Tanzania: Aggrieved Orphans 'Can Appeal'
 |
|
|||||||||
|
||||||||||
The Citizen (Dar es Salaam)
9 October 2008
Posted to the web 10 October 2008
Faraja Jube
Poor and vulnerable households which feel they qualify for assistance but excluded during implementation of the Community-Based Conditional Cash Transfer (CB-CCT) pilot programme would have an opportunity to appeal against their exclusion.
Mr. Selemani Massala, the CB-CCT pilot programme coordinator for management information service activities, said such households can file and submit their appeals and complaints to local government authorities or the management unit of the Tanzania Social Action Fund (TASAF).
However, presenting a paper during a sensitization workshop on CB-CCT pilot programme for Chamwino district municipal officers in Dodoma yesterday, Mr. Massala said exclusion from the programme is based on the extent of poverty and vulnerability of children and the elderly within a household.
"The programme targets vulnerable groups such as children of up to five years and old people aged 60 and above," he said, noting that other conditions to qualify individual beneficiaries is attendance in school and health care facilities, which doesn't apply to the disabled.
Ms. Mercy Mariki, the TASAF-TMU coordinator of training and programme operations expressed the hope that implementation of the programme would help to decrease the growing number of street children. That would increase the demand for attendance in schools and health care facilities.
The programme will apply a community-driven development approach used by social funds such as TASAF in facilitating improvement in effectiveness and efficiency of service delivery. It also focuses on building community capacities in the delivery of a range of social and economic services.
"The CD-CCT pilot programme is the first to be implemented in Tanzania, and its uniqueness from similar programmes worldwide is that it is embodied with an exit strategy that would enable its objectives to become sustainable," the coordinator maintained.
As the programme aimed at topping up poor households' efforts in meeting social and economic services, it will involve setting up microfinance schemes in 80 villages in the pilot project to enable targeted households to join small savings groups and engage in income generating activities.
The Japan Social Development Fund (JSDF) granted US$ 1.9 million for the CD-CCT pilot programme under TASAF II in Bagamoyo and Kibaha districts in Coast region and Chamwino district in Dodoma region.
Ms Euphrasia Helman, the coordinator for programme monitoring and evaluation, said the programme whose initial phase began last month would be implemented in two and a half years. It is targeted to benefit 2,000 households in 80 villages, in which 6,000 individuals would be reached, to end by 2011.
"Beneficiary households would receive cash benefits ranging from Sh12,000 to Sh36,000 every two months," she said, noting that TMU was exploring the possibility of transferring cash by mobile phone services directly to beneficiary households.
Relevant Links
She said provision of grants to vulnerable groups in rural households such as orphaned children and the elderly was aimed at helping them to access health and education services. "For a successful implementation of the programme, training would be conducted to facilitators at each level from local government authorities to village community committees," she added.
Read comments. Write your own.
|
AllAfrica aggregates and indexes content from over 125 African news organizations, plus more than 200 other sources, who are responsible for their own reporting and views. Articles and commentaries that identify allAfrica.com as the publisher are produced or commissioned by AllAfrica. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
|
| |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
|
Copyright © 2008 The Citizen. All rights reserved. Distributed by AllAfrica Global Media (allAfrica.com). To contact the copyright holder directly for corrections -- or for permission to republish or make other authorized use of this material, click here.
| |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
|
| |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
|
Make allAfrica.com your home page
|
RSS Feed
Sign up for FREE daily 'top headlines' by email >> | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
|
| |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Top | Site Guide | Who We Are | Advertising | Search | My Account | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
|
| |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Questions or Comments? Contact us. Read our Privacy Statement. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
|
| |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
