How Can Social Protection Promote
Pro-Poor Growth and Support
MKUKUTA II GOALS
Group II.
Hon. Jenista Mhagama
Anna Mwasha
Daniel Masunzu
Sospeter Nyanda
Sarah L Mshiu
Twaha Mwakioja
Ida Manjolo
Masuma Mamdani
Janet S. Pima
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Background:
Concepts and Definitions
• MKUKUTA II (National Strategy for Growth and
Reduction of Poverty) is a framework that
accelerates poverty reduction by pursuing pro poor
growth interventions in Tanzania
• Social protection includes concepts like poverty,
vulnerability, generalized insecurity and disability.
• Social protection promotes/enforces
implementation of National Strategy for Growth
and Reduction of Poverty Phase II (MKUKUTA II) in
order to achieve its goals.
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Social Protection in Tanzania
• it is described as traditional family and
community support structures, and
interventions by state and non-state actors
that support individuals, households and
communities to:
– Prevent, manage, overcome the risks threatening
present and future security/well-being, and
– Embrace opportunities for their development and
for the social and economic progress
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Social Protection is an essential investment
that contributes to economic growth and
makes growth more pro-poor while directly
reducing poverty. It enhances the capacity of
the poor and vulnerable groups to escape from
poverty, better manage the risks they face and
shocks.
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The following are some of the pathways through
which Social Protection promotes pro-poor
growth and supports MKUKUTA II:(i). Human capital Investment
• Social Protection directly improves the health
status of people which in turn contributes to
promoting economic growth
• SP directly improves nutrition
status and
sanitation through cash transfers and awareness
raising massages. (TZ has high stunting level in
U5)
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• SP supports the participation of the poor in
labor market through investment in education
• SP increases access to public services
particularly markets, health and education
infrastructure, and helps to raise productivity,
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• Social Protection is crosscutting and supports all
clusters in particular cluster II (Improvement of Quality
of Life and Social Well-Being) of the MKUKUTA II to
achieve its goals of -:
- Ensuring equitable access to quality education at all
levels for males and females, universal literacy for
adults, both men and women.
- Improving survival, health nutrition and well being,
especially for children, women and vulnerable groups.
- Increasing access to affordable clean and safe water,
sanitation and hygiene.
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II. Social Protection and Security :
Problem statement
Other poor
Households
(6.8 million
people)
Improvement of Social and
Economic Services
Basic needs poverty line (33%)
food poverty line (16%)
Food insecurity/
chronically poor
Households
(6.4 million
people)
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Cluster II: Improvement of Quality of
Life and Social Well-Being
• focusing on quality of life of the poorest and most
vulnerable groups, reduced inequalities in access
to social services such as education, survival,
health across geographic, income, age, gender
and other groups, and provision and access to
clean and safe water, sanitation, decent shelter
and energy, safe and sustainable environment,
access to social security and social protection,
and thereby reduced vulnerability from
environmental risk.
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Food Security
The more insecure you are the more you are
likely to engage in negative coping mechanism
like taking children out of schools, selling assets,
migrating etc going deeper into poverty.
 social protection interventions will make people
more secure and begin to protect their assets and
start looking for opportunity to invest in
production, begin savings and service sectors.
This stabilizes the demand for agricultural output,
particularly in remote rural communities, and this
stimulates agricultural development.
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Insurance
• Health insurance –( illness is counter
productive)
• Social security (pension)
• Warehouse Receipt Services (linkages to
SACCOs)
• Crop Insurance
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Crop Insurance
 Provides security to farmers such that when
shocks such as droughts, rains occurs farmers can
bounce back through payment by insurances
Warehousing Receipt System (WRS) has played a
catalytic role not only in terms of improved marketing
of agricultural products, but also improved
agricultural production and productivity, farmer’s
confidence, stability of producer’s prices.
Improved Forward and backward linkages security
in the agricultural sector enhance economic growth
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cumulative proportion of income
South Africa’s social grants reduce
inequality substantially
100%
75%
50%
Lorenz curve
with transfers
25%
Lorenz curve without transfers
0
0
SOURCE: EPRI
25%
50%
75%
cumulative proportion of sample
100%
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III. Economic Resilience
Social Protection provides efficient economic
stimulants and:
• Enables economy to better withstand internal
and external shocks
• Provides an automatic stabilizer for the
economy
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Economic Resilience
• All the earlier SP interventions at the micro
level will contribute to the economy being
able to withstand internal and external shocks
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Economic Resilience
• Other potential SP interventions:
– Agriculture input vouchers for fertilizers and
improved seeds to small scale farmers/
producers.
– Promote social health insurance to ensure access
to quality health care to increase economic
resilience (through farmer’s associations)
– Promote alternative livelihood schemes (drought
resistant), diversification from farming
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IV. Economic Reforms:
MKUKUTA II Cluster I
• SP shares the benefits of economic growth
• Makes any economic reform program more
pro-poor
• SP increases the likelihood of success of the
reforms
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Economic Reforms
(more examples)
– Ensure that reforms protect farmers and the
poorest from increasing fuel and kerosene costs:
price controls, for e.g. include a package to
stabilize the price of kerosene
– Should be long lasting, include export and import
measures to protect farmers, for example:
• Lift import restrictions and give tax exemptions to allow
imports during shortages (e.g. sugar imports)
• Restrict exports in times of food shortage
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