Justinian and finding out more and more about how the University runs. We are finding that it is mainly a paper based system but each department is very well aware of where their troubles are and want to make some improvements. The Tanzanians have been incredibly kind and are very willing to spend time with us.
Today is a really exciting day because our sub team is going to visit an all girls secondary schoool to see what type of vision is possible to start linking the full education system in Tz...a very daunting task but the will of these people is inspiring so anything is possible!
off to work now....
As each day goes by for our MIS/SME team we come away feeling that all our days on site have been very productive (and we sprinkle a litte fun in there too). When I think of back to the tour and coming away feeling in awe and (yes, admittedly) a little fear of what we were about to embark on and see where we are now I feel very good about it. We have spent the week getting to know our UDOM collegues, working directly with 3 Tutorial Assisstants (Masoud Masoud or Double Masoud as I like to call him, Tabu Kondo & Frederick Chali), interviewing with Finance/Accounting, Admissions, Library (more next week with HR & Procurement), speaking with Justinian and finding out more and more about how the University runs. We are finding that it is mainly a paper based system but each department is very well aware of where their troubles are and want to make some improvements. The Tanzanians have been incredibly kind and are very willing to spend time with us.
Today is a really exciting day because our sub team is going to visit an all girls secondary schoool to see what type of vision is possible to start linking the full education system in Tz...a very daunting task but the will of these people is inspiring so anything is possible!
off to work now....
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