CPA
Desk Officer from the Parliament of Tanzania Mr. said Yakubu giving some
introductory note before the start of the workshop
Prof.
Mark Baskin from the State University of New York giving his Opening remarks to
the delegates of the Constituency Development Fund Workshop
Chairperson
of CPA Tanzania Branch, Hon. Mussa Azzan Zungu giving is welcoming remarks to
the delegates of the Constituency Development Fund Workshop
Hon.
Dr. Faustine Ndugulile (Mp) from Tanzania giving his experience on the
Constituency Development Catalyst Fund from Tanzania to the delegates of
Constituency Development Fund Workshop
Ho.
John Shibuda (Mps) sharing his experience on how the fund from the Constituency
Development Fund has enabled to implement some of the development in his
constituency
Hon.
Emmanuel Kwasi Bedzrah (Mp) from Ghana giving his experience from Ghana
Hon.
David Ethuro (Mp) from Kenya sharing some statistics of funding from the
Constituency Development Fund in Kenya and how has improves peoples life in
Kenya
Experience
from Uganda by Hon. Ibi Ekwau Florence
Delegates
of the Constituency Development Fund Workshop listening to the welcoming
remarks
Delegates
of the Constituency Development Fund Workshop listening to the welcoming remarks
Delegates
of the Constituency Development Fund Workshop listening to the welcoming
remarks
Members
of the Constituency Development Fund
Workshop in a Group photo.Photos by Owen Mwandumbya
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By Owen Mwandumbya, Dar es
Salaam
The parliament of Tanzania, is
hosting a 2 days workshop for the members of the Parliament from Africa to
deliberate some of the key issues on strengthening the Constituency development
Funds (CDF) available in Africa.
The workshop which started today
and will end on 11th October,2012 is organized by the CPA
International for the Mps to build on the guidelines for the Constituency Development
Funds in Africa by developing a toolkit for the CDF participatory mechanism and
designing a framework for a comprehensive CDF toolbox that will assist Mps in
making CDF more responsive to community needs.
On his opening remark on behalf
of the CPA International the Deputy chairperson of the standing committee of
foreign affairs and security of the parliament of Tanzania,Hon.Mussa Azzan Zungu who is also the
chairperson of CPA Tanzania Branch,said the workshop is very important at this
time as it geared to build on principles and guidelines and move toward to the
creation of the CDF toolbox that will assist parliamentarians to ensure that
CDFs are more responsive to the communities.
He said “ the two days workshop
will give us an opportunity to have robust discussions on the issues as they
apply to your particular branch and the broader world context”
The key issue, which were
discussed during the workshop was the issues of having the proper rules and
procedure on managing the funds, participation of Citizenships, tendering and
contracting of implementing projects , implementations and operation,
monitoring evaluation and auditing of all the projects in the constituency for
the aimed at making the CDF more successful by making citizenship and the Media
more engaged at all level.
Also in the discussing issues
arose during the first day of deliberationas to whether the CDF is
costitutional or not due to the fact that it gives an Mp“Power of the
purse”to spend money as opposed to his three basic function of
representation,
oversight and legislating
The workshop host’s Mps from,
Tanzania, Malawi, Zambia,Kenya,Ghana,Nigeria, Uganda and facilitators from
USA Suny University,University of Dar es Salaam and CDF Board Kenya.
Giving his comment, Mp from
Tanzania Hon. Dr. Faustine Ndungulile, said despite of the Fund to be more extremely useful and has improved the
communities’ efforts and initiatives toward the successful implementation of
the development projects to their benefits and to the interests of the Nation
at large, the are still some
challenges toward implementation of the CDF owing the fact that the
demand for funding development projects is considerably higher than the
actual funds released.
He
emphasizes that “The Fund and the system itself
in general faces the main challenges of
diversification of the funds to the other projects which were
not identified and planned by the community and underfunding of the projects,
that is to say the amount of funds allocated to the constituencies is less than
the costs of the projects available”
He further elaborated that, in
Tanzania, the CDF is called the Constituency Development Catalyst Fund and it
was established by the Constituency Development Catalyst Fund Act No. 16 of
2009 to provide among other thing allocation and orderly disbursement of fund
to the constituencies for the purpose of supplementing other existing funding
arrangements to development projects within the constituencies.
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