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| Wednesday, 25 August 2010 10:08 |
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Donors who want to access how their funds have been utilized have no need to go to the ministries headquarter as they can now access the information online. This will be possible following the establishment of a special database to cater for the same. The database will contain data on donor funds, their flow and how they had been utilised. This had been done as an effort of curbing the challenges associated with recording of aid information, whereby the government in collaboration with development partners decided to adopt the system, aiming at improving data recording on aid flow to this country. This was said yesterday by the Permanent Secretary of the Ministry of Finance and Economic Affairs, Mr Ramadhani Khijjah when launching the Aids Management Platform (AMP) System. “This will help donors to identify how much the ministry has been given and how the fund has been utilised, this will put the government in the safe side basing on the follow-up of the funds,” said Mr Khijjah. He said that the database would enhance donor confidence in the government systems through transparent data recording and reporting system. The overall objective of the database is to strengthen Government capacity to manage and coordinate development assistance effectively while at the same time it will enhance transparency and accountability by introducing broad access to a data repository on development assistance. The database also is expected to reduce duplication of effort and transaction costs associated with data collection and processing while he added that up to now a about 1200 projects have been entered into the AMP system with the help of the Development partners and the government who verified the data. Dor his part, United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) Resident Representative, Mr Alberic Kacou, said the database would provide a full picture concerning how the country exploits the aid. “We had also seen the importance of these reports, not only to the government itself but also to the public at large. This will offer more transparency for the donors also, though we are confident that’s why we financed the training regarding this,” said Mr Kacou. In the meantime, the government has assured the majority of Tanzanians that it will not forget them in providing them with information concerning donor funded projects. Despite the launching of the AMP, the government would also continue with its normal schedule of producing quarterly reports regarding the same. “We had not segregated those who cannot access computers, rather we will continue with our routine of producing the reports, which will also be published in newspapers,” said Mr Khijjah. He also added that the reports will be found at the ministry’s head quarters as it was before, so he urged the general public not to worry as they will not miss the reports. Concerning other people who can access computer services, Mr Khijjah said that there will be a specific link to cater for them, “This will be done carefully, as the general public will have an access to the stored data, but to avoid adulteration of the data, the authorised people will have direct access with these data,” he added. Add this page to your favorite Social Bookmarking websites           |
