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Strategy for mobilizing funds for agricultural
census Tanzania Experience
By Lubili Marco Gambamala National Bureau of
Statistics
97.7 of smallholder agric rural households use
hand hoe, 2002/03 Agric Sample Census
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• Contents
• Background
• Why conduct Agriculture Surveys and Censuses?
  Regional Estimates Vs District Estimates
• Soliciting Funds for Agriculture Surveys and
  Censuses?
• User Producer Dialogues
• Dissemination Workshops
• Timely Production of Reports and quality
  statistics
• Methodology used to collect the information
• Adoption and use of new and modern technologies
• Conclusion and Recommendations

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1. Introduction

• Most developing countries have recently expressed
  their commitment to their countries economic
  reforms.
• laying out strategies aiming at reduction of
  poverty and creation of wealth
• Managing their economic reforms in partnership
  with development agencies, because of lack of
  resources
• In Tanzania, agriculture plays a significant role
  in employment as well as in wealth creation
• Agriculture sector development be given a
  foremost important priority by developing
  countries in terms of development, resource
  allocation, planning and measurement of outcomes.
  
• In Tanzania a vision 2025 Poverty Monitoring
  Master Plan strategy has been formulated.
• planned a series of censuses and surveys to
  assist in policy formulation, planning and to
  track changes

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2. Why conduct Agriculture Surveys and Censuses?
Regional Estimates Vs District Estimates

• In Tanzania and most developing countries a
  sample survey with regional estimate is cheaper
  to undertake than a Sample Survey with District
  estimates, the following reasons justifies why a
  sample survey with district estimates is
  desirable than the one with regional estimates
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• Local Government Reform Programs, government
  decentralization Program, the ASDP Need for
  timely, reliable and regular Statistics
• due to the requirement of district estimates and
  the need for a wider dataset the cost of these
  surveys became too much to conduct annually,
  decided to carry out a comprehensive Agriculture
  Survey every 5 years instead.

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2. Soliciting Funds for Agriculture Surveys and
Censuses?

• It is important to note that surveys and census
  in particular are resource intensive and most
  developing countries cannot fund these exercises
  from their own resources. In Tanzania
  particularly funding for Agriculture Surveys and
  Censuses has been through the poverty monitoring
  master plan, a program which draws funds from
  development partners and the Government. Below
  are the strategies used to solicit funds for
  Agriculture Surveys.

User Producer Dialogue In Tanzania these
dialogues are normally done during the initial
planning stage of Agriculture Surveys/Census to
understand the actual requirement of the users of
the survey results and during the dissemination
process to find out whether the requested demands
have been addressed adequately.
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Dissemination Workshops In Tanzania Dissemination
workshops are done to inform the Government,
donor community, development partners and the
General Public of the results obtained from
Agriculture Surveys and Censuses. This is a
feedback mechanism and tries to inform
specifically the donors about the results
obtained from the exercise.
Timely Production of Reports and quality
statistics It is very important to timely produce
the intended set of reports so that users could
utilize the information timely and efficiently.
This increases the confidence of the users to the
producers and this is likely to attract the
willingness of the policy makers (users) to
provide funds for Agriculture Surveys and
Censuses.
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• Methodology used to collect the information
• The methodology used to undertake Agriculture
  Surveys and Censuses in Tanzania is a subjective
  method.
• That is carrying out direct interviews with
  respondents in order to complete the survey
  questionnaires.
• In early 90s Tanzania used to carry out
  Agriculture Surveys and Censuses by using the
  Objective measurement method.
• But later a study which was conducted by
  experienced Agricultural Statisticians
  recommended that subjective survey method was
  cheaper in terms of cost and easy to manage than
  objective survey method.
• Since then Tanzania adopted the subjective method
  and it has proved to produce reliable, timely and
  cost effective results than objective measurement.

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• Adoption and use of new and modern technologies
• The 2002/03 Tanzania Agriculture Census used OCR
  Scanning technology for capturing the data from
  the questionnaires .
• The same technology has been used for the 2007/8
  Agriculture Sample Census.
• This technology is cheaper and has minimum data
  capture errors compared to manual Data entry.
• Use of this technology also helps to reduce the
  Agriculture Sample Census budget estimates and
  therefore make the funding exercise affordable to
  Donors.

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• Conclusion and Recommendation
• The design of a poverty monitoring master plan
  should set coherent work programme , making sure
  that costing of the programme is done properly
  and ensuring sufficient funds for agriculture
  surveys.
• Country level producer user dialogue be
  encourages as a feedback mechanism to the users
  and donors
• Countries should adopt the use of cost effective
  data collection and processing methodologies
• Data Producers should develop the spirit of
  timely production of Agriculture Census reports,

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