CED 615: SOCIAL PLANNING AND POLICY FOR DEVELOPMENT
PROGRAM: MASTERS OF COMMUNITY ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT (MCED)
CENTER: ARUSHA
FACULTY OF ARTS AND SOCIAL SCIENCES
Question: How is the role of the NGO(s) sector in welfare provision in Tanzania changed during the two decades?
Name: Yakob Petro
Reg. no.: HD/A/270/T.10
Submission date: 31st October, 2010 Table of Contents
1.0 Introduction 3
1.1 Definition of Key Concepts 3
1.1.1 Welfare 3
1.1.2 Non-governmental Organization (NGO) 3
1.2 The main objective 4
1.2.1 Specific objectives 4
2.2 Emergence of the NGO sector in Tanzania 5
2.3 NGO(s) sector in welfare provision 6
2.4 The role of NGO(s) sector on welfare provision in the last two decades 8
3.0 Conclusion 11
4.0 Reference 12
1.0 Introduction
The state of welfare provision in Tanzania is in largely the outcome of policies that have been in place for the past several decades. From the time of independence the delivery of a wide range of social services were viewed as government responsibility and policy markers sought to extend health, education, water and other social services to the largely rural population. According to the National Policy on Non-governmental Organization (2001), the government recognizes the collaborative and partnership of other development actors and social services providers and therefore the NGOs have a role to play in welfare provision and economic services delivery. This paper shall discuss on how is the role of the NGO (s) sector in the welfare provision in the country changed in the last two decades. The paper will be divided in three sections; the first section will provide definitions of key concepts and then narrating the main and specific objectives as the milestone to be covered in the paper. The second section will be the main discussion which will try