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| Social Safety Nets and Poverty Alleviation in Tanzania: A Case of Chamwino District Council |
Jonas Charles Kapwani Dr. Muhsin M. Danga Scholastica N. Justus
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Abstract:
This study analyzed the Social Safety Nets and Poverty Alleviation in Tanzania the case of Chamwino District. The main objective of the study was to examine potential and challenges of social safety nets to households beneficiaries. To achieve the objective an empiricism positivist philosophical stance was deployed with the use of descriptive research design. Probability sampling was deployed to select beneficiary households and pupils at school while non-probability sampling was used for government official. A total of 100 sample size was generated whereby eighty (80) respondents are beneficiaries households and twenty (20) respondents are school pupils. Structured interview, observation and in-depth interviews were organized to compare and confirm the respondents' responses. Quantitative data were analyzed using Statistical Package for Social Scientists (SPSS) while qualitative data content analysis, memoing and transcription was deployed. Overall study finding revealed approximately 100% of the household beneficiaries can access and afford health expenses after obtaining health insurance card to cover six members of the households after PSSN program intervention. Around 90% of school pupils have been well furnished with school basics; 76.25% households' beneficiaries have invested in keeping livestock and a substantial part of sum bought grain. Beneficiaries trust to borrow has increased significantly, failure of income generating activities and shortage of medicines forms part of the challenges.
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