JOINT UNDP-UNICEF-UNFPA-ILO PROGRAMME
TO SUPPORT TANZANIA’S PRODUCTIVE SOCIAL
SAFETY NETS (PSSN)
International Conference on Social Protection – 15 December 2014
Outline
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Background and Rationale
Programme Budget
Partners
Strategic Approach
Outcome and Outputs
Governance and Coordination Structure
Organizational Structure
Background and rationale
• Despite high economic growth since 2001, Tanzania has made
little progress towards reducing extreme hunger and
malnutrition – 28.2% of the population (11,909, 427) still lives
below the basic needs poverty line.
• The majority of the population have little or no access to
adequate supply of portable water, basic sanitation and health
services
• Despite improvements in basic education, there are still
significant challenges such as declining quality standards and
gender disparities in primary education access
• Fertility is still high in Tanzania and 116 out of 1000 girls start
childbearing by age 18 years
Background and rationale
• In response to these challenges, the Government of Tanzania has
developed national strategies for growth and poverty
alleviation: MKUKUTA & MKUZA
• The social protection goals of these strategies are concerned with
the provision of adequate social protection for poor and
vulnerable groups
• Towards this end, the Government established the Tanzania
Social Action Fund (TASAF) in the early 2000s
• Based on the success of TASAF I and II, it was decided to design
and implement TASAF III/PSSN
Background and rationale
• In February 2014, the Government of Tanzania requested the
UN Resident Coordinator a.i. to provide support to the scaling
up of the PSSN being operationalized through the TASAF III.
• UNDP and UNICEF fielded an in-country mission of 4
consultants to formulate a joint UNDP/UNICEF programme.
• A concept note on the JP – with ILO, UNDP, UNFPA and
UNICEF - was submitted to the SDG Fund in June 2014 and a
fully fledged project proposal was submitted in September 2014.
Programme budget
Total programmable budget: USD 4,253,250
Total allocated resources 2014-2016:
Allocated resources:
• SDG-F:
USD 1,500,000
• UNDP:
USD 1,500,000
• ILO:
USD
30,000
• UNICEF:
USD
350,000
• UNFPA:
USD
300,000
• TASAF/World Bank:
USD
258,250
• Government:
USD
420,000
Indicative commitments:
Programme budget
Budget broken down by agency and year:
Agencies
Year 1
Year 2
Total
UNDP
825,348
1,545,000
2,370,348
UNICEF
715,000
577,502
1,292,502
UNFPA
150,000
210,000
360,000
ILO
210,400
20,000
230,400
1,905,748
2,352,502
4,253,250
Total programmable
budget
Partners
Implementing Partner
Responsible Parties:
(Other partners responsible
for project activities under
agreement with the IP)
TASAF
Ministry of Finance; Ministry of Labour, Ministry
of Labour and Public Services – Zanzibar,
Ministry of Health and Social Welfare, Ministry
of Health – Zanzibar, Ministry of Women,
Children, Youth and Empowerment – Zanzibar,
Social Security Regulation Authority, Local
Government Authorities, Engender Health,
Chama Cha Bora Tanzania – UMATI, CSOs and
Private Sector, Trade Union Congress of Tanzania
(TUCTA), Association of Tanzania Employers
(ATE), Zanzibar Trade Union Congress (ZATUC),
Zanzibar Employer’s Association (ZANEMA),
Prime Minister’s Office, Local Government and
Regional Administration, National Bureau of
Statistics
Strategic approach
The strategic approach of the JP is three-pronged:
Macro-level
• Support to finalization and operationalization of the National
Social Protection Framework (NSPF)
Meso-level
• Enhance efficiency and effectiveness of PSSN by strengthening
programme implementation and delivery systems
Micro-level
• Strengthen sustainable livelihoods and resilience mechanisms for
PSSN, which will allow beneficiaries to accumulate human
capital, improve well-being and graduate and exit programme
Outcome and outputs
Outcome 1: PSSN Programme implementation and delivery systems of the
TASAF Management Unit, Regional Officers, District Councils and
Communities strengthened
Output 1.1: Social protection knowledge management system strengthened
Output 1.2: Institutional capacities of the PSSN Programme implementation
structures strengthened
Output 1.3: Robust PSSN Programme Monitoring and Evaluation and
Management Information System (MIS) enhanced, including indicators on
gender, climate change and other cross-cutting issues
Output 1.4: Sector line ministry community extension workers capacity built to
manage and implement Community Sessions
Output 1.5: NSPF and PSSN indicators incorporated into
NBS national, thematic and panel survey instruments
Outcome and outputs
Outcome 2: Social protection interventions are coordinated across sectors
under National Social Protection Framework to address supply side issues
Output 2.1: National Social Protection Framework (NSPF) finalized and
implemented
Output 2.2: A harmonised PSSN and NSPF coordination mechanisms
established
Outcome and outputs
Outcome 3: Sustainable livelihood and resilience mechanisms for the PSSN
strengthened
Output 3.1: Pro-poor and child-sensitive social protection institutionalized at
all levels to prevent inter-generational poverty
Output 3.2: Mechanisms for strengthening medium to long term community
and household resilience to risk and shocks developed
Output 3.3: Effective gender sensitive and sustainable livelihoods models
tested and implemented
Governance and coordination structures
• A National Steering Committee (NSC)/Project Board (PB)
composed of the RC, Government representatives and a
representative from the Embassy of Spain or AECID will be set
up
• The existing UNDAP Social Protection Work Group (SPWG)
will function as the Programme Management Committee
(PMC) of the JP. The PMC will be responsible for the
operational coordination and will report to NSC/PB.
Project organizational structure
Project Board
Senior Bénéficiers
(MoF, MoL, MoHSW,
PMO-RALG etc.)
Executive Secretary
(TASAF)
Senior Supplier
UNDP, UNICEF, UNFPA,
ILO, Embassy of Spain or
AECID, DPs
Project Management Committee
Social Protection Programme
Working Group
MOF
MOL
MOHSW
PMO-RALG
Project
Coordinator
MOH