Enhancing coordination in Social Protection

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Enhancing coordination in Social Protection

• Team 4 How can coordination in social
  protection be enhanced in Tanzania?

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Outline

1. Principles of social protection framework
2. Institutional set up for coordination
3. Current interventions delivery and
   institutional host
4. Challenges
5. Recommendations

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Principles for Social protection

• Universal provision of social protection to
  address generalized insecurity
• Recognition and respect for the positive social
  and cultural norms and practices in the country
• Investment in long-term human and systemic
  capabilities
• Broad-based community participation and
  decision-making
• Adherence to gender equality and equity,
  childrens rights, and the rights of other
  vulnerable groups
• Coordination and harmonization of social
  protection programs
• Integrated Approach
• International Standards and Codes
• Good governance and accountability
• Sustainability

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Institutional set up
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Institutional set up on national level

• PEED/MOF internal coordination within MOF
• Bringing the evidence base
• Policy formulation and enforcement of guiding
  policies, laws, regulations and guidelines,
  standards and principle of delivery
• Oversight of policy implementation in line with
  principles and delivery standards
• Coordinate capacity development of social
  protection delivery systems
• Mobilize resources and ensure accountability in
  their use.

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National group on SP MDAs, development partners,
and civil society organizations, The WG is
chaired by the MOF (PEED) and UNICEF (DPs)

• The broad objective
• of the SPWG is to help and guide GoT efforts
  towards
• operationalising the NSPF in line with the focus
  of the next MKUKUTA
• (2010-2015), and link it to national budgeting
  considerations to guide
• actions and anchor implementation and
  prioritization.
• Specific objectives
• Strengthening the evidence base for social
  protection.
• Exploring policy and program options for
  cushioning the impact of the crisis.
• Policy development and implementation.
• Advocacy and engagement strategy with national
  processes, institutions and stakeholders towards
  promoting systematic and high level involvement
  of a broad group of stakeholders in stimulating a
  better-informed debate about social protection.

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Role of sector MDAs

• 1. Formulation of specific policies, laws,
  regulations and guidelines in their respective
  mandates
• 2. Coordination of social protection program
  implementation
• 3. Development and implementation of specific
  initiatives and programs in line with standards
• 4. Collection and analysis of data and
  information to all stakeholders in their
  mandates
• 5. Periodic assessment of the national status of
  poverty and vulnerability as part of ongoing
  monitoring and evaluation in their mandates
• 6. Reports on performance.

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RAS level

• 1. Participation in the identification and
  selection of beneficiaries in their respective
  regions
• 2. Coordination and supervision of interventions,
  ensuring adherence to national standards
• 3. Monitoring and evaluation of social protection
  interventions in their respective regions
• 4. Collection and provision of information to
  national level institutions to facilitate
  national coordination, monitoring and evaluation
• 5. Provide technical and logistical support to
  LGAs.

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Local government authorities (LGAs)

• Participate in identifying and selecting
  beneficiaries within their jurisdiction
• Coordinate and supervise interventions, ensuring
  adherence to national standards
• Develop and implement specific social protection
  initiatives
• Monitor and evaluate social protection
  interventions
• Collect and provide information to national level
  institutions

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Civil Society Organizations (CSOs)

• Develop and implement specific social protection
  initiatives
• Support ongoing initiatives that match their own
  priorities
• Advocate and support social protection
  interventions within communities

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Communities

• Promote the family and other informal social
  protection mechanism as well as broader social
  capital
• Provide grassroots data for development,
  coordination and program evaluations
• Participate in planning and implementing local
  social protection initiatives

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INTERVENTIONS IN PLACE
INTERVENTION DELIVERER HOSTING INSTITUTION
Provision of support to Most vulnerable children (MVC) - National costed plan of action for MVC UNICEF Save the children FHI PACT AFRICARE PLAN INTERNATIONAL Pathfinder LGAs MOHSW/PMO
Provision of support to elderly - kwa wazee project HelpAge International REPSI LGAs MOHSW
Provision of cash transfer to food insecure household Public work scheme TASAF (Tanzania Social Action Fund) LGAs President office

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INTERVENTION DELIVERER HOSTINLGAG INSTITUTION
Support to people living with HIV Food assistance (related to Psycho-service and health supplies for PLWHA) TACAIDS AMREF NGOs CBOs FBOs LGAs PMO MOHSW
Provision of free access to health care facilities for under fives, pregnant women, elderly and chronically ill LGAs MOHSW FBOs MOHSW
Free enrolment to the CHF waivers LGA PMO-RALG
Provision of school feeding to promote school enrolment and attendance UNICEF WFP TASAF IFAD Catholic relief Services Oxfam LGAs PMO- RALG MOEVT MOHSW - President office
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INTERVENTION IN PLACE.
INTERVENTION DELIVERER HOSTING INSTITUTION
Emergency Food assistance Grain reserve Provision of shelter , care and psychological support Government NGOs, CSOs, DPs World food program PMO (VPO) Ministry of Agriculture and Food Security MoHSW
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Cont.
Provision of development support to rural households to increase productivity Agricultural input though voucher system Participatory Agriculture Development and Empowerment Program (PADEP) LGAs Ministry of Agriculture
Provision of water to vulnerable communities in 10 villages in every districts LGAs MOW
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Success

• Moving towards a more coordinated structure with
  PEED taking the lead
• New energy injected into coordination process
  through e.g. the workshop
• NSPG has been set-up

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Challenges

• Lack of clarity of definition of Social
  Protection (narrow vs broad)
• leads to confusion for implementers
• Lack of clarity of roles and responsibilities of
  MDAs
• Fragmentation in
• Policies
• Implementation
• Structure (Government Depts)
• Funding (DPs)
• ME
• MIS

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Challenges

• Mismatch between responsibilities and resources
• Lack of Capacity
• Financial
• Human Resources
• Technical
• Lack of information sharing
• Role of SSRA in non-contributory schemes unclear
• PEED faces staffing and financial resource
  challenges
• PEED has been moved around several times

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Recommendations

• Adopt and implement NSPF
• Operationalize and strengthen NSPG
• Clarify the role of the highest level groups in
  SP coordination (NSC, headed by PM PSs forum)
• Ensure that all implementers are represented in
  NSPG
• Resource of PEED adequately

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Recommendations

• Develop coordination mechanisms in the following
  areas (Dr Likweliles proposal)
• Policy
• Regulation
• Implementation
• ME

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on Policy and Regulation

• Clearly define roles and responsibilities of
  sector MDAs with regards to policy setting and
  regulation
• Sharpen definitions of social protection,
  vulnerability, for making them actionable
• Monitor compliance of SP initiatives with NSPF
• Clarify the role of Regulators in the
  coordination structure (non/contributory schemes)

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on implementation

• Establish integrated database of all social
  protection initiatives
• Implement single registry of beneficiaries
• Harmonize methods for enrolment of beneficiaries
• Explore what role big implementers can take on,
  e.g. TASAF
• Ensure portability of benefits when moving
  between jurisdictions

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on ME

• Strengthen harmonized data collection and
  transmission systems for Social Protection
  initiatives
• Develop a common ME framework and standards for
  initiatives (explore role of NBS, think tanks)
• Develop an ME framework for NSPF, linked to
  MKUKUTA
• Coordinate (external) evaluations of pilot
  projects

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National level coordination of SP NSPF proposal
SSRA
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Participants in group 4

1. Josephine Lyengi
2. Martha Mariki
3. Kai Straehler - Pohl
4. Ladislaus Mwamanga
5. Pindi Chana
6. Ahmed Haji
7. Christina Popivanova
8. Charles Kamugisha
9. Gertrude Mapunda

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