Tanzania Water Sector
DPG-Water Retreat September 8th, 2005
Development Partner Support for Establishing a Sector Wide Approach
Overview
 New Developments in Aid Delivery
 What do we understand by a SWAp?
 Why do / should we want a SWAp?
 Key Components of a SWAp
 Good Practices
 Guiding Questions and Proposed Agenda for Retreat
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New Developments in Aid Delivery
Trend to adopt
 Program-Based Approaches
 Policy-Based Lending
Development Cooperation based on the principle of coordinated
support for a locally owned program / policy of development.
Paris Declaration
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What do we unterstand by a SWAp?
 A Sector-Wide Approach is a way of working in a sector.
 A Sector-Wide Approach is based on a locally owned program of
development with the following characteristics:
 Leadership by the host country
 Single comprehensive program for sector (specific, time bound
and costed set of actions and activitites)
 Formalised process for donor coordination and harmonisation
 Efforts to increase the use of local systems / procedures
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Why do / should we want a SWAp?
Motivation for Sector-Wide Approaches
 To broaden ownership by partner Governments over decision
making with respect to sector policy, strategy and spending
 To increase coherence between sector policy, spending and
results through greater transparency, wider dialogue and ensuring
a comprehensive view of the sector
 To minimise as far as possible the transaction costs associated
with provision of external finance, either by direct adoption of
government procedures or through progressive harmonisation of
individual donor procedures.
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Key Components of a SWAp
Sector MTEF
Coordination
Process
Funding
Arrangements
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Sector
Policy /
Strategy
Harmonised
Systems
Performance
Monitoring
System
Client
Consultation
Mechanism
Good Practices
 What are the internationally recognized Good Practices for a
SWAp?
 How do we customize them for the Tanzanian water sector?
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Example for Good Practices –
Sector Policy / Strategy
A good Policy / Strategy Document would:
 Be authored by the government and endorsed at high political level
 Be consistent with the overall development strategy (Mkukuta,
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JAS, PRBS-PAF)
Establish basic principles, objectives and strategies
Adress the role of government in the sector, and define the
allocation of responsibilities across government
Focus on the whole sector’s resource requirements
Have a strong result orientation
Set out clear mechanisms for monitoring, review and roll-over
Harmonisation and Streamlining
Common arrangements for reporting, budgeting, accounting and
procurement system are often structured around one single
common pool fund / basket for the financing of the program.
However, ideal solutions are often costly, problematic and
demanding of government time.
Remember: we set out to reduce transaction costs.
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Harmonisation and Streamlining
 Which aspects of harmonisation are likely to bring the
greatest benefits in the short term?
 Agreed, government-led sector strategy and program as foundation
 Formal coordination framework - creates collective pressure /
incentives towards harmonisation
 Pooled funding of donors similar in outlook and approach
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Guiding Questions and
Proposed Agenda of Retreat
 Where do we currently stand in Tanzania? What are the current
challenges at the levels of sector reforms, monitoring, resource
mobilisation and implementation (capital, urban, rural)?
 How are we reacting individually to these challenges?
 How might we increase our impact by reacting jointly to these
challenges?
What can we contribute and what do we need from the
Government?
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