Foreign Aid, Grassroots Participation and Poverty Alleviation In Tanzania: The Hesawa Fiasco
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1999
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The study set to examine foreign aid effectiveness in the poverty alleviation in rural Tanzania. More
specifically, it sought to investigate the impact of the Health through Sanitation and Water (HESAWA)
program among the rural population of Mwanza and Kagera Regions. Twelve villages were studied.
HESAWA is an aid-supported program through SIDA and Sweden. The Government of Tanzania
contributes marginally through annual budgetary allocations. Although the program's core objectives
did not directly target poverty alleviation, its very emphasis on economic growth and social
development among the rural poor presupposes poverty alleviation as an indirect final objective.
Moreover, from the early 1990s, the objectives of international development cooperation by various
donors largely shifted in favour of the war on poverty reduction. Thanks are largely to the conclusion
of the Cold War and the end of the double standards behaviour among Western donor governments.
In a similar policy shift, HESAWA's overall mandate was enlarged and focused more pointedly on the
poverty reduction issues.
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HESAWA, Poverty alleviation, Tanzania, Foreign Aid
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Rugumamu, S., 1999. Foreign aid, grassroots participation and poverty alleviation in Tanzania: the HESAWA fiasco. Vancouver