Prerequisite: None
Content:
What are public development policies (Essential component of public policy, Goals/objectives, Distribution of responsibilities to agents, Implementation rules, Implementation agents, Resources); The rationale of public development policy; The policy cycle (Initiation, Formulation, Implementation, Monitoring and Evaluation, Review of the policy); Policy success: Its causes (Clear goals/objectives, Clear distribution of responsibilities to agents, Clear implementation rules, Committed implementation agents, Sense of policy ownership, Resource availability, Co-ordination); Policy failure: Its causes (The complexity of the policy process, Specific problems of policies: too broad based/general; with too many implementation agents; loosely related/coordinated; absence of policy ownership, Lack of adequate resources); Tanzania’s policy driven development: successes and problems encountered and prospects (The Arusha Declaration and its various strategies of implementation: emphasis in the rural sector).
Definition of social services; education, health, water and sanitation provision services just after independence, during the “lost decade” after trade liberalisation. Structural adjustment programmes and social service provision. The role of social services in economic development; Access to social services; Social security schemes and development.