Outcome TZA_D_6.2

More National and Local plans and budgets are gender responsive

The United Republic of Tanzania’s successful integrated several GEWE and LNOB targets and indicators in the National Five-Year Development Plan (FYDP III) 2021/22-2025/6 Mainland under the theme “Realising Competitiveness and Industrialisation for Human Development ” and the Zanzibar Development Plan (ZADEP) under the theme “Blue Economy for Inclusive Growth and Sustainable Development” . This demonstrates the Government’s commitment to GEWE. The monitoring and reporting framework will help sectors, MDAs, and LGAs to track progress of delivering the GEWE & LNOB outcomes, as well as track commitments to enhanced GEWE/LNOB financing and reporting in the FYDP III and ZADEP thus enabling improved gender and inclusive responsive services delivery at all levels. UN Women is part of technical support to strengthen implementation of Monitoring and Evaluation Strategy (MES) by the MoFP through partnership between the World Bank and UNDP. Annotated work plan to strengthen national M&E in Tanzania was shared providing opportunity for UN Women to influence stronger GEWE and LNOB dimensions in the MES in line with the FYDP framework. An online workshop was organized through support to MoFP by World Bank and UNDP in October under the theme Strengthening the MES for Tanzania Five – Year Development Plan (2021-2026) . UN Women will continue to influence this process in 2022 including ensuring that GEWE and LNOB are included as necessary drivers in achieving FYDP III Outcomes; strengthening the GEWE and LNOB indicators, targets, and sources of information within the MES including working with NBS and OCGS to support assessment and improvement of GEWE and LNOB disaggregation in routine data systems

More National and Local plans and budgets are gender responsive

During the reporting period, technical support was provided through policy advisory services to Government partners mandated to ensure that more national plans and budgets are gender responsive. In 2022, the following efforts were made in terms of integrating gender commitments in policies, plans and frameworks that would ensure more national plans and budgets are gender responsive First, Tanzania Country Office collaborated with the Ministry of Finance and Planning that resulted in the government integrating gender targets for the first time in its Public Financial Management Reform Programme (PFMRP) within three out of the five strategic objectives in the PFMRP Strategic Plan (2022-2027). This commitment provides a concrete policy-level entry point for implementing Gender Responsive Budgeting in Tanzania and is in line with SDG target 5.c and indicator 5.c.1 1 , as well as the Tanzania United Nations Sustainable Development Cooperation Framework (UNSDCF), which identifies Financing for Development as a key result area. The integration of gender targets in the PFMRP resulted from UN Women’s provision of detailed technical policy advisory services during the drafting and consultation process. As UN Women Tanzania begins implementation of the new strategic note in 2023, the gender financing portfolio will lead on supporting the Government to realize its commitments in the plan specifically in the areas of domestic revenue collection and external resources, budget management and procurement and asset management. Secondly, technical advisory support was provided in the development of Tanzania generation equality programme 2021/22 – 2025/26. Specifically, support was provided in drafting the results related to implementation of Gender-responsive macro-economic plans, budget reforms and stimulus packages that reduce the number of young women and girls living in poverty. The programme provides a detailed contextual analysis, proposed interventions and results for United Republic of Tanzania under the Economic Justice and Rights coalition which the president is leading on at the global level. Third, UN Women held several consultation meetings with IMF Tanzania and headquarters to explore the possibility of integrating gender specific considerations in the next review of the Extended Credit Facility accountability framework with the United Republic of Tanzania. The facility is worth USD 1 billion. This was based on the premise that the United Republic of Tanzania is a leader of the Economic Justice and Rights Action coalition. In line with the current framework, it is envisaged that the facility will provide investment in specific social sectors. UN Women proposed to work with IMF in refinement of the targets in line with Tanzania’s commitment to the Generation Equality Forum (GEF). Attached is the submission sent to IMF HQ. In addition, in an effort to strengthen the application of Gender Responsive Budgeting (GRB) as a tool for gender mainstreaming , three key outputs were achieved. First, a gender analysis of fiscal policies was carried out that listed the major policies and the relevant budget and PFM reforms related documents to assess the level of GRB mainstreaming and the gaps that are an impediment for an effective integration of GRB. Thereafter, recommendations based on the analysis were provided to inform the preparation of policies and budget along with the PFM reforms in the future. Secondly, Analysis of the National Budget 2022/2 was carried out including a detailed analysis of the key sectors -agriculture, infrastructure, health, education and others to assess the strengths and weaknesses of the Government’s new fiscal measures from a gender perspective. Third, a GRB capacity assessment, and was also carried out in mainland with technical consultations having taken place with Ministry of Finance and Planning, Parliament Budget office, National Audit office and Office of Treasury Registrar respectively. The report has been finalized and the recommendations are scheduled to be shared with the stakeholders in quarter four of 2022. In addition, through the technical assistance provided, a gender mainstreaming guidance note Public Expenditure Review (PER) has also been developed. The support documents are attached. On strengthening coordination mechanisms, the Ministry of Finance and planning (MOFP) GRB core team was established for the first time and an inception meeting was held. The GRB core team is chaired by the Commissioner of Budget and comprised of technical officers from all MoFP departments. Its role will be to provide technical guidance to accelerate mainstreaming a gender perspective into all MoFP operational mechanisms. It will also support enhancing coordination, strengthening capacity building, reporting, monitoring and evaluation so as to allow for system-wide assessment of progress in mainstreaming GRB principles. Attached are the terms of reference. Finally, a GRB training sessions were held for all Government ministries directors of policy and planning from Tanzania, officers in the Ministries of Finance and planning (mainland and Zanzibar), members of the Tanzanian Women Parliamentary Group (TWPG) and for the UN Gender and human rights coordination group. These sessions highlighted the context of inadequate alignment of public finance management reforms and global geopolitical developments for achieving inclusive and sustainable growth for advancing gender equality and women’s empowerment. The sensitization for the UN gender and human rights coordination mechanism also provided guidance for members on how to advocate for increased gender financing in the UN co-operation framework. Attached is the presentation made at the training sessions for the different groups.