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    The effectiveness of monitoring and evaluation in managing community projects in Tanzania: a case of TASAF III conditional cash transfer programme in Bagamoyo district, Coast region
    (University of Dar es Salaam, 2015) Amiri, Fatuma
    The main objective of the study was to examine the role of Monitoring and Evaluation (M&E) in ensuring the success of Conditional Cash Transfer Programme (CCTP) of TASAF III community projects in Bagamoyo district. Specifically, it examined the designed and actual approaches used by TASAF III Cash Transfer Programme to support poor families and the designed TASAF’s Monitoring and Evaluation system to ensure the success of the programme. It also evaluated the way TASAF implemented Monitoring and Evaluation on the programme. The study employed a qualitative research design and used both secondary and primary data to establish the effectiveness of monitoring and evaluation of the cash transfer programme. Both in depth interviews and Focus Group Discussions were used to collect primary data in Three wards and A total of 100 respondents were included in the study. The study findings reveal that the program properly targeted the intended beneficiaries. People who were excluded were either not properly qualified according to the criteria used by TASAF or had not attended the sub - Village assemblies that were held to identify the poor families. TASAF operated through ward level, Community Member Committees (CMCs) and other grassroots leader in implementing the project. Two types of cash of payment were made to the poor families, namely (i) basic cash payment to beneficiary that varied with family dependency ratio and (ii) conditional cash payment to a beneficiary upon supply of labour to a community project. Beneficiaries complained about the delayed payments of labour supplied to the community projects. Moreover, the study found that the M&E teams were not visiting the beneficiaries the way it was designed. TASAF Monitoring and Evaluation was not participatory as the way it was designed; the M&E visited only the leaders and not beneficiaries. This resulted into ineffective implementation because beneficiaries’ problems were not solved on time and in good manner. The researcher recommends that project beneficiaries should be given entrepreneurship training which could help to turns their payments into capital so as to engaging in different development projects. Lastly, M&E officers are encouraged to frequently visit project sites in order to see how the implementation going through and also to make quick solution of existing problem of beneficiaries such as delaying of cash, also participatory approach between M & E team, beneficiaries and Community Management Committees (CMCs) should be effective applied in order to ensure successful implementation of the project.