The Government of Tanzania embarked on Civil Service Reform Programme in late 1990s with an aim of among others, improving employ pay packages for the Public Servants. However, experience from Kinondoni Municipal Council, in Dar es Salaam has indicated a big number of indebted employees whose credits from the Banks have left them with net salaries less than 10% of their Basic salary contrary to the Government Policy that insists that deduction from the salaries should not exceed 40%. The research seeks to explore why Government Employees in Local Government are highly indebted and suggest the measures to be taken to remedy the situation.
In addition, looking at administrative reform in Tanzania, it is argued that external involvement in sub-Saharan Africa is becoming increasingly differentiated. For some states a key set of continuities and changes allows us to conceptualize a regime of post-conditionality. Tanzania regimes exist where extreme external dependence and economic growth produce a set of political dynamics in which external–national distinctions become less useful, in which there emerge a set of unequal mutual dependencies, and in which donor/creditor involvement in reform becomes qualitatively more intimate, pervading the form and processes of the state. Details of dispensation are provided in an analysis of key ministries and key interventions by creditors. There may be finishing ways by considering the contradictions of the post conditionality regime as well as civil program prospects.
Tanzania is known for its past strong socialist orientation. The assessment of the nation’s effort to reform the banking system, state owned enterprises, taxation system and the public services sector, (2000 ), emergence of the private sector. Comparisons are made where relevant with the experiences from transition economies in Eastern Europe. Major reforms have taken place in all the sub-sectors, and there is significant increase in the participation by the private sector in the economy with increased production. Private banks have increased from zero in 1994 to thirteen in 1998. Over 40 percent (2000 ) of former state owned enterprises have been divested, 50 percent of which were sold (2000). Some are performing well, contributing to government income and reversing the drain through subsidy. There recognizes the role played by the private sector and has introduced new mechanisms to collect taxes. Private sector investment has increased and major developments are notable in mining and tourism. The welfare to poorer sections of society has been inadequate as extension of financial services to small businesses and rural areas as several investments are required, especially on employees’ health, education and infrastructure (2000).
The core method of research is case study approach as there is ample need to look at civil service reform program in Tanzania adhering to certain government rules and policies as Tanzania has been pursuing program of civil service reform which has emphasized job reduction. In local government the importance of reform and the lack of previous training for the manpower management officers responsible for job reduction are an argument for training, while the complex institutional arrangements of local government and the difficult circumstances in which the manpower management officers work are potential constraint on its effectiveness. A program of training for manpower management officers and its theoretical underpinnings in terms of transfer of learning are outlined. Discussion of the program’s effectiveness leads to a discussion of the limited effectiveness of even well designed training in isolation, and of the complementary organizational and institutional development interventions which are desirable in order to increase its effectiveness. The need for research to contribute in the discussion of the nature of external intervention in the reform processes of indebted states. In the process of structural adjustment and economic liberalisation, former strong socialist sub-Saharan African countries are experiencing additional challenges in their efforts to develop the private sector, compared to those that had relatively market oriented economies.
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