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Improving Agriculture Statistics in United Republic of Tanzania - GCP/URT/145/IRE

Year of publication 2019

Place of publication Rome, Italy ;

Pages 2p.

Publisher FAO ;

Product type Project

Edition 1

Synopsis (short abstract) An analysis of the agricultural statistics system of the United Republic ofTanzania revealed weaknesses caused by the decentralization ofadministration and the delivery of services at district level. These ledto low awareness among district-level management of the importanceof evidence-based policy and data use, and to a lack of control of datacollection and reporting at district level from ministries and statisticsoffices in both Tanzania Mainland and Zanzibar. The Agriculture StatisticsStrategic Plan (ASSP) noted that more accurate data were needed at districtlevel, for decision-making, planning, resource allocation and the monitoringof results by local authorities. A project was proposed to develop and applysmall area estimates (SAE) methods in Tanzania Mainland in order to makedistrict-level estimates of key production variables. There was also a needto sensitize local authority staff to the benefits of evidence-basedpolicy-making and to train them in the basic analysis and use of statisticsfor decision-making and the monitoring of policy implementation.The objective of the project was thus to develop and pilot district-levelagricultural data estimates using appropriate SAE methods.

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