The UN has placed Tanzania in the “fast track” category of developing countries that have effectively used donor funds to materialize Millennium Development Goals (MDGs).
Local newspaper The Guardian Wednesday quoted John Hendra, UN Development Program resident representative in Tanzania, as saying that the country is among a small number of poor countries that have demonstrated quick and effective utilization of donor funds.
The UN representative also said that Tanzania has made tremendous progress with outside aid in poverty reduction and primary school enrollment in particular.
He added that the east African country has also made progress in eliminating gender inequality and in improving environmental sustainability.
The MDGs were set forth in 2000 in the Global Millennium Declaration and are expected to materialize by 2015.
The goals include cutting poverty and hunger, achieving universal primary education, promoting gender equality, empowering women, reducing child mortality rate, improving maternal health, halting and reversing the spread of HIV/AIDS, ensuring environmental sustainability, and formulating global partnership for development.
Kilde: Xinhua og The Push Journal
