Country monitoring of International Development Goals - the case of Tanzania

1. Country monitoring of International Development Goals - the case of Tanzania Presentation at the PARIS21 Workshop for East Africa and the Great Horn, 23 July 2001

2. Layout of the presentation • Tanzania’s progress report on the IDTs/MDGs • Tanzania’s comprehensive Poverty Monitoring System • Support by development partners for the monitoring system

3. Tanzania Progress Report on IDTs/MDGsBackground • UN Global Conferences of the 1990s defined a large number of goals/targets • These were summarised in the International Development Targets under the OECD/DAC umbrella • September 2000: about 180 countries formally agree on an augmented set of Millennium Declaration (Development) Goals • United Nations Development Group (UNDG) tasked with monitoring and reporting

4. Tanzania Progress Report on IDTs/MDGsBackground • Prepared by the UN System in Tanzania, in close collaboration with the Government • First presented at Child Poverty meeting in London, February 2001 • Tanzania report to serve as ‘model’ for global roll-out of progress reports • Some copies of report available, or access Tanzania Online (www.tzonline.org)

5. Purpose of Progress Reports • Monitoring progress • Highlighting development challenges • Describing and analysing policy environment • Providing focus for external assistance • Highlighting data needs and capacity requirements

6. Tanzania Progress Report on IDTs/MDGsContents For each goal: • Status and trends (including graphics) • Overview of challenges to achieving the goal • Analysis of the supportive environment • Priorities for development assistance • Analysis of the M&E environment

7. Outstanding issues • Further work to be done on targets, definitions, relationship between IDTs and MDGs • Need to define categories for supportive environment, M&E environment

8. Take note ! IDT/MDG reporting should not be a stand-alone exercise, but should be firmly embedded in a national statistical system and in the national decision making process.

9. Tanzania’s Poverty Monitoring System • Developed over the past year, based on strong foundations laid before that • Developed in the context of the PRSP • Draft Poverty Monitoring Master Plan out for review • Master Plan contains: • detailed work programme (3 year outlook) • budget • capacity building provisions

10. Tanzania’s Poverty Monitoring System Key components of the Master Plan: • Surveys and Census Programme • Routine Data Programme • Research and Analysis Programme • Dissemination Programme

11. Tanzania’s Poverty Monitoring System Poverty Monitoring Master Plan documents: • agreement on indicators • institutional framework for poverty monitoring • Tanzania Socio-Economic Database (TSED) is the heart of the Poverty Monitoring System • IDT/MDG progress reporting will be a function of the system

12. External support for poverty monitoring • A strong group of closely collaborating development partners supports poverty monitoring in Tanzania: DFID, JICA, Netherlands, UN System • Working on joint support programme for the poverty monitoring system • Within UN - poverty monitoring seen as a system-wide initiative and a strategic objective under the UNDAF