Africa Region Findings & Good Practice Infobriefs

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These briefs report on ongoing operational, economic, and sector work carried out by the World Bank and its member governments in the Africa Region.

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Multi-Dimensional Results Measurement in CDD Projects : Experiences from the Malawi, Tanzania, and Uganda Social Action Funds

(World Bank, Washington, DC, 2007-12) Pidatala, Krishna ; Lenneiye, Nginya Mungai

In the last decade, Malawi, Tanzania, and Uganda have used the Community-Driven Development (CDD) approach to implement projects that exhibit multi-sectoral linkages, complex institutional structures and implementation processes, creative tension between the supply and demand sides, and convergence at the Local Government Authority (LGA) level in environments compounded by the pace of decentralization. The projects have broadened the issue of results focus from the measurement of a few input-output indicators to include intermediate outcomes (which measure beneficiaries potentially reached by outputs produced by the projects). In the process, these projects have been able to scale up from 'isolated boutique-type projects' to a mass production of outputs through participatory decision-making, local capacity development, and community control of resources. At the national level, the projects have contributed to: (a) poverty reduction, (b) improved social welfare, and (c) improved transparency and accountability.
The Tanzania Second Social Action Fund (TASAF II) : Knowledge Sharing and Learning for Better Delivery of Results

(World Bank, Washington, DC, 2007-11) Ida , Manjalo

This report is currently implementing the second phase of the Tanzania Social Action Fund, known as TASAF II. The main objective of TASAF II is to empower communities to access opportunities so that they can request, implement, and monitor sub-projects that contribute to improved livelihoods that are linked to indicator targets of the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) as stipulated in the National Strategy for Growth and Reduction of Poverty, popularly known by its Kiswahili acronym MKUKUTA. One major challenge of delivering TASAF II is its expanded mandate and full mainstreaming into local government authorities (LGA) operations. LGAs had to be provided with the opportunity to internalize an objective assessment achievements and challenges observed during the implementation of TASAF I, through the sub-project cycle. This would provide opportunity for the joining LGAs to learn from the experiences of TASAF I, thus create space and environment for efficient and cost-effective delivery of TASAF II.
The Tanzania Social Action Fund (TASAF) : Owning the Process of Measuring Impact and Achieving Results

(World Bank, Washington, DC, 2006-07) Lenneiye, N.M.

The Tanzania Social Action Fund (TASAF) is now in its second phase, covering the period 2005-2009. It is focused on giving more voice to citizens at both community and lowest local government levels - village councils. While retaining direct community financing as a key empowering mechanism, it is being implemented through Local Government Authorities. Target beneficiaries are: i) communities with inadequate access to social services; ii) households with able-bodied adults suffering from food insecurity; and iii) individuals living in poor households affected by acute shocks (like HIV/AIDS). These three beneficiary groups will access resources from a National Village Fund using procedures that build on the lessons learned regarding accountability, incomes poverty, and improving impact links.
Tanzania - The Health and Nutrition Project

(World Bank, Washington, DC, 2001-09) Mohan, P.C.

The objectives of the Health and Nutrition Project were to raise the quality, coverage, and effectiveness of family planning, nutrition, and basic health services through the provision of support to critical and strategic elements of the Health, Nutrition and Population (HNP) sector. This was the first International Development Association (IDA)-financed health project in Tanzania. The project suffered from poor quality at entry, with ambitious objectives, complex design, and implementation arrangements, and ill-considered covenants and cross-conditionality's between different implementing agencies. Combined with the government's weak ownership at the outset and poor project management, project performance during the first three years was very poor. A mid-term review in 1994, and subsequent project restructuring in 1996, resulted in clearer project direction, more feasible work plans and more streamlined implementation. By the end of the project, the government assumed full ownership, and planned activities were completed with project objectives largely achieved. Moreover, the project initiated some of the key reform agenda, paving the way for a multi- donor supported health sector reform program which the follow-on IDA credit is supporting. This note summarizes the impact on the ground and lessons learned.
Tanzania - Community Education

( 2001-04) Markov, Andrei

"Mfuko wa Elimu Msingi" - or the Community Education Fund (CEF) - was started in 1995. It was extended as one of the two key components under the Human Resources Development Project (HRDP) launched in 1997. The HRDP is a pilot project undertaken by the Government of Tanzania and financed by a $20.9 million World Bank IDA credit. It is intended to pilot solutions to some of the key problems of access and quality that characterize the Tanzania education system. What was first regarded with skepticism has now expanded four times beyond its original target and is emerging as a viable solution to the issues of funding, improving primary education and increasing community involvement.