The support is revealed in UN’s development blueprint for the next five years that effectively aligns with the country’s Five Year Development Plan that seeks to address teething problems facing the poor in the community.
According to the plan, eight per cent of the funds will be spent in Zanzibar.
Speaking on the funding last week during the official launch of UNDAP’s phase II that focuses on ‘inclusive growth’, ‘a healthy nation’, ‘resilience and democratic governance’, ‘human rights and gender’, the Head of UN Agencies in Tanzania, Alvaro Rodriguez, said the body sought to ensure that values embodied in the global goals are a reality.
“Fundamentally, this latest plan is encapsulated by the term, ‘leave no one behind’, as every citizen in Tanzania and every person in the world should be able to aspire to reach their full potential as envisaged in global goals agenda,” Rodriguez said.
He said that the successful implementation of UNDAP II required everyone’s support and noted that government with the guidance from the government, partners and other stakeholders, the project will be able to achieve shared development objectives.
The key difference between UNDAP I and UNDAP II is that the latter is demand-oriented, with its implementation narrowing the development outcomes from 58 to 12.
“The success of Phase II will make a real contribution to Tanzania and its women, men and children”, he noted.
The UN boss further noted that although development dialogue and aid architecture are under review, there is still a lot that the UN scan do to strengthen synergies between program areas such as cutting costs, and enhancing efficiency in the social/economic sector.
UNDAP II covers the period starting from July 2016 to June 2021, Rodriguez said.
“UNDAP II aims at responding to key national priorities as highlighted in the National Five Year Development Plan and the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) with a focus on the most vulnerable and hard-to-reach citizens,” Rodriguez emphasized.
UNDAP II draws guidance from an in-depth assessment of national priorities and the fast-changing global aid environment, especially as Tanzania approaches middle-income status, as well as on implementation of UNDAP I which comes to an end on June 30, 2016.
UNDAP II covers the first five years of the SDGs and will set in motion the process by which the work will seek to achieve the 2030 agenda.
Servacius Likwelile, Permanent Secretary at Ministry of Finance and Economic Planning said UNDAP II will contribute to achieving national priorities.
“UNDAP II provides an important single approach to the way the UN supports and contributes to the achievement of the national priorities and international commitments with a view to enhancing the effectiveness of the UN support,” Likwelile said in a speech read on his behalf by the Permanent Secretary at Ministry of Justice and Constitutional Affairs, Prof Sifuni Mchome.
He noted that the fifth phase government is committed in bringing rapid growth through industrialization in the next five years.
“This is evidenced by among other things, the allocation of development budget for the first time of 40 per cent from an average of 25 per cent in previous years,” the minister noted.
Two independent studies – the UNDAP 2011-2016 Evaluation and the Tanzania Situation Analysis – were complemented by three internally managed studies – a Stakeholder Perception Survey, a Mapping of the UN Agencies’ Mandates and Accountabilities and a review of UN Tanzania’s Business Operations.
The insights provided by these assessments were used in a series of consultative workshops to determine the UN Country Team's Comparative Advantage to respond to Tanzania’s key development challenges and the anticipated results of the next five-year Programme of Cooperation.
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