Dr. Dorcas Ng’wandu

Mkapa Legacy Leadership Award, which focus on the transformative and adaptive leadership practices that led the team in addressing the challenges affecting the use, access, and/or provision of quality of health services, and which has brought positive sustainable results to the community.

This award is being offered for the first time through the Mkapa Legacy Initiative to recognize leadership excellence, inspire employee innovation, foster a culture of achievement and motivation.

The evaluation process for leadership awards considered the following criteria: leadership effectiveness, innovation, communication and collaboration with others, ethical practices, strategic vision, and stakeholder engagement that influenced RMNCAH performance in Zanzibar.

For Tanzania mainland the committee focused on the similar criteria on the performance of preparing and presenting best council comprehensive health plan, and health facility plans.