UTPC Strategic Plan 2011-2015 - Procurement Audits UTPC Strategic Plan 2011-2015 UTPC’s intervention aims at promoting democracy and development by enhancing the capacity of journalists in the regions, building institutional capacity of 27 press clubs and improving UTPC’s secretariat to serve its stakeholders. UTPC has applied to Sida for an extension of the specific agreement with sum of SEK 11 386,860 to implement its work plan during July 2014-December 2015. 

This request comes up because the three year funding from Sida to support UTPC’s strategic plan ended in on 30 June 2014. The requested fund will bridge the gap between the current strategic plan and next strategic plan 2015-2019 at the same time enables UTPC consolidate the gains achieved under the current strategic plan. In addition, the extension will allow some space for UTPC to complete development of the next strategic plan and time for mobilizing founding sources, beyond Swedish funding. 

UTPC's total cost during 2011-2013 has been SEK 34,303,656 out of which SEK 33,583,656 (98%) is the Swedish conTribution on components 01 and 02 and SEK 720,000. i.e 4%  is from UTPC. With the additional sum of SEK 11,134,516 the Swedish total contribution during 2011-2015 will amount to SEK 45,352,445 ( as seen on decision on page one ) and UTPC's share of SEK 422,000 will add up to SEK 1,142,000. Union of Tanzania Press Clubs (UTPC) has applied to Sida for an extension of the specific agreement with sum of SEK 11,386,860 to implement its eighteen month work plan during July 2014-December 2015. This request comes up because the three year funding from Sida to support UTPC’s strategic plan ended in 30 June 2014. The requested fund will bridge the gap between the current strategic plan and next strategic plan 2016-2019 at the same time enables UTPC consolidate the gains achieved under the current strategic plan. In addition, the extension will allow for space for UTPC to complete development of the next strategic plan and time for mobilizing funding sources, beyond Swedish funding. 

UTPC’s total budget during July 2014-December 2015 is Tshs 2,798,699,820 MSEK 11,808,860; out of which Tshs 2,698,,686,326 (MSEK 11,386,860, i.e. 96%) is the expected Swedish contribution and the remaining Tsh 100,000,000 (SEK 422,000, i.e. 4%) is from UTPC. As SEK 381,929 remains to be disbursed from Sida to UTPC, an additional Swedish contribution of SEK 11,134,516 is required to fill the gap.

With the earlier decided costs of Tshs 900,000 for procurement audits, and with a total contribution corresponding to SEK 1,142,000 from UTPC (additional SEK 422,000, and earlier SEK 720,000) the total contribution for the intervention will increase from SEK 35,456,000 to SEK 45,352,445 ( as seen on the decision page one) with the Swedish share constituting 98% and the UTPC share 2%.

The said Swedish contribution SEK 11,386,860 shall be made available in two disbursements. The first disbursement shall be SEK 7,386,860 and shall be made upon signature of the amended agreement by both parties and request for payment by UTPC. The second disbursement shall be SEK 4,000,000 and shall be made after approval by Sida of results and  audit reports for 2014.