Background
Meaningful involvement of citizens in active participation in the monitoring the implementation of public development projects for service delivery is vital to ensure effective processes and attainment of the expected benefits by the society. At the mid of 1980’ sub-Sahara Africa experienced a significant failure in public services delivery where Social accountability Monitoring (SAM) was adopted in order to boost declining economies and public service delivery.
Therefore, Social Accountability Monitoring has been adopted as a tool by civic actors to empower citizens to demand justification and explanation in allocation and utilization of public resource from duty bearers and service providers. It aims at creating a sense of accountability and transparency to duty bearers and service providers in the whole process of Government’s resource management framework through provision of such explanation and justification and provide for any corrective measures taken in cases where public resources have been misused.
Civic Social Protection Foundation (CSP) under funding from NCA implemented a Social accountability monitoring project in two council Babati DC and Mbulu DC- Manyara region from October to December, 2022. The planned activities include: to conduct visit to DED and head of key departments for introduction; to conduct visit to 10 farmers groups/PETS committee for capacity assessment; to conduct a training to SAM members from Babati and Mbulu); to conduct document collection and analysis and to support Babati SAM team to conduct feedback to stakeholders (CMT and general stakeholders).
All activities were implemented as planned and all required stakeholder’s category participated fully in the implementation. Some key stakeholders included PETS committee members, Councilors, Council key head of departments, NGO’s, economic group’s representatives from economic groups which are beneficiaries to the council 4:4:2 loan scheme and Government leaders.
The establishment of SAM intervention in 2 districts was important as the empowered SAM team members shall be responsible in empowering citizens on their right and obligation to demand justification and explanation from duty bearers on resource allocation and utilization.
To create justifiable results, community needs to generate evidence-based results through analysis of information which is created through the processes of Public resources management processes. The information in question is created through process of Social Accountability Monitoring System which is made up of 5 stages of 1) Planning and resource allocation; 2) Expenditure management; 3) Performance management; 4) Public integrity management and 5) Oversight management reports.
One of the SAM training sessions is in progress
Objective
The main objective of the intervention was to empower citizens including smallholder producers’ women and youth and the Core partners through coaching, mentoring and training in order to create necessary skills and knowledge which will be used to actively participate in monitoring of allocation and use of public resources allocated to development activities in their areas;
Specific the intervention aimed to contribute to.
The following approaches were employed
To understand capacity assessment exercise was conduct across 10m groups to identify where the capacity gaps are in terms of the members ability to monitor how public resources are planned and utilized at community.
The aim was to impart special skills and knowledge on how to track public resources across all 5 stages of Social accountability monitoring to the selected team members from the 2 councils.
This is the process where all necessary information from the 5 SAS process were collected and analysed to inform the extent to which duty bearers planed and utilized public resources.
After analysis, the following key issues were identified which were brought into the Agriculture stakeholders feedback meeting for dialogue and provision of justification and explanation from duty bearers and decision makers. Some critical issues identified includes.
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