ARUSHA REGION INTEGRATED DEVELOPMENT PLAN VOLUME FIVE INFORMATION STRATEGY AND DOCUMENTATION Prepared By THE REGIONAL DEVELOPMENT DIRECTORATE ARUSHA REGION With The Assistance Of THE ARUSHA PLANNING AND VILLAGE DEVELOPMENT PROJECT Regional Commissioner's Office Arusha Region P.O. Box 3050 ARUSHA September 1981 THE UNITED REPUBLIC OF TANZANIA OFFICE OF THE PRIME MINISTER Regional Development Directorate, Arusha Telegrams: "REGCta" REGIONAL CCMMISSIONER'S OFFICE, P.O. Box 3050, Telephone: 2270-4 ARU SHA 18th Decenber, 1982 During the four year period beginning in July 1979 Arusha Region has been assisted by the USAID-sponsored Arusha Plannin6 and Village Development Project in the implementation of a large number of village development activities and in the preparation of the Region's Integrated Development Plan. It is a great pleasure to me that this Plan has now been completed and that I am able to write this short forward. The Arusha Region Integrated Development Plan includes a comprehensive description of the current status of development in the Region, an analysis of constraints to future development, and the strategies and priorities that the Region has adopted for guiding its future development. It also includes a review of projects in the Region's Five Year Development Plan as well as priority projects for long term investments. The preparation of the Plan has involved many meetings at the District Regional, and village level, and the goals, strategies, objectives and priority projects included in the Plan fully represent the decisions of the officials involved in those meetings. I am confident that the Plan will provide a very useful of frame reference for guiding the economic and social development of Arusha Region over both the medium-term five year period and the next 20 years. The of the total size identified projects and programmes is well beyond the normal scope of the financial resources of the Regional budget. Therefore, document one function of this is also to present the necessary facts and Justification for attracting assistance from potential sources outside of the Region to carry out priority projects which address the specified development objectives of the Region. The Plan is by no means exhustive, and there is room for interested organizations to explore other potential investments. Our Plan is therefore a base for future comprehensive planning. I would like to take this opportunity to congratulate Planning the Regional Office staff and the team from Development Alternatives, Inc., which undertook the implementation of the Arusha Flanning and Village Project, fr Development their hard work and many accomplishments and to thank all those Regional Government, Ministry, Parastatal, and Party officials who, in one way or another, gave them the necessary assistance and cooperation. J. A. Mhaville REGIONAL CCMMISSIONER ARUSHA i TABLE OF CONTENTS Page PART ONE: INFORMATION STRA'TEGY 1 CHAPTER ONE: INTRODUCTION . .. .. 3 CHAPTER TWO: INFORMATION STRATEGY FOR REGIONAL PLANNING . 7 IDENTIFYING INFORMATION CENTER REQUIREMENTS. .. 7 ASSEMBLING AN INFORMATION BASE . .. .. 10 Describing the Physical Environment ....... ....... 10 Describing Population Trends and Movement........... 11 Gathering Village Data and Insights ......... .. 11 Review of Existing Data ..... ........... 11 Aerial Surveys ...... .................. 12 Village Profile ........................ 12 District Workshops ............... 14 Preparation of Sector Assessments... ......... 14 Consultation Model ..... ............ ... 15 ollaboration Model ............... ... 15 a Study Model ... ........... .. 15 Work ;op Model .................. 16 RegionaOfficer Assessments . 16 Cross-Cutting Isue Papers . .. 17 IEGIONAL PLANNING DEOiSON MAKING ... ......... 18 L2SSONS FROM THE REGIONAiNW',ANNING EXERCISE. 20 INFORMATION ACTIVITIES IN SNZ'17ORT OF DEVELOPMENT ACTIVITIE....... 22 CHAPTER THREE: RECOMMENDATIONS FOR AN INFTV 4 O SRAEG IN SUPPORT OF FUTURE REGIONAL DEVELOPMENT . ­ .... 25 INTRODUCTION .................. .. PROVIDING A DEVELOPMENT PERSPECTIVE . .. .. POLICY PROGRAM AND PROJECT DEVELOPMENT ... ........... 26 Policy and Program Development ... ............. 27 Project Development ......... .................. 28 MONITORING AND EVALUATION ...... ................. 30 Monitoring........... ...................... 30 Evaluation .......... ....................... 31 Development Indicators ..... ............... 31 Project Evaluation...... ................. 32 ii NEW INFORMATION PROCEDURES. 33 SUMMARY . 34 PART II: DOCUMENTATION 37 GENERAL OUTLINE . ....... ........... 39 APVDP ANNUAL PLANS . 63 ARUSHA REGION INTEGRATED DEVELOPMENT PLAN . 71 APVDP PROGRESS REPORTS . 85 ISSUE PAPERS . 109 ISSUE PAPER SUMMARIES. 205 REGIONAL SECTOR PAPERS. 209 GENERAL POLICY PAPERS . s . 227 EVALUATION PAPERS . 255 DISTRICT STRATEGY AND PRIORITY PAPERS . 273 SEMINARS, PLANNING WORKSHOPS, PLANNING COMMITTEE MEETINGS ................. * ......... 285 REGIONAL AND DISTRICT PROJECT PROFILES. 297 - " i . "",,, 4 S "". ... 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ONH A NV I­ -mqj_ i jf­ '..zone :1I -- District boundaries 1 PART ONE INFORMATION STRATEGY 3 CHAPTER OE INTRODUCTION The purpose of Volume Five of the Arusha Region Integrated Development Plan is to present the information strategy and documentation in support of the region's planning process. In addition to Volume Five, the plan includes: e Summary Report: Arusha Integrated Development Plan; * Volume One: Arusha Today: 1981, which outlines the current status, trends, and constraints in the region; e Volume Two: Arusha Region: Development Strategies and Priorities for the Next 20 Years, which presents the region's main policy decisions to guide development to the year 2000; o Volume Three: Arusha Region: Medium-Term Plan, which presents the projects for funding under the region's five year plan, including a detailed project proposal for the follow-on to the Arusha Planning and Village Development Project (APVDP); and e Vo.1.me Four: 1krusha Region: Long-Term Development Plan 19P. 2000, which outlines the region's primary long-term investment objectives and project proposals to help achieve these objectives. This planning exercise was supported by APVDP, which was initiated in July 1979. The project was sponsored by the Government of Tanzania and by the United States Agency for International Development (AID), with technical assistance provided by Development Alternatives, Inc. (DAI). APVDP combined the process of regional planning with the simultaneous development and implementation of village income­ generating and related development activities in the region's agricultural districts of Arumezu, Hanang, and Mbulu. The regional planning process provided a decision-making framework for 4 the region's future development, while the initiation of local development activities contributed to the quality of life in rural villages as well as added ideas and realism to the planning process. DEFINING AN INFORMATION STRATEGY Arusha Region has an area of about 82,000 km and a population of over 1 million people. Administratively, the region consists of seven districts (including Arusha town) with 463 villages. Starting with the Arusha Declaration, several government policies have been enacted that gradually devolve decision making to the region and its districts with the goal of improving the quality of life in rural villages. This devolution of decision making is particularly important in achieving this qoal in an area such as Arusha Region, for the policy allows development activities to be tailored to the particular circumstances of its diverse agro­ ecological zones, population, and ongoing development activities. The design of APVDP was built on these policies and conditions, attempting to help the region formulate a long-term development perspective and at the same time address the particular development constraints of various localities. Formulating an information strategy that meets the decision-makinq requirements for accomplishing both aims posed special problems. At the outset of APVDP, two inter-related sets of information requirements were identified: 9 The information required for the preparation of the Arusha Region Integrated Development Plan as a guide for intermediate- and long-term decision making; and e The information required for the design, implementation, and evaluation of development activities in the districts of Arumeru, Hanang, and Mbulu. 5 Although inter-related, each set of information requirements called for different approaches to the collection, analysis, and dissemination of information in order to be