Cresencia Masawe

Name
Cresencia Masawe

Academic Rank
Senior Lecturer

Department
History, Political Science and Development Studies

Biography

Biography

Dr. Cresencia A Masawe is senior Lecturer and Development specialist with over
ten years of experience in teaching researching on gender, health and development related matters. Also, she is working as the Coordinator of the Gender Research Centre (GRC) at Dar es Salaam University College of Education. She has a strong technical skills and experience working with diverse teams in complex and multi-partner funded programme. Working under GRC, has equipped me with extensive experience in gender equality, gender mainstreaming and integration, gender capacity building, delivery of gender interventions program and development related matters. She has authored several publications in peer reviewed both national and international journals.

Contacts

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Email Address
crissmasawe@gmail.com

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Research Interest

Research Interest
Public Health, Development Studies

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Projects

Projects

AFYA PAMOJA - Engaging non-state providers towards Universal Health Coverage funded by Alliance World Health WHO 2015-2017.

Trends and causes of maternal socioeconomic inequalities in healthcare utilization in Tanzania funded by University of Dar es Salaam- 2019/2020

Tanzanian Youth in the Digital Age: The Bitter- Sweet-funded by University of Dar es Salaam- 2019/2020.

Sustainable Plastic Attitudes to benefit Communities and their Environments (SPACES)-funded by NERC 2020-2024

Strengthening social accountability for improving health system in Tanzania: how can health facility governing committees fulfil their role? 2022-2024 –REACH Tanzania.

Strengthening stakeholder’s participation in the implementation of the primary school feeding program in Tanzania (20M); UDSM Research Grant 2023-2024.

Experience and Perception of Sexual Harassment among university Students (15M); UDSM Research Grant 2023-2024.

Parenting in the Digital age: Experiences from Tanzania (20M); UDSM Research grant 2023-2024.

Publications

Publications

1. Masawe, A. Cresencia (2017). Priority-setting for Reproductive Health Services at the Council Level in the Context of Health Sector Reforms in Tanzania: Journal of Education, Humanities and Sciences, Volume 6 No. 1, 47–65

2. Stephen Maluka, Dereck Chitama, Esther Dungumaro, Cresencia Masawe, Krishna Rao and Zubin Shroff (2018) Contracting-out primary health care services in Tanzania towards UHC: how policy processes and context influence policy design and implementation. International Journal for Equity in Health (2018) 17:118

3. Masawe, A. Cresencia (2018). Factors associated with challenges of implementing health sector decentralization policy in Bahi District Council in Tanzania. Journal of African Institute of Public Health (JAIPH). Volume 1 No1, 2018: 7-18

Masawe, A. Cresencia, Mcharo G, Evaline and Baltazary, Gaspar. Women’s Autonomy in Decision Making on their Own Health Care in Tanzania. Journal of Education, Humanities and Sciences, Volume 8. No. 2 2019, 18-33.

Abel Alfred Kinyondo, Magashi Joseph Ntegwa & Cresencia Apolinary Masawe (2022). Socio-economic Inequality in Maternal Healthcare Services: The Case of Tanzania AJER, Volume 10 (1), 2022 page 254-285.

Magashi J. Ntegwa and Cresencia A. Masawe (2022). A Decomposition Analysis of Inequality in Child Malnutrition in Tanzania: The African Review. Online Publication Date: 21 Jul 2022 page 1-23.

San Sebastian, M., Maluka, S., Kamuzora, P., Kapologwe, N. A., Kigume, R., Masawe, C. & Hurtig, A. K. 2023. Role of health facility governing committees in strengthening social accountability to improve the health system in Tanzania: protocol for a participatory action research study. BMJ Open, 13, e067953.

Cresencia A. Masawe, Deodatus Patrick Shayo and Monica Sebastian Kauky (2025). Gender Equality, Financial Inclusion and Resilience in Urban Areas: Evidence from the 2022 Tanzania Demographic and Health Survey (TDHS) available:https://sustainablecities.aru.ac.tz/publications conference-proceedings

Sarah Ezekiel Kisanga and Cresencia A. Masawe (2025). Becoming Active Researchers as Women in Tanzania’s Higher Education Institutions: What Does it Take? London Routledge. Fourth coming

Cresencia A. Masawe and Sarah Ezekiel Kisanga (2025). Reclaiming Communal Values: Leveraging Ubuntu Principles and Values to Address Teenage Pregnancy in Tanzania. London Routledge. Fourth coming