After paper presentation the participants agreed on the following recommendations relevant to the government, University of Dar es Salaam, OSSREA, NGOs, and the community in general.10
3.1 Recommendations:
1. Further exploration of conception, indicators of poverty, vulnerability, deprivation and powerlessness should be made, (Researchers including OSSREA researchers).
2. The poor should be involved in designing effective action for poverty reduction (Government, NGOs and researchers including OSSREA researchers.)
3. In additional to government, NGOs and other support the poor should also carry out self-help activities. (The poor and community in general).
4. The process of reform should aim at increasing productivity capacity of the poor. (Policy makers and those implementing the policy).
5. The agricultural sector plus public programmes which provide services, infrastructure research and technology should be simultaneously improved to address the rural poverty (Government).
6. More effort should be made to improve the measurement of purchasing power of the poor especially CPI by covering more places including the rural areas and by including more commodities relevant to the poor and vulnerable and possibly other groups. (Central Bureau of Statistics/Planning Commission/Government).
7. Official/comprehensive poverty lines using the current and future national households budget surveys (Researchers - including OSSREA researches and various officials).
8. To ensure availability of enough up-date and reliable data the time interval between the nation wide household budget surveys should be reduced to five years instead of ten years. (Bureau of Statistics, government and donors).
9. More emphasis to educate girls/women up to tertiary level should be made since the majority of women are poor (Ministry of Education, Universities and educational policy makers and those who implement policies).
10. Further research work on gender issues and poverty implications should be made. (Researchers including OSSREA Headquarter - Sponsor).
11. The informal sector should be promoted further so that the sector contributes significantly towards poverty alleviation. Enterprises with high employment and earning potentials should be encouraged (Public and private institutions).
12. Greater effort should be made to improve water supply, and irrigation in the country. (Ministry of Water and Energy and private sector).
