BY
AMRI LUGUNGULO
Tanzania Social Action Fund (TASAF) has asked the top management
to collaborate with journalists to ensure accurate reports on poverty
eradication countrywide.
The Executive Director, Ladislaus Mwamanga told participants at
a workshop on productive social safety net (PSSN) programme in Tanga recently
that proper collaboration with the media will deny the distortion of facts, a
hindrance to development and household inaccessibility to government funds.
The workshop involved participants from various government
institutions including, district coordinators, monitoring officers, accountants
and journalists in Tanga, Dar es Salaam and Coast regions.
He said the third phase of TASAF initiatives has so far empowered
a number of households with the distribution of funds of between 10,000/- and
38,000/- depending on individuals level of poverty.
“Few households continue to reel in poverty due to the failure
to use government services like education to come out from poverty,” he said.
He added, “The new TASAF initiative of giving subsidy to poor
households has successfully helped in poverty reduction to rural dwellers”.
He said so far, the research conducted has identified 70 percent
of the poor households as they wait to identify the other remaining percentage.
According to him, the programme has so far impressed
multi-national financial organisations including the International Monetary
Fund (IMF) which currently supports the initiative under the Millennium
Development Goal (MDG).
The funds Director of Poverty Eradication and Empowerment,
Fariji Mishael urged participants to build teamwork to make the programme
successful.
SOURCE: THE GUARDIAN
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