Project
Empowering Civil Society to Monitor Development Programmes in Tanzania
- Tanzania, United Republic of
- December 2012
The project in Tanzania targeted civil society in the Dodoma region. Most of the population depends on agriculture. The grantee worked with farmers and pastoralists as well as local NGOs, local government officials and community members, to develop more inclusive and responsive development policies, strategies and programmes. The grantee combined awareness raising activities focusing on development programmes to enhance the local population’s engagement in policy dialogue and advocacy with capacity building in development programme process monitoring.
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- Community activism
- Tanzania, United Republic of
- December 2012
The annual CSO forum, which was expected to become the Dodoma region’s future driver of advocacy and lobbying for local development planning and implementation, did not take place. The grantee in Tanzania was unable to ensure ongoing coordination to secure the participation of district-level government representatives.
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- Community activism
- Tanzania, United Republic of
- December 2012
Only two thirds of the targeted 180 civil society organization members in Tanzania completed the training on policy dialogue and advocacy of development programme issues. To ensure impact the grantee should have made a greater effort to involve a higher number of civil society organizations in lobbying of government.
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- Community activism
- Tanzania, United Republic of
- December 2012
The project’s baseline needs assessment revealed that development projects at the local level depended on external support. This dependence on external resources could undermine self-initiative in the villages that the grantee was unable to reach.
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- Community activism
- Tanzania, United Republic of
- December 2012
The civil society organizations in Tanzania networked with each other and were prepared to coordinate development priorities when lobbying for development planning at the district level. Members of the local community advocated for their needs during village-level meetings and through lobbying at district government levels. There is also evidence demonstrating early stages of participation in the monitoring of development programme processes.
