THE government will be conducting strict monitoring and evaluation in a bid to ensure effective public financial management and accountability, as it prepares to implement its five year development plan and MKUKUTA II.

Prime Minister Mr Mizengo Pinda said in Dar es Salaam on Thursday that it was high time that Tanzania created environment for efficient budget execution, address challenges in Public Financial Management and have in place appropriate regulations to enforce them.

He was opening the third Annual National Policy Review Dialogue which collects views from various stakeholders and partners on how best the government can implement its development programmes in important areas to the country's development.

"The government, despite recording some achievements in various areas of economy, is committed to continue strengthening Public Financial Management System so as to achieve high level public service delivery," he said.

The PM added that the Public Financial Management Reform System phase four is being finalized and will be implemented in a span of five years beginning this year, covering areas of revenue management, planning and budget management as well as transparency and accountability, among others.

He pointed out numerous achievements in the areas of food security, education, health, water, governance and accountability and reassured that the government would keep on conducting Public Expenditure Review (PER), which is an important tool for strengthening budget management.

The premier admitted the country was experiencing excessive poverty in some areas, but boasted various tangible measures were in place to address the condition. He, however, urged the general public to abandon the culture of only talking and complaining and venture into action with intention to achieve results.

"It is true that our major challenge is not lack of understanding of our problems, nor what needs to be done to get out of poverty but how to do it. Without effective implementation our plans and strategies are doomed to fail," he stressed.

He urged the development partners to keep on supporting the country's reforms in order to unlock the inherent institutional constraints that inhibit effective implementation of the set reforms.

Giving his comments, the Development Partners Group Co-chair and United Nations Resident Coordinator, Mr Alberic Kacou said Tanzania has seen an impressive economic growth rate over the past ten years, but needs to work hard to increase the annual growth rate to double digit as opposed to seven per cent at present.

He said similar attention should be given to public service reforms and implementation of the Medium Term Pay Policy to ensure more balanced human resources allocation in services delivery sectors in underserved areas. While the government and the General Budget Support (GBS) agreed on almost all budget assessment areas in what he termed as the most successful annual reviews ever seen in Tanzania before, he challenged for more clearer and tangible results of the GBS cooperation.

Transparency, accountability and anti-corruption measures, he said, were essential for an increasingly effective development cooperation, attracting foreign direct investments as well as creating space for private sector development.

"Development Partners welcome the political commitments by the Tanzanian leadership to intensify the fight against both the high-profile and petty corruption within specific sectors," he said.

A representative from the Private Sector, Dr Gideon Kaunda said the country needed to improve its human resources capacity which contributes only three per cent to the growth of economy, which is the lowest in East African region.