The use of social media in organizational activities has been increasing in all parts of the world including Tanzania both for individual communication and for organizational information sharing with stakeholders. In most cases, organizations including Civil Society Organizations have become users of social media aiming at improving organizational performance. The aim of this study was to assess the role of social media in organizational performance at Policy Forum and selected nine member organizations under Policy Forum.

Policy Forum was among representatives of Civil Soceity Organisations from five countries were invited by the International Budget Partnership (IBP) in February 2010 to deliberate on ConstituencyDevelopment Funds (CDFs), a decentralized funding scheme in which the central government transfers funds to each constituency for local development projects.

Various stakeholders met at the Poverty Policy Week, a three-day forum popularly known as PPW to discuss the country’s development progress. This year, the theme was “Empowering of the Poor is Fundamental in Speeding/Facilitating/Enhancing Economic Growth  and Sustainable Development”.

Two weeks before U.S. President George W. Bush hosts an economic summit to address the six-week-old financial crisis that has wreaked havoc on the world's capital and stock markets, a coalition of nearly 600 non-governmental organisations (NGOs) from 88 countries is calling for a "fundamental and far-reaching transformation on the international financial and economic system."

Over the past decade, civil society organizations (CSOs) in more than 60 countries have initiated activities to analyze their governments’ budgets. Initially, CSOs specialized in budget analysis and advocacy to influence national budget policy. However, as a broader range of CSOs undertake budget work, the scope of this work has expanded to include activities throughout the budget process, including budget implementation and assessing the impact of expenditures. 

Policy Forum’s planned collaboration with Office of Parliament for the year 2008 commenced this month with a series of sessions with Members of Parliament, parliamentary staff and members of civil society organisations.