Households’ Involvement in the Preparation of Monitoring and Evaluation Plan and Performance of Tanzania Conditional Cash Transfer Project

Abstract

Poverty has been identified as one of the challenges affecting communities in developing countries. The Conditional Cash Transfer project was introduced in Tanzania aiming at poverty reduction among households. On that note, this study was conducted to assess the extent to which households’ involvement in the preparation of Monitoring and Evaluation plan influenced the performance of Tanzania Conditional Cash Transfer project. Descriptive cross-sectional and correlational research designs were used with the support of a pragmatic paradigm. By using Yamane’s (1967) formula, a sample size of 400 respondents was obtained from a target population of 61,240 households. Data was collected through administered questionnaires, key in-depth interviews and focus group discussions. The findings established a significant influence between households’ involvement in the preparation of Monitoring and Evaluation plan (t= 2.769, p-value = 0.006) on the performance of Tanzania Conditional Cash Transfer project. It was concluded that households’ involvement in the preparation of Monitoring and Evaluation plan played a significant role in the performance of Tanzania Conditional Cash Transfer project. Therefore, project implementers should review the Monitoring and Evaluation policy in order to incorporate households in the preparation of Monitoring and Evaluation plan for influencing the performance of the Tanzania Conditional Cash Transfer project.