The Use of Maximum Available Resources Article 2 & Governments’ Budgets Expenditures on non-essential items Article 2 &

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The Use of Maximum Available Resources: Article 2 & Governments' Budgets; Expenditures on non-essential items

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Summary: Case study illustrating principle that where a government is spending funds on non-essential goods and services, it is failing to use MAR to realize economic and social rights. In Tanzania, health outcomes are poor and the right to health has not been realized. Overall allocations to health are low but the Ministry of Health and Social Welfare (MoHSW) expends substantial limited resources on non-essential spending that includes travel by MoHSW staff, payment of sitting allowances to them, and the purchase of luxury vehicles. Civil servants, whose salaries are low, seek additional income from travel expenditures and sitting allowances. The Tanzanian civil society organization (CSO) Sikika, has documented such non-essential expenditures and has pressured the Ministry to use its funds for goods and services that are more likely to ensure for people in Tanzania the availability of good quality health care.

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