THE SOCIAL SERVICES AND HUMAN RESOURCES DEVELOPMENT DEPARTMENT

The mission of the Social Services and Human Resources Development Division is to promote national efforts to develop the national human resources towards enhanced social and economic development with a view to improve the quality of life through strengthening of skills, increased accessibility to better quality education, health, clean and safe water, proper shelter and good Governance.

Main duties of the Social Services and Human Resources Development Department includes:

  • Setting social development goals, targets and strategies
  • Analysis and monitoring of social development trends
  • To set policies and Strategies that will stimulate private and community participation in social and human resources development initiatives
  • To supervise and evaluate implementation of the social sector strategy
  • To initiate or promote national efforts towards child survival protection and development
  • To develop policies and strategies for enhancing efficiency in government administration
  • Initiating action on emerging issue/problems in the social, human resource development, government administration and population sectors.
  • Develop and coordinate Human Resource Development policy
  • Preparation Work Plans for the Division
  • Preparation of the annual performance report of the Division
  • Promotion of inter sectoral coordination
  • Preparation of the annual and semi annual social Development report
  • Production of the Annual Human Resource Development Report.

The Social Services and Human Resources Development Department comprises of three sections and their duties as follows:

   

SOCIAL SERVICES SECTION

Management of social sector development strategy

Setting and monitoring social development goals and targets

Analysis and monitoring social development trends

Promoting private and community participation

Initiate studies on social services issues

Child survival and development

Development and management of the Government administrative services

POPULATION PLANNING SECTION

Overseeing the implementation and review of the National Population Policy

Analysis and dissemination of population and development data

Co-ordination of population and development research

Co-ordination of population and development information, education and communication (IEC) activities (advocacy)

Co-ordination of training in population and development

Co-ordinating the integration of population in development planning

Dealing with gender issue in relation to population and development(including reproductive health issues)

Analyses and advise on human migration settlement and environment

 HUMAN RESOURCE DEVELOPMENT SECTION

Formulation of human resources development strategies

To analyses and review human resources utilization

Formulation of employment generation strategies and programmes

Identification of ational skills requirements

Analysing and advising on the effectiveness of foreign technical personnel programmes

Production of Annual Human Resources Development reports

Director of the Social Services and Human Resources Development Department is

Mr. S.B. Buberwa

Contact:

The Director
SSHRD
Planning Commission
P.O.Box 9242
Dar es Salaam, Tanzania
Telefax: +255-22-2115519
Email:buberwa@plancom.go.tz