UNDP in Tanzania

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In Tanzania, UNDP as an impartial and trusted partner of Government is uniquely positioned to influence the outcomes of a myriad of challenging, but necessary reforms designed to promote broadbased pro-poor economic growth with prospects for significant and sustained impact on poverty reduction. As an impartial broker and leveraging on its convening power, UNDP also helps facilitate the views of civil society and the private sector and plays a crucial role in aid coordination to promote increased aid effectiveness.

In recognition of the need for effective development management for poverty reduction, UNDP Tanzania continually provides policy advisory support at the ‘up-stream’ policy level while maintaining catalytic support at ‘grassroot’ community level. UNDP’s direct support at pilot ‘downstream’ community level interventions serves to inform its advisory support provided at the upstream policy level. UNDP’s Programme in Tanzania aims to combine the best aspects of both its up-stream policy advice and grassroots support to the poorest communities to promote synergies and maximize the impact of its development assistance to the Tanzanian people.

As the UN’s development arm, UNDP is regarded as a trusted partner and impartial facilitator by local stakeholders, including Government, civil society, local communities, the private sector and other development partners. This forms the basis for UNDP’s comparative advantage in strengthening national capacity to both ‘own’ and ‘lead’ the development agenda.

The Government’s Poverty Reduction Strategy (PRS) identifies poverty reduction as the overarching national objective for the Mainland while the Zanzibar Poverty Reduction Plan (ZPRP) does the same for Zanzibar. Priority PRS sectors and thematic areas have been identified, including health, education, water, agriculture, rural roads, governance and HIV/AIDS. The PRS is supported by a core reform programme that is designed to modernize public service delivery, strengthen financial and legal sectors and to promote the decentralization of public service provision to district level.

The specific focus of UNDP’s work in Tanzania (both Mainland and Zanzibar) is identified through a process of consultation with national stakeholders as well as with reference to its global mandate and comparative advantages in Tanzania. UNDP’s current programme in Tanzania focuses on four practice areas:

HIV/AIDS, Gender and Information, Communication Technology (ICT) are mainstreamed across all of these four practice areas.

The consultative framework, which informs UNDP’s programme in Tanzania, is the Country Cooperation Framework (2002-06). This document is based on national policies and processes, chiefly the PRS but also the Tanzania Assistance Strategy (TAS), as well as areas identified for United Nations support through the United Nations Development Assistance Framework (UNDAF).

In 2003, UNDP delivered a programme of approximately US$ 11 million of which about 60% comprises UNDP core resources. Over the short-term, the country office intends to increase its delivery to approximately US$ 20 million per annum, one-third of which will be core resources from UNDP with the remainder mobilized as cost-sharing contributions from other development partners or co-financing contributions from mechanisms such as the Global Environment Facility (GEF).

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