Tanzania: Economic Development, Environment, Health, & the Internet
- African Development Bank Group on Tanzania (Abidjan, Côte d'Ivoire)Basic economic indicators and links to other "country operations" reports.
- Tanzania Commission for AIDS (Prime Minister's Office, United Republic of Tanzania, Dar es Salaam)
- Tanzania Digital National Atlas, 2007 (Mike Shand, University of Glasgow, Scotland, UK)This site offers detailed, colorful online maps of Tanzania, plus Macromedia Shockwave maps.
- Bank of Tanzania (Dar es Salaam)See especially: Publications (including monthly, quarterly, and annual reports).
- Centre for the Study of African Economies -- Research on Tanzania (University of Oxford, Oxford, UK)
- "The economic impact of mobile phone ownership: Results from a randomized controlled trial in Tanzania." (2021)
- "Rural-urban linkages, public investment, and transport costs: the case of Tanzania." (2016)
- "Falling off the map: the impact of formalizing (some) informal settlements in Tanzania. (2015)
- "The price of empowerment: experimental evidence on land titling in Tanzania." (2014)
- "Entrepreneurial saving practices...Tanzanian MSEs." (2014)
- "Peer effects...in rural Tanzania." (2014)
- "Tribe or title? Ethnic enclaves and the demand for formal land tenure in a Tanzanian slum." (2013)
- "A model of comparative advantage with matching in the urban Tanzanian labour market." (2012)
- "Who get's to stay in school?: long-run impact of income shocks on schooling in rural Tanzania." (2010)
- CSAE Working papers series (All)
- "The economic impact of mobile phone ownership: Results from a randomized controlled trial in Tanzania." (2021)
- Coalition for Urban Transitions: "Harnessing Urbanisation for Development: Roadmap for Tanzania's Urban Development Policy." August 2019. (London, UK)
72 pages in PDF format
- COSTECH--Commission for Science and Technology (Dar es Salaam, Tanzania)"...COSTECH is a parastatal organization with the responsibility of co-ordinating and promoting research and technology development activities in the country."
--See especially: COSTECH project publications - Danish Institute for International Studies Formerly Centre for Development Research. (Copenhagen, Denmark)
- Dar Ramani Huria (Dar es Salaam, Tanzania)[Established in 2006] "...a community-based mapping project in Dar Es Salaam, Tanzania. Dar Ramani Huria (which is Swahili for “Dar Open Map”) is training teams of local university students and community members from throughout Dar Es Salaam to use OpenStreetMap to create sophisticated and highly-accurate maps of Dar es Salaam. These neighborhoods (known as wards) were selected because these are the most flood-prone areas of the city." Among its many sponsors is Humanitarian OpenStreet Map Team, based in Washington, DC.
As of April 2016, this site includes maps for wards in the following districts: Kinondoni, Ilala, and Temeke. - Demographic and Health Surveys: Tanzania Indicators, Datasets, and Reports (2015-16 and earlier) (Calverton, Maryland)See also, below: Tanzania National Bureau of Statistics--which includes 2010 Tanzania Demographic and Health Survey--Preliminary Report ; 2001 & 2007 Household Budget Surveys ; 2002 Population Census--Analytical Report.
- Tanzania Development Gateway (Dar es Salaam, Tanzania; Washington, DC)"...locally owned and managed public-private partnerships created to facilitate and catalyze the use of information and communication technologies (ICT) for development."
The site includes Tanzania Business and Civil Society Portals. - DICOTA--Diaspora Council of Tanzanians in America (USA)"DICOTA is an organization whose purpose is to unite and strengthen the Tanzanian American Diaspora and its supporters, in order to enhance the economic, health, and social well being of Tanzanians and Americans."
- East African business week. (Online) -- Kampala, Uganda: East African Business Week Ltd., 2005-The electronic version of a weekly newspaper covering business news mostly for Kenya, Tanzania, and Uganda, sometimes for neighboring countries. Several weeks of reports are readily available on the web site; use "search" feature to find reports from back issues since October 2005.
- East African Community = Jumuiya ya Afrika Mashariki (Arusha, Tanzania)
- This is the official website of the regional intergovernmental organization (encompassing Kenya, Tanzania, and Uganda) which was (re)established in 1999 by treaty (see "Documents & Publications"). The site includes information about the EAC, current news, and related links.
- EAC Statistics Portal
- EACOP : East African Crude Oil Pipeline Project (Uganda and Tanzania)
- African Arguments: "The bold campaign to defund the East African Crude Oil Pipeline.," June 22, 2022. (London)
- The East African: "EAC MPs tell off EU counterparts, back oil pipeline project," November 8, 2022. (Nairobi)
--See also: "Lenders save stalled Eacop with $300 million," October 8, 2022. - East African Crude Oil Pipeline Ltd. (London, UK; Kampala, Uganda) Official site
- "The East African Crude Oil Pipeline: why are some East Africans opposed?" (2022) By Abby Morenigbade. Georgetown Environmental Law Review. March 25, 2022.
- EITI--Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative: "Connecting the dots with the East Africa Crude Oil Pipeline," November 24, 2020 (Oslo, Norway)
- The Guardian: "'Monstrous' East African oil project will emit vast amounts of carbon, data show," October 27, 2022. (London)
- IPP Media: "Environment precautions taken in EACOP project," September 24, 2022 (Dar es Salaam, Tanzania)
--See also: "Oil firms protest EU's EACOP vote," September 17, 2022. - The Petroleum Authority of Uganda: The East African Crude Oil Pipeline (EACOP) Project (Kampala)
- "Rivalry in East Africa: The case of the Uganda-Kenya crude oil pipeline and the East Africa crude oil pipeline," (2022) By Brendon J. Cannon and Stephen Mogaka. The Extractive Industries and Society. Vol. 11 (September 2022). --via ScienceDirect
- StopEACOP: Stop the East African Crude Oil Pipeline (Kampala, Uganda)An environmental and human rights NGO advocates for the people of Uganda and other neighboring countries in East and Central Africa...[and for] the clean renewable energy of the future and all the benefits that come with it."
--See especially: Publications - Tanzania Petroleum Development Corporation (Dar es Salaam, Tanzania)
--Brief description of EACOP - Uganda. Directorate of Petroleum: "East African Crude Oil Pipeline" (Kampala)
- Economic and Social Research Foundation (ESRF) (Dar es Salaam, Tanzania)The ESRF was established in 1993 as an independent not-for-profit non-governmental research institute for capacity building in economic and social policy analysis, including ICT development.
- Tanzania Energy Access Maps (2017) World Resources Institute--Maps and Data (Washington, DC, USA; Addis Ababa, Ethiopia)"The 2012 Census and 2016 Tanzania Energy Access Situation Report household survey data were utilized to incorporate ground-level data in our otherwise remote analysis of energy access in Tanzania."
- EITI--Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative : Tanzania (Oslo, Norway)"Tanzania is predominantly a mining country with both small and large-scale operations dominated by nine major mines: seven for gold and one each for diamonds and tanzanite. The government joined the EITI as part of a wider reform efforts to make the sector more competitive and maximise the benefits from mining."
--See especially: EITI reports and other documents -and- EITI Tanzania website - ELDIS Country Profile--Tanzania (Electronic Development and Environment Information System, Institute of Development Studies, University of Sussex, Brighton, UK)This service compiles and indexes links to online full texts (requiring Adobe Acrobat PDF), related web sites, and print publications in the IDS library on a variety of subjects pertaining to Tanzania, especially in the fields of agricultural economics, trade, health, governance, and education.
- Energy and Water Utilities Regulatory Authority (EWURA) (Dar es Salaam, Tanzania)
- Financial Sector Deepening Trust Tanzania (Dar es Salaam, Tanzania)The site includes news and reports."[FSDT Tanzania]...has been established by five government donors: Canada, the UK, Sweden, the Netherlands and Denmark, in close collaboration with the Bank of Tanzania and the Government of Tanzania."
--See especially: FSDT Reports and Publications - Food and Agriculture Organization on Tanzania (Rome, Italy)
- FAO Country Profile on Tanzania
- FAO Aquastat Programme: United Republic of Tanzania, 2016
A profile of Tanzanian water resources. "The 'thirst' for water data is ever increasing and there is indeed considerable demand for data on rural water use from national governments and development agencies. The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations initiated an activity in 1993 to meet this demand with particular focus on irrigation. This resulted in the AQUASTAT Programme, the objective of which is to generate rural water use data at country level in a systematic manner." - FAO Document Repository: Tanzania
- FAO Country Profile on Tanzania
- The Foundation for Civil Society (Dar es Salaam, Tanzania)
- The site --in English or Swahili-- offers news and reports of activities, plus related links.
"The Foundation [started in January 2003] is a Tanzanian non-profit company, designed and funded by a group of like-minded development partners, and governed by an independent Board. It was previously known as the Civil Society Program (CSP). - The Foundation for Civil Society--Publications
- Civil Society Organizations Directory
- The site --in English or Swahili-- offers news and reports of activities, plus related links.
- Haki Ardhi: Land Rights Research and Resources Institute (Dar es Salaam, Tanzania)"[Founded in 1994 by Issa G. Shivji, Wilbert B. L. Kapinga, & Georgios Hadjivayanis]...the Institute was established out of the need to generate and sustain a public debate and participation, particularly where it matters in villages on issues of land tenure."
- Hakikazi Catalyst (2007) (Dar es Salaam, Tanzania)The site of a civil society NGO with reports on development workshops, land tenure, poverty reduction, and "plain language" guides for community work, ie. Tanzania without poverty (2001).
- International Institute for Environment and Development: Environment at the Heart of Tanzania's Development (2007): Lessons from Tanzania's National Strategy for Growth and Reduction of Poverty (MKUKUTA) January 2007-- London: IIED, 2007. 59 pages in PDF format.
- International Land Coalition on Tanzania -- Rangelands (Rome, Italy)
- The International Monetary Fund: Tanzania Country Info (Washington, DC)Summaries, full length reports, and recent news. Note: Some documents are in PDF format, requiring Adobe Acrobat.
- Land Investment Deals in Africa--Reports on Tanzania from The Oakland Institute
- Lake Victoria Basin: Atlas of Our Changing Environment (2017) -- Arendal, Norway: GRID-Arendal, 2017.
110 pages in PDF format.
- Lawyers' Environmental Action Team (Dar es Salaam, Tanzania)"[Established in 1994] LEAT carries out policy research, advocacy, and selected public interest litigation. Its membership largely includes lawyers concerned with environmental management and democratic governance in Tanzania."
-- LEAT Publications, including: Environmental law handbook for businesses. (Online) HTML or Word formats. - Ministries on Economy and Health
- Finance & Economic Affairs--Budget
- Agriculture, Food and Cooperatives
- Energy and Minerals
- Health and Social Welfare
- Industry, Trade and Marketing
- Infrastructure Development
- Planning, Economy & Empowerment--See below: Tanzania Poverty Monitoring
- Water and Irrigation
- All Ministries (via Official Gateway of the United Republic of Tanzania)
- Finance & Economic Affairs
- National Bank of Commerce of Tanzania NBC Ltd. (ABSA Group Ltd. of South Africa, Dar es Salaam)
- Tanzania National Bureau of Statistics (Dar es Salaam)
- This site offers selected publications and information about activities, as well as selected demographic and economic data.
--See: "Quick Statistics" and databases, such as TSED or CountryStat.
- National Data Archive (selected online publications)
--See also: Open Data Tanzania below - National Five-Year Development Plan, 2021/22-2025/26. (June 2021) 352 pages in PDF format
- ZADEP--Zanzibar Development Plan, 2021-2026. (March 2022) 124 pages in PDF format
- Tanzania Demographic and Health Survey 2010, Preliminary Report. -- Dar es Salaam: National Bureau of Statistics ; Calverton, MD: Measure DHS, 2010. 55 pages in PDF format
- Tanzania in figures 2010. -- Dar es Salaam: National Bureau of Statistics, Ministry of Finance, 2010. 87 pages in PDF format
- Tanzania 2002 Population Census, Vol. X: Analytical Report. -- Dar es Salaam: National Bureau of Statistics, Ministry of Planning, Economy and Empowerment, 2006. 211 pages in PDF format
--Plus: 1967-2002 data.
- Selected papers
- This site offers selected publications and information about activities, as well as selected demographic and economic data.
- Norwegian Institute for Urban and Regional Research -- Tanzania (Oslo, Norway)
- Evaluation of the Southern and Eastern Africa Regional Centre for Women's Law (2013) NORAD report
- Norwegian party assistance in Tanzania (2009)
- Decentralisation and poverty reduction: a review of the linkages in Tanzania and the international literature (2008)
- Local governance finances and service delivery in Tanzania (2005)
- All NIBR Publications
- Oakland Institute: Land Investment Deals in Africa: Tanzania (Oakland, California)
- Flawed Plans for Relocation of the Maasai from Ngorongoro Conservation Area (May 2022)
- Irresponsible investment: AGRICA's broken development model in Tanzania. (2015)
-- Oakland, California: The Institute, 2015. 36 pages in PDF format
- Open Data Tanzania -- OpenData.Go.Tz (Dar es Salaam, Tanzania)
- Datasets
- Government Open Data Portal: This repository site offers statistical publications and datasets for education, health, tourism, water, and other sectors of the Tanzanian economy and society.
- PLAAS-Institute for Poverty, Land and Agrarian Studies: Foreign land deals in Tanzania: an update and a critical view on the challenges of data (re)production. (May 2013) by Martina Locher & Emmanuel Sulle. -- Cape Town, South Africa: PLAAS.
55 pages in PDF format - Policy Project: Tanzania (Futures Group, Washington, DC)A summary of assistance activities in HIV/AIDS policies and other reproductive health policies in Tanzania, with downloadable reports in PDF format.
- United Republic of Tanzania: Poverty Monitoring -- Official Website (Dar es Salaam)Downloadable reports, news, and data on poverty reduction since 2000. "Launched at Poverty Policy Week 2004, the website is intended to increase the capacity of stakeholders to access vital information on progress being achieved in poverty reduction. Such progress has been documented on an annual basis in the PRS progress reports."
- REPOA--Research on Poverty Alleviation (Dar es Salaam, Tanzania)[Founded in 1995] REPOA undertakes and facilitates research. The website includes information on research activities, publications, online library catalogue, etc.
-- REPOA Publications - Tanzania National Business Council (Dar es Salaam)Established in 2001: "[the Council] is the highest consultative organ between the private sector and the Government in the country. It has 40 members sitting with the President of the United Republic of Tanzania as Chairman...The Government has nominated 20 members including one from the academia, and the Tanzania Private Sector Foundation...[which] has an equal number to nominate...One of those representatives from the private sector comes from the labour movement."
- Tanzania Development Partners Group (Dar es Salaam)Downloadable reports and news on the work of this consultant organization. "The Development Partners Group (DPG) recognises the crucial importance of strong national leadership of the development programme in Tanzania. In addressing harmonisation, the DPG seeks to reduce transaction costs for Government. A number of sector coordination groups have been formed to work on both macro and sectoral issues."
- Tanzania Investment Centre Official Website (Dar es Salaam)Basic information for business interests and investment opportunities on behalf of the government of the United Republic of Tanzania.
- TanzaniaInvest (EP Media, Ltd., UK)Produced by a consultant based in the UK, this unofficial site is aimed at investment promotion in Tanzania, with business news briefs on various industries and economic sectors and in-depth reports--requiring free registration.
- Tanzania On-line Information Center (United Nations Development Programme, United Nations Organization, Government of Tanzania, and the Economic & Social Research Foundation, Dar es Salaam, Tanzania)An extensive, searchable archive of documents and reports (1990--) from UN agencies, the World Bank, and the Government of Tanzania on development issues for Tanzania. Abstracts or summaries are viewed in HTML; full texts available in PDF.
- TaTEDO: Tanzania Traditional Energy Development Organization--Centre for Sustainable Energy Services (Dar es Salaam, Tanzania)"[TaTEDO is]...a sustainable energy development organization based in Dar es Salaam, with zonal offices in Shinyanga and Moshi towns, implementing activities in more than ten (10) regions, 30 districts and 70 villages in Tanzania...has more than twenty years’ experience actively involved in sustainable energy development projects and programmes in rural areas."
--Publications
--See also: INFORSE--Africa - Tanzania without poverty: a plain language guide to Tanzania's Poverty Reduction Strategy Paper = Tanzania bila umasikini: kijitabu kinachoelezea kwa lugha rahisi mkakati wa kupunguza umasikini. -- Arusha, Tanzania ; [United Kingdom] : Hakikazi Catalyst Ltd., 2001.Prepared by George Clark ; with the assistance of Dr. Y.I. Rubanza and Prof. H. Mwansoko in translating the text into plain language Kiswahili ; cartoons by Ally Masoud.
- United Nations Development Programme on Tanzania (New York)
- Tanzania Human Development Report 2017: Social Policy in the Context of Economic Transformation (December 2018)
- Human development indicators for Tanzania (2010)
- Poverty and human development, 2002 | 2005 | 2007-2008 | 2009 (All in PDF format)
- The State of Progress in Human Resource Development for Tanzania in 1999 (PDF format)
- Tanzania Human Development Report 2017: Social Policy in the Context of Economic Transformation (December 2018)
- UNFPA--United Nations Population Fund: Search for Tanzania Country Indicators, Policy Developments, and Overview (New York)
- United Nations Habitat on Tanzania (Nairobi, Kenya)
- UN-Habitat on Tanzania: news, statistics, and activities
- Urban profiles and other reports on Tanzania: national, Arusha, Bagamoyo, Dar es Salaam, Morogoro
- United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs: Tanzania (Geneva, Switzerland)
-- Tanzania Floods (November 2023) - United States Agencies on the Tanzanian Economy (Washington, DC)
- United States Agency for International Development (USAID) on Tanzania
- USAID on Tanzania -- Country Information
- USAID Global Health Initiative on Tanzania
- Development Experience Clearinghouse (General)Search the entire USAID database for downloadable (in PDF) reports on projects and studies on Tanzania.
- USAID--Famine Early Warning System Network (FEWS NET) on East Africa
- FEWS NET "Remote Monitoring" on Tanzania (2018)
Current news and analysis of the food security situation on Tanzania -- read online or download as a PDF files; plus links to other FEWS NET resources. - USAID Regional Trade Analytical Agenda (USAID-RTAA, Nairobi, Kenya)
- "Unrecorded cross-border trade between Tanzania and her neighbors: implications for food security," by Chris Ackello-Ogutu and Protase Echessah. PDF file. SD publication / Technical paper ; no. 89 (September 1998).
- United States. Census Bureau. Foreign Trade Statistics:
- United States. Department of Commerce. International Trade Administration: Search by Country--Trade & Industry Analysis
- United States. Energy Information Administration on Tanzania.
- United States Agency for International Development (USAID) on Tanzania
- WaterAid: a development charity (UK)
- WaterAid programs and publications on Tanzania
- Selected documents, 1997-2005, including:
-- $2 billion dollars: the cost of water and sanitation, Millennium Development Targets for Tanzania (brief), February 2005
-- Water and sanitation in Tanzania: an update based on the 2002 Population and Housing Census (brief), July 2005
-- Tanzania--"WAMMA: empowerment in practice," (1997) - WaterAid Home Page
- The World Bank on Tanzania (Washington, DC)
- The World Bank in Tanzania, 2010-
A brief country profile, project reports, news, and related links. - "COVID-19 and the education systems in Tanzania: Brainstorming for a true ed-tech disruption?" (Part II) August 6, 2020
- "COVID-19 and education systems in Tanzania: Brainstorming for a true ed-tech disruption?" (Part I) July 23, 2020.
- Poverty Reduction Strategy Papers, 2000--. (PDF format)
- Tanzania--agriculture, and the World Bank: an OED review (June 1998) OED Impact Evaluation Report ; no. 18111. -- Washington, DC : Operations Evaluations Department, The World Bank, 1998. 42 pages in PDF format
- The World Bank in Tanzania, 2010-
- World Economic Forum on Africa 2010, Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, May 5-7, 2010 (Geneva, Switzerland)"The WEF is a business-centered organization acting as an interface with all stakeholders in society...membership is primarily drawn from the world's 1,000 leading global companies..."
--See also: WEF Home Page - World Health Organization on United Republic of Tanzania (Geneva, Switzerland; Dar Es Salaam, Tanzania)--See also: United Republic of Tanzania WHO Country Office