DAILY NEWS Reporter, 25th November 2009 @ 12:00, Total Comments: 0, Hits: 620
GERMANY has given Tanzania a grant of 291bn/- (147m Euros) to support water, health programmes and the local government for the coming two years.
According to the technical and financial agreements signed today by the Germany’s Ambassador to Tanzania, Guido Herz, and the Permanent Secretary to the Treasury, Mr Ramadhani Khijjah, 44 million Euros would be allocated for water development programme.
Also another 44 million Euro will be provided to support the ‘Tanzanian German programme for health’ and the rehabilitation of decentralized health infrastructure.
Out of the grant, 28 million Euro will support decentralization and the local government and one million Euro will be invested in a study and expert fund.
“An additional 30 million Euro (54 billion/- ) are earmarked to go directly into the budget of the government as general budget support,” said the joint statement.
The bilateral development cooperation between Tanzania and the Federal Republic of Germany started way back in the 1960’s. Over the last five decades, the German bilateral cooperation with Tanzania had amounted to almost € 1.6 billion (2.88 trillion/-).
Tanzania is the largest beneficiary of German development cooperation in sub-Saharan Africa.
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