The Implications of the Child Assistance Grants Programme on Refugee Children’s Poverty Status in Tanzania: A Case of Ulyankulu Tabora.

William, Muro Emanuel (2023) The Implications of the Child Assistance Grants Programme on Refugee Children’s Poverty Status in Tanzania: A Case of Ulyankulu Tabora. Masters thesis, The Open University of Tanzania.

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Abstract

The study intended to investigate the implication of the child assistant grants programme on poor refugee children in Tanzania, taking Ulyankulu as the case. Despite the fact that refugee children at Ulyankulu resettlement area form one of the camps that received assistance grants from various national and international organizations, the provision of such grants has not shown any significance impact in the reduction of poverty for the past two decades. The study employed descriptive research design under qualitative and quantitative research, taking the target population of 2400 persons. 113 respondents were sampled using simple random and purposive sampling techniques. Questionnaires, interviews, documentary review and focus group discussion were used to collect data from Child Support Grants (CSG) programme beneficiaries, parents, immigration officers, head of schools, and the teachers and analysed using Statistical Package for the Social Sciences and thematic analysis techniques. Findings indicated that there were CSG beneficiaries who were supported via respective grants programmes’ discharge, also parents and care givers were not involved to determine the kind of support needed by the refugee children. It was revealed that, head of settlement office had a very limited data on the kind of support given to the refugee. It was established that, there were confusion in the line of administration between the powers of the head of settlement and the powers of local administrators. In the light of these findings, this study concludes that, when the donors donate anything in the community of resettled refugees as part of humanitarian support; there should be openness and inclusion in the decision-making process. Keyword:Child Support Grant, Refugees, Poverty, Ulyankulu Resettlement Area

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