In order for
Tanzania to acquire a highly equitable and sustainable economic growth
incorporation of ...
informed decisions is inevitable, hence, the latter are
the new currencies of the 21-century development (particularly in the
African landscape) which demand seamless tools to analyze, and yet--the
World Bank, has just the set right direction to that.
According to the
World Bank, lowering the cost of project monitoring and creation of
feedback loops was their key goal, which brought them to interesting
creative solutions.
The latter
resonates with the high-demands of decision-makers to understand,
impacts of their actions, which dictate future plans, thus--calling for
feedback loops.
Feedback loops (as
called by World Bank) tend to offer a form of incentive triggering an
action, as most decision-makers wish to avoid the possibility of their
inaction, ruining their future endeavors within data collection and
other development angles.
This means that,
various development projects executed by the government of Tanzania,
including the large construction projects (Stieglers Gorge (Julius
Nyerere Dam and Standard Gauge Railway) and other projects streamlined
in the Tanzania Development Plan (TDV, 2025), with the clear intention
of nurturing industrialization for economic transformation and human
development, ought to adopt the feedback tools for better-informed
development outcomes.
Therefore, World
Bank proposes two pathways that provide timely and actionable
information and by functioning as an accountability mechanism. Per the
World Bank, SWIFT and IBM are the two tools forged to execute regular
feedback affordable.
Tanzania's development plans landscape
The fifth Tanzanian
government is strictly focused on rejuvenating various investment
angles which can prove (and have been proving ) billions necessary for
Tanzanian development success.
As the country's
five-year plan indicates plainly that: Tanzania is replete with most of
the resources required to achieve its development plans, with assistance
from its development partners (including the World Bank).
Tanzania has
streamlined its clear intention to develop its human capital via, the
National Strategy for Growth and Reduction of Poverty (NSGR), which has
elongated into a second phase, with the main focus on: ushering new
interventions to enable Tanzania industrialize in a transformative
manner to impact the economy and society, mainstreaming nurturing an
industrial economy and realizing competitiveness-led export growth.
At present ( the
2019 first quarter), Tanzania's Gross Domestic Product (GDP) is
experiencing significant contribution from three sectors: agriculture
(26.1 per cent), construction (26.6 per cent) and transportation and
storage activities (12.5 per cent), while, African Development Bank
(AfDB), point the East African's economic growth to be at 6.6 per cent
and same applies to 2020.
Therefore, a
critical assessment of the developmental landscape is yet tantamount to
development itself, as it a fundamental approach to the creation of
sustainability.
SWIFT tool
The Survey of Well
being via Instant and Frequent Tracking (SWIFT), is the tool created
specifically to promote a timely, cost-effective, and simple way to
monitor the two best goals of the World Bank which are: ending extreme
poverty and boosting shared prosperity.
African nation's
such as Tanzania with Household surveys executed over space and time,
covering the entire population, could benefit from it enormously.
This is because,
SWIFT is a cost-effective option to gather welfare information for
project beneficiaries, but also--to monitor project contributions.
Patently, countries
can implement the latter with only less than $ 100,000 and spending
five minutes, SWIFT can execute its functions per household interview,
whereby--just for few minutes, data can be processed exhaustively.
Therefore,
household budget surveys and other household surveys focusing on
fetching out welfare information, stand to improve and even develop
further better versions of survey, over time and space, under effective
utilization of the tools.
IBM tool
This tool presents
quick flows of feedback loops to make projects more effective,
whereby--data is gathered rather directly from people via focused
interviews with appropriate samples and technology.
The IBM tool is designed to suit fragile and conflict situations, where data collection can be quite a challenge.
Further, the IBM
tool survey--is created to be carried out in less than four weeks, while
costing less than $5,000, and executed using modern gadgets such as
mobile phones or tablets, producing, a coherent and comprehensive report
(less than 10 pages) for project staff.
Why the tools matter
According to World
Bank, tools such as SWIFT are being used to fill critical data gaps on
mobile penetration across income groups by aggregating questions on
mobile phone uptake and usage with consumption estimates.
However, the
latter--promotes projects to make clear analysis beyond the physical and
investment within telecommunications infrastructure to comprehend the
access of digital technology and phones vary over socioeconomic groups
within Tanzania.
From the latter,
Tanzania uses the results for clear-cut evidence-based policy
recommendations to enhance access to mobile phone and internet
technology for the most impoverished groups of the population in the
country, this is through--the digitization of public services, social
protection mechanisms, and future regulatory efforts.
World Bank argues
that: minor investments and projects can implement quantitative evidence
to inform decision-making in ways that were not achievable before,
assuring sustainable development outcomes through greater efficiency,
agility, and performance.
The tools show that
without IBM certain social and agricultural subsides would still go
mainly to male heads of households, rather than guided by
gender-informed manners.
These two tools
prove to be crucial within Tanzania's development landscape, and yet the
big question to ask is whether which tool should Tanzania take-up first
and in which kind of project executed over space and time in Tanzania
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