WORLD Bank supported conditional cash transfer programme (CCT) has contributed to reduction of extreme poverty in Tanzania especially among female headed household who constitute 54 per cent of beneficiaries.
According to the World Bank Country
Director for Tanzania, Bella Bird the programme achievements have been
remarkable in reducing extreme poverty among Tanzanians. The WB boss
commented on the matter last week in a document that was published in
the organisation’s website.
Her comments based on the on recent
impact evaluation, which involved 7,400 randomly selected households in
Tanzania mainland and Zanzibar.
The programme has also contributed to
the improved consumption of food and access to health and education
services, enhancing and protecting the human capital investment in
children.
“To sustain such impressive progress and
in order to achieve the required impact at scale, we encourage the
government to ensure sustainable financing and to continue investwing in
the implementation capacity at different levels.” Said Ms Bird.
The CCT programme is part of the World
Bank-supported Tanzania Productive Social Safety Net Project, which aims
to increase income and food consumption for vulnerable groups and
strengthen their ability to cope with shocks.
Despite respectable economic growth
rates averaging 7per cent over the past decade, poverty rate remains at
28 per cent with about 9 per cent of the population, which is four
million people, affected by food poverty.
Funded in part by international
development Association (IDA), the bank’s fund for the poorest, the
Tanzanian government piloted the conditional cash transfer programme in
2010 in support of its broader social protection strategy.
Families enrolled in the programme
received a small amount of money, approximately 13/- US dollar each
month) as incentive to increase household consumption of food,
particularly proteins, as well as health and education services which
they would otherwise have had to forego.
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