Transcript Country monitoring of International Development Goals

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
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
Tanzania Progress Report on IDTs/MDGs
Background
 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
Tanzania Progress Report on IDTs/MDGs
Background
 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 rollout of progress reports
 Some copies of report available, or access
Tanzania Online (www.tzonline.org)
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
Tanzania Progress Report on IDTs/MDGs
Contents
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
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
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.
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
Tanzania’s Poverty Monitoring System
Key components of the Master Plan:
 Surveys and Census Programme
 Routine Data Programme
 Research and Analysis Programme
 Dissemination Programme
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
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 systemwide initiative and a strategic objective under the
UNDAF