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Contents 1. INTRODUCTION ....................................................................................................................... 1

2. ACTIVITIES PLANNED FOR JANUARY TO MARCH 2019 ............................................................... 1

3. IMPLEMENTED ACTIVITIES AND ITS PROGRESS .......................................................................... 2

4. PERFORMANCE MEASUREMENT FRAMEWORK ....................................................................... 11

5.0 COLLABORATION AND NETWORKING .................................................................................... 11

6.0 CHALLENGES ........................................................................................................................... 18

7.0 WAY FORWARD ....................................................................................................................... 18

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ACRONYMS AAPC Agricultural Policy Conference

AATZ’s ActionAid Tanzania

AGRA Alliance for a Green Revolution in Africa

ASLMs Agriculture Sector Lead Ministries

AUC African Union Commission

BOT Bank of Tanzania

CCROs Certificate Customary Rights of Occupancy

EAC East Africa Community

ESRF Economic and Social Research Foundation

GDP Global Dairy Platform

ICNL International Centre for Not-for Profit Law

ILRI International Livestock Research Institute

JSR Joint Sector Review

JUWAVITA Jukwaa la Wazalishaji Vijijini Tanzania

MAI Multi Actors Integration

MITI Ministry of Industry Trade and Investment

MVIWAU Muungano wa Vikundi vya Wakulima, Wafugaji na Wavuvi Ukerewe

NBS National Bureau of Statistics

NPHMS National Post harvest management strategy

PAG Policy Analysis Group (PAG)

PASAAR-TZ Policy Advocacy to Strengthen and Accelerate Agricultural Reforms in

Tanzania

SAIRLA Sustainable Agricultural Intensification Research and Learning in Africa

SIP Strategy Implementation Plan

TCCIA Tanzania Chamber of Commerce, Industries and Agriculture

TCSAA Tanzania Climate Smart Agriculture Alliance

TLMP Tanzania Livestock Master Plan

TRA Tanzania Revenue Authority

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1. INTRODUCTION This report highlights the results of activities performed between January and March 2019 drawn

from the ANSAF Strategic Plan 2018-2022. The report picks from the results realized in 2018

under four major outcomes which are:

i. Outcome 1. Improved evidence-based decision making that affecting smallholder

producers

ii. Outcome 2. Increased responsiveness by duty bearers to voices of smallholder producers

iii. Outcome 3. Strengthened capacities of smallholder producers to operate as profitable

entities

iv. Outcome 4. Increased capacity of ANSAF to collaborate with members and non-member

in influencing agricultural policy and practices.

To achieve the above outcomes, ANSAF applies a set of approaches including social accountability

monitoring, policy and budget analysis, roundtables dialogues and media engagement.

2. ACTIVITIES PLANNED FOR JANUARY TO MARCH 2019 Activities were developed based on four work streams namely value chains, policy and budget

analysis; food and nutrition security; and youth and women. A total of nine activities were

planned under the value chains workstream but only four (44.4%) were executed. Fourteen

different activities were expected to be accomplished under policy and budget analysis but only

six (42.9%) were implemented. As for the food and nutrition workstream, three activities were

planned whereas two (66.7%) were implemented. Similarly, for the youth and women

workstream three interventions were planned and two (66.7%) were implemented.

Source: ANSAF data, Jan-March 2019

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Policy & Budget Analysis

Food & Nutrition Security

Youth & Women Engagement

Level of implementation of activities from January - March

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Overall, a total of 29 activities were planned and 14 (48.3%) were implemented. This means the

level of performance was slightly below 50%. However, there were other planned activities that

contributed to the attainment of ANSAF’s key outcomes but were not planned under any of the

four workstreams. Such activities included networking with other like-minded organizations.

networking events were 32 whereby five events involved direct engagement with the central

government (15.6%), five others with CSOs and research institutions (15.6%), three (9.4%) with

development partners and 19 engagements (59.4%) with the media. In this scenario, there was

significant engagement with the media followed by central government (particularly the

ministries of Agriculture and that of Livestock and Fisheries), other CSOs and research institutions

as well as the development partners at the bottom.

Source: ANSAF data, Jan-March 2019

Internally, ANSAF worked on resource mobilization, staff performance assessment and capacity

development. The Secretariat also worked with a consultant to sharpen the logical framework

indicators for the SP 2018-2022 and conducted in-house reflections and learning meetings on

team building.

3. IMPLEMENTED ACTIVITIES AND ITS PROGRESS 3.1 Value Chains

Under the “value chains” work stream, the Secretariat collaborated with members and

stakeholders in the sector to convene four meetings on the forum for rural producers, extension

services, up-scaling best practices on livestock, and support to the launch of the Tanzania

livestock master plan.

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Central Government

CSOs & Research Institutions

Development Partners

Media

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Level of engagement with key actors in the agriculture sector

Percentage of Engagement

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i. Coordination of JUWAVITA’s 5th members meeting

In January ANSAF convened the 5th members’ meeting

of “Jukwaa la Wazalishaji Vijijini Tanzania” (JUWAVITA)

which was preceded by a technical committee meeting.

The meeting reflected on the process and the launching

event held in November 2018. The members also

finalized the JUWAVITA joint annual statement and

annual action plan for 2019. The JUWAVITA’s focus for

2019 is on fisheries, livestock and crops where studies

will be conducted to generate evidence for advocacy as

well as strengthen the capacity of its members on

advocacy skills.

ii. Meeting with the Ministry of Agriculture to discuss on extension services

ANSAF Secretariat had a meeting with the Ministry of Agriculture (MoA) on improving the

ministry’s extensions services training unit. The intension is to support the Ward Agriculture

Resource Centers (WARCs) to become hubs of information for smallholder producers. ANSAF and

the Ministry aagreed to start with 17 WARCs in Bahi, Mpwapwa and Chamwno disricts in Dodoma

region; Iramba, Ikungi, Mkalama, Singida DC, Manyoni and Itigi in Singida region and Mbulu,

Simanjiro, Babati Town Council and Babati District Council in Manyara region. Three public

training centes were selected to provide refresher /tailor made courses for extension officers.

The selected training centres are Bihawana, Makutupora and Hombolo, all in Dodoma region. In

this arrangement, ANSAF will support the training part while the local government authorities

will furnish the WARCs and monitor performance.

iii. Livestock Policy Reflection Workshop

ANSAF in collaboration with Trust Africa conducted a two-day workshop to reflect, learn and

document lessons and best practices for scaling-up the Mifugo Forum. The purpose of the

workshop was to review the role of the Mifugo Forum and its communication and advocacy

strategy in advancing better policies for livestock development, to analyze the current research

being conducted by members of the forum to generate evidence to anchor advocacy agenda in

the country and identify key lessons learnt and propose practical recommendations for follow-

up actions, which will be used for future livestock policy advocacy and communication

programming and improve practice for future projects. Best Practice on Mifugo Forum as a multi-

stakeholder’s platform can be accessed here; Best Practice - Mifugo Forum.

Participants of the 5th JUWAVITA meeting held on 25th January 2019 at Nashera Hotel, Dodoma

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iv. Engagement of ANSAF in the launching of the Tanzania Livestock Master Plan (TLMP)

ANSAF has been working closely with the Ministry of Livestock and Fisheries (MLF) in implementing a project aimed at strengthening the livestock policy advocacy. In this regard, ANSAF supported the MLF in the preparations of the launching of Tanzania Livestock Master Plan, particularly in managing a media campaign (before, during and after the event), branding and printing copies of the Master Plan booklets and other communication materials for the event. Among the key note speakers at the event held on March 10th was the ANSAF Executive Director Mr Audax Rukonge. In his remarks, Rukonge highlighted the role of CSOs and different initiatives that ANSAF through Mifugo Forum has taken to contribute to the development of the livestock sector in Tanzania. He placed more emphasis on the need for stakeholders to review the existing livestock policy to reflect the present environment. He cited the ongoing study on Mapping of Private Sector Investment in the Livestock Sector in Tanzania as one of the initiatives that requires government back up.

In connection with the launch of the TLMP, the NLA worked with the coordinator of the

Research and Learning for Sustainable Intensification of smallholder livestock value chains to

produce a policy brief that contained policy recommendations for addressing critical

concerns in the livestock sector in Tanzania. In the policy brief, the NLA argued for the need

to strike a balance between livestock value chain development and environmental

protection. It proposes answers to the question “how can the trade-offs between increased

production and environmental impact be analysed and managed across different scales?”.

The project printed 100 copies of the policy brief and distributed to participants of the

Tanzania Livestock Master Plan launching ceremony held in Dar es Salaam. Key recipients of

the policy brief included the Minister for Livestock and Fisheries who was the guest of honour

at the TLMP launch, Minister for Lands, and representatives of Local Government Authorities

in Tanzania. At this occasion, the project coordinator Dr. Geofrey Soka and the NLA Lead

Facilitator Mr. Audax Rukonge secured an appointment with the Deputy Minister for

Livestock and Fisheries to have a detailed presentation about the livestock sector analysis

tool called CLEANED R.

Highlight of the progress/results under value chain workstream Increase in Cashew Processing

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Following the series of strategic meetings coordinated by ANSAF with Ministry of Industry

Trade and Investment, TCCIA, SIDO and smallscale cashew processors leaders from 14

district processors networks which forms national

association UWWKT Kitama cashew-farmers and

processors group were contracted by the

government to process cashew at their factory

allocated in Kitama-Tandahimba. For this year,

Kitama group received 45 tons of raw cashews.

Further to this SIDO Lindi and Ministry of Industry,

Trade and Investment visited WAKORU (small

scale cashew processors in Ruangwa) and Newala to assess the processing capacity before

contracted by the government to engage in processing of cashews this season.

Finalization of JUWAVITA joint annual statement and annual action plan for 2019

The members managed to sharpen the JUWAVITA joint annual statement and annual

action plan for 2019 which will be shared to the Agriculture Sector Lead Ministries and

Development Partners for resource mobilization, and collaboration.

3.2 Policy and budget analysis Activities under the policy and budget analysis work stream focused mainly on social

accountability monitoring, conferences on agriculture policy issues, progress on the Malabo

implementation, joint sector review processes, district-level budget analyses and social learning

on environmental, economic and sustainable agricultural intensification trade-offs.

i. Social Accountability Monitoring (SAM) interventions

ANSAF in collaboration with Muungano wa Vikundi vya Wakulima, Wafugaji na Wavuvi Ukerewe

(MVIWAU) organized a seven-day SAM training in Ukerewe whereby 13 participants (5 Female

and 8 Male) were trained. MVIWAU is the Vi-Agroforestry CSO partner based in Ukerewe. Prior

to this training, ANSAF conducted a one-day awareness raising meeting with the Ukerewe Council

Management Team on the concept of SAM and how it will help to improve the monitoring of

development programs in the district. This also served as a way of seeking their involvement to

provide support during SAM interventions in the district. This platform was also used to introduce

ANSAF and its core functions in the country apart from supporting SAM interventions via ALIVE

programme.

The aim of the SAM training was to empower citizens including smallholder producers’ women,

youth and the CSOs partner to encourage and inform them of their rights to actively participate

in development processes including decision making platforms and monitoring development

activities in their areas. The training ended with the action plan where the team visited two public

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funded projects in the district and done the analysis. The SAM team produced a report which

will be shared in a feedback meeting to be held in April 2019.

The key issue observed during these interventions

in Ukerewe was that the district lacked a strategic

plan, following the training topic (Strategic Plan)

SAM teams in collaboration with the CSO partner

(MVIWAU) decided to push forward this agenda to

other key stakeholders in the district on the

importance of having a District Strategic Plan and

that ANSAF will be ready to support the

development of this Strategy.

Further to this, ANSAF in collaboration with The Foundation for Civil Society (FCS) organized a

national reflection meeting which brought together cluster leaders implementing the social

accountability monitoring (SAM) and public expenditure tracking systems (PETS) programs with

the purpose of improving quality of service delivery at the local level. This meeting also served as

an avenue for compiling intervention report by clusters. The role of ANSAF as the agriculture

cluster leader was to lead the whole process of report writing using the FCS outcome results

collection template. Each cluster member shared evidence-based information on the outcome

that they had achieved for the year, 2018. Some of the notable achievements observed through

cluster model engagement, include:

• Increased resources tracking, accountability and transparency on the public resources’

expenditure

• Enhanced vertical and horizontal collaboration between cluster leader and cluster

members in influencing the changes at local and national level

• Increased awareness on the SAM and PETS to both local leaders and district councils.

ii. The 5th Annual Agricultural Policy Conference (AAPC)

ANSAF was a key player in the organization of the 5th Annual Agricultural Policy Conference

(AAPC) which was held in February 2019. With its role as the chair of the Policy Analysis Group

(PAG), ANSAF helped in the mobilization of resources and engagement with the Agriculture

Sector Lead Ministries (ASLMs). The theme of the conference was: “Prioritizing Agriculture in the

Industrialization Agenda for Tanzania under the Agricultural Sector Development Program

(ASDP2)”, the AAPC brought together over 150 participants from academia, research institutions,

policy-makers, advocacy groups and development practitioners from Tanzania and

internationally. The 5th AAPC intended to tackle value chain specific policies to deepen the

impact on food security, nutrition and job creation in Tanzania. Also, it aimed at tapping onto

Facilitator Mr Eria conducting training on SAM.

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existing efforts by the government including the recently launched ASDP-2 and inception of the

reforms under the Blueprint. Some key recommendations for the conference were:

Profiling of farmers and linking the farmers identification and National ID

Increase public investment in agriculture – through the national budget

The needs for firm alignment of national and sub-national policies, laws and regulations

Operationalization of contract farming

A clear strategy to respond to emerging opportunities including in non-traditional crops

Domestic fertilizer production through the promotion of private sector investment

Policy incentives for investment in agro-processing together with promotion of organic

manure, liming etc.

iii. CAADP/ Malabo implementation progress

ANSAF in collaboration with Ministry of Agriculture (MoA)-CAADP Focal Unit and AGRA held a

meeting to discuss the best approach for implementing the project dubbed “Policy Advocacy to

Strengthen and Accelerate Agricultural Reforms in Tanzania (PASAAR-TZ)”. The discussion

centered on formalization of partnership and collaboration in CAADP/Malabo targets

implementation. Thus, three main activities were strategized that included: strengthening the

information systems for Biennial Review Reporting (BRR) process; facilitating national dialogues

to advocate for trade policy reforms and alignment of policy to improve interregional trade; and

supporting the technical workshops for validation of BRR to stakeholders before submission to

East Africa Community/African Union Commission (EAC/AUC).

iv. Joint Sector Review (JSR)

ANSAF is among the technical team engaged in data collection and filling the country

performance template by the African Union Commission. Currently, about 43% of new indicators

have been filled. However, there are issues lingering around activity implementation, which

include: (i) challenges in both voluntary data collection from government institutions and

availability of authenticated information. The government recognizes only data generated by

public institutions (e.g. NBS, BOT, TRA, etc). The information from FAO, WB and other

international research institutions need to get consultation from NBS before being used to report

for country’s performance on agriculture, (ii) the commitment is needed from the ministry of

agriculture to coordinate for data collection, (iii) information from Zanzibar is most likely again

not to be incorporated into a comprehensive United Republic of Tanzania performance template.

v. Budget analysis exercise in Kilolo District

With the support of the SAIRLA project, ANSAF engaged a consultant to undertake a budget

analysis for Kilolo District Council. The analysis conducted between February 25 and 28 covered

the period from 2013/14 to 2017/18. The objective of the study was to establish the level of

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public investment into three key social groups namely women, youth and people with disabilities.

Although the two first groups are the majority, they are the ones that are given less attention.

For women, the predetermined cultural roles and the triple gender roles increases their burden.

Youth struggle with negative mindsets on agriculture and they are interested in getting quick

results. Specifically, the study aimed at identifying the amount of budget allocated to agriculture

in the last five years from 2013/14 to 2017/2018. Then to find out whether the legally agreed

10% from the Council’s own source is going to women, youth and people with disabilities. The

consultant is analyzing the data and the full report will be submitted to ANSAF.

vi. Social learning workshop on the District Council Agricultural Budget and Socio-

Ecological Trade-offs in Mbarali

Findings of the Mbarali District Council budget analysis covering the FY 2013/2014 through 2017/2018 were presented on March in Mbarali. The findings identified the amount of budget allocated to agriculture for the last five years for each of the District Council’s four main sources. It also revealed the level of implementation of the central government guidelines on 20% and 10% budget allocation from the Council’s own revenue sources to agriculture on the one part, and special development fund for youth, women and people with disabilities respectively on the other part. During the meeting, a presentation about the trade-offs analysis tool was made by the Sokoine University of Agriculture. The social learning workshop was attended by 33 participants from the regional level, district officials, farmers, media, research institutions and the SAIRLA facilitation team. Challenges for financing women and youth projects were identified.

Highlight of the progress/results under Policy and budget analysis workstream

ANSAF hosted Swedish CSO’s Delegation Mission in Tanzania

Following ANSAF intervention on Social Accountability in Mara region under ALIVE programme,

a delegation of 14 representatives from 14 Swedish CSOs led by ViAgroforestry Regional

Coordinator paid a visit to ANSAF for learning about ANSAF’s advocacy work. The Executive

Director led the discussion and presented the highlights on ANSAF’s experience in policy

advocacy interventions in Tanzania and

in the region. They were impressed on

how ANSAF manages to influence

policies for improving agricultural sector

in Tanzania particularly on evidence

generation to support the agenda. The

same delegation had a one-day meeting

with various CSOs working in

development sector in Tanzania and

ANSAF was represented by the

Executive Director and Head of Media and Communications Department.

Group photo of the delegates at ANSAF Office

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3.3 Food and nutrition security

Food and nutrition security are two interlinked concepts within the same work stream. It hovers

issues related to postharvest management and factors that affect production, climate change

being one of them. Two activities were implemented under this work stream.

i. Development of the strategy implementation plan (SIP) for the National PHM

strategy.

With its role as a secretariat of the task force for developing the National Post harvest

management strategy (NPHMS) ANSAF organized the technical workshop to draft the Strategy

Implementation Plan (SIP) for the NPHMS with financial support from HELVETAS and ESRF. ANSAF

also provided technical expertise to the process as the member of the technical team. The other

members of the team include Prime Minister’s Office (PMO), the Ministry of Agriculture (MoA),

Ministry of Industry Trade and Investment (MITI), HELVETAS Swiss Intercooperation and

Economic and Social Research Foundation (ESRF). The development of the SIP is ongoing.

ii. Climate Change

ANSAF has engaged a consultant, Dr. Hepelwa from the University of Dar es salaam college of

Agriculture to conduct analysis of the Climate Change Strategy (2012) and Environmental

Protection Act (2004). From this analysis ANSAF, is planned to analyze the policy gaps that need

to be addressed via stakeholders’ meetings. Apart from the two analysis reports, two policy briefs

will be developed and will be shared along with the analysis report.

Highlight of the progress on the food and nutrition security

Registration of TPMP

In February the TPMP was fully registered under BRELA as a Company Limited by Guarantee.

Furthermore, the first draft of the SIP for TPMP was produced and will be shared to PHM

stakeholders for input and comments before finalization.

Development of Strategy Implementation Plan (SIP) for the NPHMS

Following the series of technical meetings for the development of the Strategy Implementation

Plan (SIP) for the NPHMS conducted, a draft SIP was developed and the consultative meetings

for gathering inputs/comments from stakeholders to finalize the SIP is underway.

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3.4 Youth and women

Under this work stream the main focus was to assess public financing into youth and women

activities and gender related issues.

i. Research on LGA’s Allocation of 10 % from own source to Support Youth, Women and

People with Disabilities

ANSAF in collaboration with the Ministry of Agriculture, Ministry of Livestock and Fisheries,

National bureau of Statistics, President Office-Regional Administrative and Local Governance

commissioned a consultant to conduct study on the LGA’s capacity to mobilize their own financial

sources allocate and realize 10 percent to women, youth and people with disabilities. The study

was preceded by a capacity building training to 10

ANSAF members on a data collection tool and best

practices, analysis, presentation and reporting for

them to support the consultant to gather

information from 25 districts in five zones; Lake zone

(MVIWATA Kagera and ADLG); Northern Highlands

(CafeAfrica and Hakikazi) Northern Zone (AMSHA,

TAFA and UPT), Southern Highland (RUDI and

MIICO) and Central Zone (PELUMTanzania). The

validation meetings for the research findings are

underway.

ii. Household road map gender training

ANSAF participated on the household road map gender training organized by the VI agroforestry regional office to all members implementing the ALIVE program. The training focused on gender equity at the household to organization level. Different tools were used to analyze various roles men and women play in the community, tools like the 24 hours clock, the vision map, gender role tree and the leadership empowerment tools. The area of emphasis was on gender audits at the organization level, where it was insisted to not only report on figures for women participation in our activities but also, report on the level/degree of participation and how they influence decisions in our gatherings, be it trainings, workshops or meetings. The training aims to improve the level of participation by women in decision making within development issues in their areas, it also aims to build capacity to program implementers for better techniques/approaches to ensure active participation of women in the decision-making process.

Juster Emilian from MIICO in Mbeya conducting data collection with a youth group

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4. PERFORMANCE MEASUREMENT FRAMEWORK Core partners continued to provide technical support on sharpening the 2018-2022 Strategic Plan

Logical Framework. Further to this a consultant was commissioned to develop the layout of the

baseline survey include the reviewing of SP indicators, key policy issues to be addressed by SP

2018-2022, perform general analysis of the type of information to be collected and method of

data collection and analysis as well as how to integrate Members into the process. The layout

report was completed and the process for data collection will start from May 2019. The final log

frame and key policy issues is available here.

5.0 COLLABORATION AND NETWORKING i. Participation in the development of the Programme Implementation Manual (PIM) of

the ASDP2

The government launched a 10-year national agriculture sector development programme

(ASDP2) in May 2018. Through this programme the government intends to transform the

agricultural sector (crops, livestock & fisheries) towards higher productivity, commercialization

level and increase smallholder farmer income for improved livelihood, food security and

nutrition. The programme implementation arrangements focus on involving various stakeholders

especially private sector and non-state ac tors. The government embarked on the development

of the ASDP2 implementation manual in January 2019 whereby ANSAF, TPSF and ACT were

invited to provide input on the component four which covers the issues of the sector enablers,

coordination, monitoring and evaluation together with the involvement of the private sector. The

main role for ANSAF was to propose activities, implementing partners and how the private sector

investment can be promoted and tracked.

ii. Participate in the workshop to refine the M&E framework for the ASDPII.

ANSAF was invited to participate in a team of experts to refine the M&E framework for the ASDPII

to represent Private sector and CSOs. The members of the team came from the Agriculture Sector

Lead Ministries (ASLMs) and ESRF. The team was working to address comments from the

consultant who identified some areas of improvement from the draft M&E framework. Some of

the areas identified are; Baseline values are missing whereby the existing indicators table shows

significant missing baseline values, the Results Framework lacks sufficient details, a detailed M&E

operational plan for ASDPII needs to be developed; As result, the team came up with the action

plan on how to address the identified gaps and a draft revised M&E framework.

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iii. Multi stakeholders conference organized by the Commission for Human Rights and

Good Governance in Dodoma

ANSAF participated in the multi stakeholders conference organized by the Commission for

Human Rights and Good Governance in Dodoma. The Conference aims to introduce the concept

of business and human rights, where the area of emphasis was to ensure the adherence to human

rights at the work place. From the conference various case studies on labour rights at work place,

including from the fishery industry in Mwanza and the floral industry were shared. It was

emphasized that all CSOs should comply with the concept of Human rights and be good

ambassadors to other stakeholders in their portfolio. At the end, participants had a discussion on

the theme that CHRAGG will use for the year 2019, where four themes were proposed which

were; Land rights, Labor matters, Tax regime and Environment protection issues which later Land

rights got majority votes to be theme for CHRAGG for 2019.

iv. Participation in the Multi Actor Integration (MAI)

ANSAF attended the Multi Actors Integration (MAI) Annual Review meeting organized by the

Tanzania Chamber of Commerce, Industries and Agriculture (TCCIA) in Iringa on 14th February,

2019. The meeting reviewed progress of the integration project activities and the sustainability

of MAI beyond the BEST Dialogue funding. The meeting resolved that MAI stakeholders will

continue to implement the project activities which was funded by BEST Dialogue and others

activities in Southern Highlands while TCCIA will submit funding proposals to other donors who

might be interested to support the integration concept.

v. AcT2 Program Partners’ meeting

On January 24 KPMG convened a meeting of communication specialists from the AcT2 programme partner organizations. The objectives of the meeting were: to strengthen relationships between AcT2 partners and media houses; and to allow communication specialists to share their plans for 2019. ANSAF was represented in the meeting. During the meeting, DFID presented their experience on how they manage media and communication campaigns.

vi. SDC visioning workshop

The Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation (SDC) organized a four-day “Visioning

workshop” to map future key development issues for Tanzania and strategic options for SDC.

ANSAF attended the workshop. The SDC is in the process of extending its cooperation strategy

beyond 2020. The push to revisit the SDC’s engagement in Tanzania resulted from i) the 2030

Agenda - that is asking for stronger alignment of development cooperation and more targeted

interventions and a better integration of private and civil society sectors; ii) Tanzania’s political

development context that is asking for more aligned partnerships to its five-year development

strategy; and iii) of regional dynamics that aim to enhance economic, social and cultural

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partnerships among the neighbouring countries. Dr. Donald Mmari from REPOA delivered a key

note speech focusing on strategic reflection for future policy actions. The workshop was

concluded with clear messages that the government of Switzerland will continue working in

Tanzania. SDC and partners—ANSAF is among the partners—agreed to build strong institutions

to end the dependency, build transformative leadership, increase food and nutrition security as

well as capture social learnings. The future thematic key areas of the SDC

portfolio will be

Giving people, particularly vulnerable and marginal groups, a civic voice, empower

citizens to articulate their interests and participate in political, social and economic life;

shaping fields and issues that affect them;

Providing and improving education (particularly basic and vocational) as the foundation

of all other fields;

Creating employment and income (i.e. jobs); and

Strengthening the agricultural sector and promoting food production/ security.

vii. Participation on the Participatory Review and Reflection Process (PRRP) 2018

organized by ActionAid Tanzania

ANSAF participated on annual national level Participatory Review and Reflection Process (PRRP)

2018 organized by ActionAid Tanzania aimed to

reviewing the organization’s annual performance,

capturing impacts of AATZ’s work and agreeing on

subsequent year plan of action. The event brought

together AATZ’s staff, communities, partners and

other stakeholders who jointly reviewed

achievements, failures, challenges and lessons for the

future.

During the event, ActionAid presented the overall

organizational work and the 2018 programs

implementation report depicting achievements,

challenges and lessons learnt followed by reflections

and discussions in small groups. Apart from

presentations, participants also had a gallery walk to learn more about AATZ work and pictorial

presentation posted on walls. Community representatives from Mafia, Pemba, Kilwa, Unguja,

Tandahimba and Chamwino shared their testimonies on the impact of AATZ’s 2018 interventions

in their areas.

Education Manager AAT Mr. Karoli briefing on programme activities.

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viii. Participation on the Media Law Advocacy workshop

ANSAF participated on the Media Law Advocacy workshop which was organized by MISA TAN in

collaboration with ICNL. The workshop brought together media stakeholders and human right

defendants to discuss the progress on freedom of

expression and media as enshrined in the

Constitution of United of Tanzania and international

conventions. Five topics were covered during the

workshop including Media laws: global and regional

trends; International legal and policy framework

affecting the media; Legal framework affecting

media in Tanzania; Synthesizing international law

and Tanzanian law together with an overview of key

lessons from the training. After the workshop,

participants agreed on the need for engaging strategic stakeholders, forming alliances and

engage policy makers and political powers in finding solutions. Also Members of Parliament

should be engaged to champion for the desired policy change by giving them tools when they

raise such issues.

ix. Participation in the roundtable meeting on developing the dairy sub-sector in Tanzania

NMB Bank PLC in collaboration with Global Dairy

Platform (GDP), the Ministry of Livestock and

Fisheries, Rabo Partnership and International

Livestock Research Institute (ILRI) organised a

conference with the theme ‘Creating a

Sustainable, Competitive & Visionary Tanzanian

Diary Subsector’. It provided space for experts

to share successful experiences on the

importance of dairy in poverty alleviation,

combating malnutrition and economic

development”.

Speaking at the round table meeting, the

Minister for Livestock and Fisheries Hon. Luhaga Mpina said that, “The experiences from

participants provided unique insight into issues affecting the sector and ideas on how to develop

within the framework of existing plans and policies that can better support the industry”. ANSAF

is among the leading champions in advocating sustainable livestock policies in Tanzania through

the “Strengthening the Livestock Policy Advocacy Project” funded by Bill and Melinda Gates

Foundation through Trust Africa.

The Minister for livestock and Fisheries, Hon Luhaga Mpina on his opening remark.

Group photo for participants from CSOs, media Institutions, law companies and high learning institutions.

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x. ANSAF to host the Climate Agriculture Alliance

On February 15, the Steering Committee (SC) of the Tanzania Climate Smart Agriculture Alliance

(TCSAA) appointed ANSAF to host the Alliance Secretariat of the TCSAA.

Since its inception in March 2018, the TCSAA interim secretariat was hosted by the Ministry of

Agriculture in Dodoma. The mandate of the host organization will be to facilitate the recruitment

of the TCSAA Coordinator, provide an office space and support the early stages of formalization

of the platform. This agreement was reached at a meeting of the SC held at CARE International

Offices in Dar es Salaam. Other roles of the host organization will be to assist the newly formed

TCSAA in initial resource mobilization. ANSAF has pledged £2,000 (TZS6,000,000) drawn from the

Sustainable Agricultural Intensification Research and Learning Alliance (SAIRLA) project. The

TCSAA is a promising home for sustainable agricultural intensification agenda.

xi. Participation on Research Findings Validation meetings organized by AGRA

ANSAF as a member of Steering Committee (SC) established by the Alliance for a Green

Revolution in Africa (AGRA) participated on a validation meeting which aimed at providing a

joint/participatory oversight on results delivered by organizations supported through PiATA TIJA

project. The focus was on how the smallholder farmers (SHFs) can benefit from the interventions

conducted. Some key recommendations included: (i) income for SHPs depends on linkages of

their products to the markets. Thus, farmers product prices need to be derived by market forces

in order to have productivity in farming; (ii) there must be linkages of SMEs to financial

institutions and linking off-takers to aggregation centres, (iii) product diversification can help

farmers in the income stabilization; (iv) adopting PHM technologies should have value addition

to SHPs. Therefore, market access is a key driver for adoption of new technologies and

innovation. Addressing all these were recognized as essential to transforming agriculture and

hence make the country achieve full food security and contribute to economic transformation.

Moreover, ANSAF participated in a research finding dissemination validation for the study

conducted by IPSOS, which asserted that postharvest grain loss (PHL) remains a significant barrier

to smallholder household food security and increased incomes across Tanzania. Thus, there are

many programs that seek to reduce postharvest losses in Tanzania, for instance in maize value

chain by half (50%). According to the research, this level can be attained if and only if: there is a

linking surplus maize producer to input suppliers and output buyers; aggregating and training

farmers; improving access to finance; linking entrepreneurs with manufacturers of technologies

and supporting prioritization of loss reduction by value chain actors. Despite the past study by

FAO which indicated that PHLs in Sub-Saharan African are still very high, this specific study

revealed that for the sample surveyed conducted in Tanzania, the southern highlands in

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particular, the level of PHL is about 7%. Based on this general finding, there is a need to conduct

a country survey to determine the actual level of PHL

xii. Tanzania Land Tenure Dialogue Meeting

ANSAF participated in a dialogue meeting

organized by the African Natural Resources

Centre and Agriculture & Agro-Industry

Departments of the African Development

Bank to discuss on the Land Tenure System

Report for Tanzania. The objective of the

Land Tenure study was to identify and

analyse the challenges and opportunities

that land tenure systems present for

agricultural transformation. The opening

remarks were delivered by the permanent

secretary for Ministry of Lands, Housing and

Human Settlements Development Ms Dorothy Mwanyika who highlighted that, about 80 percent

of the general and village land in Tanzania is yet to be planned and surveyed which has

culminated into limited security of land tenure and as a disincentive to land based investments.

At the end of the meeting, it was suggested that there is need to support the government to scale

up land use plan, assurance of CCROs, strengthening of the land tenure system; capacity building

and dialogues.

xiii. ICRAF on trade-offs analysis tool

On the 31s January, ICRAF invited ANSAF to participate at a workshop to reflect on the

achievements of the project being implemented in Mbarali District with the view to

understanding the trade-offs associated with the sustainable agricultural intensification (SAI) and

how information on these trade-offs can be displayed and accessed. The key objectives were to

enhance awareness of and capacity for conducting socio-ecological trade-offs in assessing SAI

interventions; introduce the SAI Dashboard for Tanzania and promote interaction with SAI

evidence; and raise awareness on bringing trade-off analyses into cross-sectoral planning and

decision-making processes for SAI interventions.

xiv. ANSAF collaboration with Media House

Interview with Mwananchi newspaper on sugar importation

On February 13, the Mwananchi newspaper quoted ANSAF Executive Secretary commending the

government for lifting the ban on sugar importation. Read more here.

Group photo for participants during Land Tenure System dialogue.

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Interview with Mwananchi on the establishment of the CSO desk

ANSAF continued to appear in media including participating in live TV talk shows, radio interviews

and quoted by newspapers. The Mwananchi newspaper (14th March) quoted the Executive

Director of ANSAF when he commended the government for establishing a CSO desk at the

Ministry of Livestock and Fisheries.

Interview with Mlimani FM Radio on youth programs

On March 30th a member of the ANSAF Secretariat participated in the Digital Voice program at

Mlimani Radio. The Digital Voice is the youth program with a 10-minute segment called Tit-for-

Tat with the aim of raising different topics to be responded by an expert on the matter.

Fortunately, the topic for the day was on “How agriculture contributes to Climate Change”.

ANSAF staff were invited experts who explained the way agricultural activities contribute to

climate change and how best this can be mitigated/minimized.

Airing a series of radio programs on cotton production and marketing

ANSAF supported one of the IBER students to produce two radio programs featuring cotton value

chain in Mwanza region. The first program focused on access to extension services while the

other one dealt with challenges facing cotton farmers to access quality inputs. The program was

later aired by four community radio stations in the region.

Media campaign to promote the livestock sector

ANSAF engaged rigorously with various media outlets before and after the launch of the Tanzania Livestock Master Plan. The Secretariat and ANSAF members who are active in the livestock value chain participated in live TV talk shows, radio and newspapers interviews. The livestock sector attracted more coverage than the rest of the domains. This was due to a media campaign launched by ANSAF in collaboration with TrustAfrica to promote the sector. There were eight TV programs, three radio programs and four newspaper articles on livestock alone. Specific issues covered included the launch of the Tanzania Livestock Master Plan, dairy sub sector and Tanzania’s industrialization agenda. Some of the media online reports can be accessed through the following links: https://bit.ly/2TrFMDT; https://bit.ly/2IOOHtn and https://bit.ly/2VAiTOJ

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6.0 CHALLENGES The level of implementation was generally below 50% due to delayed approval of funding by core

donors. Until the end of the first quarter, only vertical projects were being implemented. In

addition, major evidence collection activities were delayed due to late approval by the National

Bureau of Statistics. Furthermore, the Chief Auditor General (CAG) reports were disputed by

politicians, making it difficult to discuss them due to differing viewpoints.

7.0 WAY FORWARD Following the SAM interventions held in Ukerewe District, ANSAF plan to provide technical

support the district particularly to develop its Strategic Plan as requested by the district official

during SAM analysis exercise. Moreover, ANSAF plan to working in collaboration with the

Ministry of Livestock and Fisheries in developing the implementation strategy for Tanzania

Livestock Master Plan following the request from the ministry during the launching were NSAs

working on livestock sector urged to participate.

The Secretariat has reviewed the plans and budget to compensate the lost time due to various

reasons. It is anticipated that the second quarter will be the busier time of the year.