Productive Social Safety Net (PSSN)
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The contribution is an additional support to the implementation of Tanzania’s Productive Social Safety Net (PSSN) program which aim at the poorest segment of the population. The additional financing is motivated by good results achieved so far, by a collaboration that works well, by an existing financing gap and by desirability to increase the incentive for Ta...
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The contribution is an additional support to the implementation of Tanzania’s Productive Social Safety Net (PSSN) program which aim at the poorest segment of the population. The additional financing is motivated by good results achieved so far, by a collaboration that works well, by an existing financing gap and by desirability to increase the incentive for Tanzania to contribute to the programme to a larger extent. The assessment that was made to underpin the decision on support in March 2016 is still largely valid. The program is nationwide and targets approximately one million households identified as extremely poor. Every two month households receive a fixed cash transfer that is adjusted to the household size. In addition to the fixed contribution, households can also receive an additional transfer that is conditional on children attending school and small children brought on regular visits to primary health care centres. PSSN also includes a public works component. During the agricultural lean season, when it is difficult to find temporary jobs, labour-intensive projects that in various ways contribute to the local communities’ development are implemented (e.g. construction of class rooms and dams for irrigation). Only people belonging to the poorest households, i.e. those who are also eligible for the direct cash transfers, are eligible to participate in the public works projects.By design PSSN empowers women. The payment of both cash contributions and compensation for participation in public works are made to an adult woman in the household. Only in households where there is no adult woman the payment can be made to a man. In addition to the direct cash transfers and public works components, PSSN includes a livelihood component to help households develop productive activities in order to eventually be able to graduate from poverty.The Tanzanian government represented by the Ministry of Finance and Planning is Sweden’s agreement partner. Tanzania Social Action Fund (TASAF), under the President's Office, is the implementing authority. Sweden's contribution will be deposited in a program account at the Bank of Tanzania as will the contributions from the World Bank and DFID. Tanzania, represented by the Ministry of Finance and Planning, is formally responsible for ensuring that the Swedish contribution is used for intended purposes. TASAF uses the money in the program account to implement PSSN in accordance with agreed annual work-plans and budgets. PSSN’s National Steering Committee, with representatives from both the public and private sector, is responsible for the strategic management of the program and decides on annual plans and budgets. TASAF and its director is responsible to the NSC, and have overall responsibility for program implementation and monitoring. TASAF implements the program in villages and urban wards through regional and local level government authorities. TASAF is part of the Tanzanian Government and is organisationally located under the President’s Office.Sweden's share of the total budget represents 21 percent during the financial years 2017/2018-2019/2020. The World Bank, DFID and Sweden all contribute significant amounts to the programme. There are some uncertainty regarding the financing during period for the additional Swedish financing. The World Bank is expected to decide on yet another additional financing and Sweden will then most likely be the second largest donor after World Bank during the period. This will increase Sweden’s weight in the dialogue and the possibility to influence. Other donors development partners contributing to PSSN include UN, USAID, Irish Aid and Bill and Melinda Gates Fundation. The donors, together with Tanzania, have established a coordination structure through which dialogue and monitoring are carried out. Twice a year, joint monitoring and planning missions are carried out, including field visits.
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Result
This contribution covered PSSN I which was implemented from 2016 to 2019. However due to delays in finalising an agreement for the follow up program PSSN II wich started in 2019/2020, the PSSN I agreement was exteneded to cover one disbursement of 100 MSEK to PSSN II in 2021. This contribution was supposed to close in 2022 but as the component of rolling audit support from the PWC is linked to the PSSN I agreement, the agreement needed to be extended until 30 June 2023. The PWC agreement ends 15 June, 2023. One of the pending last assignments is to submit documentation confirming that all the Swedish funding to PSSN I, including the 100 MUSD disbursed to PSSN II in 2021, have been exhausted by TASAF. A key activity in 2023 linked to PSSN I is publication of the NAOT performance audit on PSSN I which was carried out through the Swedish support to the NAOT. For more details consult the audit statement. To conclude, this PSSN I contribution only remains open for administrative reasons, no results have been financed under the budget year 2022/2023 through this contibution. For results of PSSN II please consult the CoP for the main PSSN II contribution number 14350. The NAOT performance audit for PSSN I highlights that most of the objectives of the PSSN I program has been reached. Some concerns were raised on targetted infrastructure projects, the MIS data system and the revised indicators. Below follows a few highlights from the report. Highlights from the performance audit: - TASAF implemented PSSN I intervention to increase income through cash transfers and public works whereby cash transfers to beneficiaries involved both basic and conditional cash transfers. The Audit noted that, livelihood of PSSN beneficiaries changed compared to their initial livelihood status - Cash Transfer to Beneficiaries Timely Complied with the respective Payment Windows by 96% in the visited Regions - The Abandonment of Public works Projects due to Incompleteness During site visit to 36 PAA, it was noted that, in the sampled villages, there were 69 abandoned projects out of 657 PWP which were implemented by PSSN I in all the villages visited. - 75% of Performance Indicators were revised during the Implementation of PSSN-I. During processing of an Additional Financing from the World Bank in 2016, the indicators were reviewed in order to improve their clarity, simplicity, relevance and measurability.
The overall objective of the program has changed in formulation between phase one and two. Phase one: To reduce poverty and vulnerability for girls, boys, women and men of poor households. In phase two it now reads: To improve access to income-earning opportunities and socio-economic services for targeted poor households while enhancing and protecting the human capital of their children. The program consists of cash transfers to families in extreme poverty, public works and livelihoods activities. Public works and livelihood is planned to be scaled up in phase two which is one of the larger differences from phase one, but which does not divert from the original plan. The program is also planned to be scaled up in total from 1.1 million households to 1.3 million households, covering the whole of Tanzania.
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