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Tanzania Country Programme
Summary

I. Basic data

Sector(s): Bilateral Aid to Tanzania
Title: Tanzania Country Programme
Donor country / organization: Ireland (Irish Aid)
Beneficiary countries / regions: Tanzania
Implementing agencies in beneficiary countries / regions: Irish Aid
Duration: 1975 - to date
Starting Date: 1975
Project / Program budget: Ireland's Bilateral Aid Fund - allocation of IR£7,785,000 in 1998 (excluding Multilateral Debt Relief and Sector Aid ~ see separate sheets); expenditure of IR£6,196,040 in 1997 (excluding Sector Aid).
Finance / Type of cooperation: Grant and technical cooperation

II. Project / program description

  1. Objectives
    The primary objective of the Tanzania Country Programme is poverty alleviation through direct support for basic needs through development at rural District level and more recently in urban communities; support is also given through capacity building at community, local and national level in order to maximise the capacity and involvement of the Tanzanian people in their development.
  2. Activities / contents
    The components of the Programme are District-level rural development, support for local government reform, agriculture/natural resources, education, health, human rights and democratization and support for national capacity building initiatives (including tourism training).
    The impact of grassroots/District level support - in the fields of basic education, health care, agriculture, poverty reduction, capacity building and good governance - is being reinforced through support at national level to the Government of Tanzania's sectoral reforms in education, health, local government reform and agriculture (research and extension). The new National Poverty Eradication Strategy is also being supported.
    The Country Programme is strongly based on the principle and practice of participatory development, including community participation. Support to human rights and democratization is targeted at increasing both people's awareness of their human and civic rights and the accountability of State institutions to their citizens.
  3. Expected outcomes / impacts
    Improvement in the standard of living of the poorest sections of the Tanzanian population in the areas which we support; Empowernment and capacity building at community, local and national levels contributing directly to economic growth and helping sustainability.
  4. Features in line with the Agenda for Action
    The Tanzania Country Programme is in line with the policies set out in "Challenges and Opportunities Abroad: White Paper on Foreign Policy" published by the Government of Ireland in 1996.

III. Contact point:

Tanzania Desk, Bilateral Aid Section, Development Cooperation Division, Department of Foreign Affairs, Dublin

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