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TASO TITLE 11 PROJECT CORPORATE DEVELOPMENTS IN PROJECT IMPLEMENTATION. 1.0 Registration of Primary Beneficiaries Table 1: Status of registration as at 30 November 2002. 2.0 Registration of Overall Beneficiaries Table 2: Status of registration of overall beneficiaries as at 30 November 2002.
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TASO TITLE 11 PROJECT CORPORATE DEVELOPMENTS IN PROJECT IMPLEMENTATION
1.0 Registration of Primary BeneficiariesTable 1: Status of registration as at 30 November 2002
2.0 Registration of Overall BeneficiariesTable 2: Status of registration of overall beneficiaries as at 30 November 2002
Target: 35,000 BeneficiariesDeficit: 172 BeneficiariesBeneficiary Children: 69 % of totalRegistration Performance: 99.5 % STATUS OF REGISTRATION OF OVERALL BENEFICIARIES AS AT 30 NOVEMBER 2002.
TASO Center Total Planned Total Served Performance 1 Mbale 4,250 4,236 99.7 % 2 Tororo 6,250 5,814 93.0 % 3 Entebbe 3,750 3,393 91.0 % 4 Masaka 5,000 4,385 88.0 % 5 Mbarara 6,250 5,210 84.0 % 6 Jinja 4,500 3,737 83.0 % 7 Mulago 5,000 3,615 73.0 % TOTAL 35,000 30,390 87.0 % 3.0 Food Distribution Performance by Center(Performance by End of November, 2002)
-TASO Mbale was the best performing Center with over 99 %, but TASO Tororo serves more beneficiaries than any other Center, followed by TASO Mbarara.-TASO Mulago had the biggest performance deficit of 27 %.-TASO Entebbe, though in the 3rd position, should have performed better than Tororo because of having a smaller target.-The corporate objective is for TASO to achieve 95% feeding performance by end of January, 2003.
3.1 Possible Reasons Why TASO Mulago Has The Highest Performance Deficit· Mulago’s urban setting makes its clients most mobile and businesslike and therefore most likely not to turn up for food due to lack of time. · Most Counsellors at Mulago are females and have a low propensity of riding motorcycles to mobilise clients for signing their Ids and follow-up visits.· The society around Mulago is more heterogeneous and sensitive to stigma usually attached to PLWAs, and therefore avoids being associated with the food.· The society around Mulago have many alternatives of sourcing for food and may at times be inclined to shun food attached with stringent rules.
·Many alternate collectors in Kampala are not as committed as required to collect project food.· There is need for more community mobilisation, vigilance, motivation, participation and involvement at the highest level of leadership at the Center. Please Note:TASO Mulago is to release some of its planned quota of beneficiaries to more active and needy Centers such as TASO Masaka, ie about 35 primary beneficiaries of 5 family members.
Month Cumulative Food Served at Close of November 2002 Total Beneficiaries Increase over Previous Monthly Performance in Food Served Distribution CSB (Kgs) Veg oil (Lts) January 9,190 0 47,929.6 4,277.1 27 % February 13,381 4,191 131,239.0 11,711.8 39 % March 16,772 3,391 150,993.0 13,483.9 48 % April 18,786 2,014 169,146.0 15,108.3 54 % May 20,611 1,825 186,051.0 16,562.6 59 % June 23,532 2,921 212,229.0 18,949.2 68 % July 24,843 1,311 223,102.0 19,986.8 71 % August 26,043 1,200 234,457.0 20,913.6 75 % September 27,147 1,104 244,314.0 21,803.8 78 % October 28,894 1,747 260,217.0 23,223.7 83 % November 30,390 1,496 273,510.0 24,408.9 87 % Total 2,133,187.6 190,429.7 4.0 Development Of The Food Distribution Project Since January 2002.
·The number of people served per month is increasing at a decreasing rate due to:- Slow rate of signing and distributing Ids - Re-assessment and de-registration- Inactivity by some beneficiaries-Deaths, stigma, bumper harvests of alternative foods, etc.
5.0 Challenges and Problems Encountered so Far ·Low levels of literacy, deaths of potential primary beneficiaries and lack of adequate numbers of Counsellors to trace beneficiaries in their communities have checked the anticipated speed of signing and laminating Ids. · Some spouses do not have shared confidentiality about their sero-status. · Overwhelming numbers of new clients attracted by the project have led to high demand for home visits, counselling and medical services. · Existence of some ineligible beneficiaries. A reassessment of beneficiaries has, therefore, taken place to target the most needy.
·Failure to collect food by some clients and alternate collectors. Any persistent failure to collect food leads to decommissioning the beneficiaries from the project.·Enormous workload on the part of Counsellors and Project staff. This has been tackled by recruitment of 2 more officers per Center to boost project personnel. ·Many beneficiaries have been frustrated by the slow rate of processing Ids and ration cards by ACDI/VOCA.· A big number of unregistered potential beneficiaries are pressuring Centers to enrol them in the program.
6.0 Other Partinent Issues to Note About the Food Distribution Program ·The food aid program is a 5-year initiative funded by USAID through ACDI/VOCA. ·A consortium of 4 civil society organizations, namely, World Vision, Africare, Catholic Relief Services and TASO, executes the program. ·TASO serves the largest portion of all program beneficiaries in the ACDI/VOCA Title 11 consortium: (target = 58%). Out of 122 total final distribution points TASO serves 74: (61%).
·Owing to limited food resources, about 35% of the TASO registered clients will ultimately benefit from the program.·Although TASO was initially planned to have a total of 7,000 primary beneficiaries the update in registration of active primary beneficiaries stood at 10,516 by the end of November 2002; ie 150% of target. End