ASDP: Environmental And Social Management Framework

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3. DESCRIPTION OF THE PROPOSED PROGRAM.3.1 Program BackgroundMeeting Tanzania’s Poverty Reduction Strategy and Millennium Development Goal ofhalving poverty by 2015, will require annual GDP growth of at least 6-7 percent which issignificantly higher than that achieved over the last decade. As agriculture remains thelargest sector in the economy accounting for about half of GDP and exports and 70percent of rural incomes, higher agricultural growth is a key requirement to meeting theMDGs. Future agricultural growth and profitability will need to rely more on productivitygains with the reduced space for further improvements in macro-economic policy, a keycontributing factor to improved agricultural incentives in the late 1980s and 1990s.In August 2001, The Government of Tanzania (GoT) approved the Agricultural SectorDevelopment Strategy (ASDS) which envisages an agricultural sector that, by 2025, ismodernized, commercial, highly productive and profitable, and utilizes natural resourcesin a sustainable manner. The ASDS has identified five strategic issues:• Strengthening the institutional framework.• Creating a favorable environment for commercial activities.• Clarifying public and private sector roles in improving support services.• Strengthening marketing efficiency for inputs and outputs, and• Mainstreaming planning for agricultural development in other sectors.The key policy features of the ASDS are;• Sustained agricultural growth target of at least 5% per annum, to be achievedthrough the transformation from subsistence to commercial agriculture, as a coreelement of the Poverty Reduction Strategy.• Transformation is to be private sector-led through an improved enablingenvironment for enhancing the productivity and profitability of agriculture, with theremoval of constraints to private sector involvement.• Sector development to be facilitated through public/private partnerships,including increased contract farming (vertical integration), with a delineation ofpublic/private roles.• Focus on participatory planning and implementation, using the framework of theDistrict Agricultural Development Plans (DADPs), which is part of the DistrictDevelopment Plans (DDPs).• Decentralization of service delivery responsibilities to Local Governments.• Mainstreaming of cross-cutting and cross-sectoral issues in agriculturaldevelopment operations.Policies, Legislative and Regulatory arising out of the ASDS and ASDP will beaddressed through the framework of the rolling PRSC process.12/114
Whereas, the Agricultural Sector Development Program (ASDP), developed jointly bythe four Agriculture Sector Lead Ministries (ASLM’s) 2 , provides the overall frameworkand operational process for implementing the ASDS. To this end, the GoT with financialassistance from the World Bank, International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD)and other bilateral donors is planning to implement the Agricultural Sector DevelopmentProgram (ASDP). The ASDP also provides GoT, especially the four ASLM’s with asector-wide framework for overseeing the institutional reforms and investment priorities.3.2 PROGRAM DESCRIPTIONDevelopment activities at the national level are to be funded based on the strategic plansof the line ministries while activities at the district level are to be implemented by localGovernment Authorities (LGAs), based on District Agricultural Development Plans(DADPs). The DADPs are to be part of the broader District Development Plan (DDP).The ASDP is to be supported through a multi-donor “basket funded” arrangement toprevent high transaction costs of parallel programs. The basket would move towardsbudget support and, through detailed design of the program, would ensure improvedefficiency of these sector expenditures. Efforts would be made to ensure that the“basket” abides by the principles of the budget process to ensure greater sustainability ofthe program.The ASDP is designed as a three phase program with Phase1, 2 and 3 each planned forthree years.3.2.1 Program Development ObjectivesThe Program Development Objectives of the ASDP are;(iii) Sustained 5 percent annual growth of agricultural GDP (averaged over arolling three year period) through improved productivity and profitability of thesector and(iv) Higher farm productivity, profitability and incomes through improved accessto and use of relevant agricultural knowledge and technology by farmers;increased district level investment; and improved market development.This three phased Adaptable Program Loan, APL, would allow over a 9-10 year periodsupport by development partners to the Government’s efforts to (i) improve theresponsiveness of agricultural services to farmer needs; (ii) implement districtagricultural development plans; and (ii) market development (local, regional andinternational). Over the three phases the program would progressively increase both itssectoral and geographic coverage. The sequencing and main thrust of the three phaseswould be:• Phase I (three years): focus on empowering farmers/clients to make betterinformed decisions on technology choice; introducing a more contestable anddecentralized system of agricultural services and extension to improve itsrelevance and encourage pluralism in service provision with a greater role for the2 The ASLMs include the three sector line ministries: The Ministry of Agriculture, Food and Cooperatives(MAFC), Ministry of Livestock Development (MLD) and Ministry of Industries, Trade and Marketing(MITM), as well as the Prime Minister’s Office – Regional Administration and Local Government (PMO-RALG)13/114
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Annex A: Verification of Safeguards
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