The Urban Sector Rehabilitation Project
(URSP) consisted of a large program of infrastructure
rehabilitation works and institutional reform activities
covering 8 project towns - Arusha, Iringa, Morogoro, Mbeya,
Moshi, Mwanza…
During the 1970s and 1980s in Tanzania,
there was a widespread perception, though a somewhat narrow,
and inaccurate one, that high and accelerating rates of
deforestation in some areas, was primarily being driven by
demand…
The Government of Tanzania has, in
recent years, focused on revitalizing its mining sector in
order to attract foreign investment, with the goal of
raising its contribution to Tanzania's Gross Domestic
Product. With the…
Conservation is often viewed as a
tradeoff between the development of short-term benefits and
protection for long-term benefits. However, with the
appropriate mechanisms, it is possible to achieve both aims.
The…
A Green Growth Investment Framework for the Southern Agricultural Growth Corridor of Tanzania
Includes history of the Katumba settlement, lack of communication about relocation, refugee outlook, environmental impacts.
This Interim Report has been prepared mid-way through the study as a record of the study team's initial findings and as a roadmap for completion of the assessment.
This book is designed to contribute to
the government's thinking on how best to translate
broad MKUKUTA (the government of Tanzania's National
Strategy for Growth and Reduction of Poverty) policy
objectives into…
Studies of risk and its consequences
tend to focus on one risk factor, such as a drought or an
economic crisis. Yet 2003 household surveys in rural
Kilimanjaro and Ruvuma, two cash-crop-growing regions in
Tanzania that…
Tanzania's Pilot Rural Investment
Climate Assessment (RICA) measures the economic environment
of non-farm entrepreneurs. The pilot assessment has three
key objectives: it aims to better understand the rural
non-farm…
Tanzania's National Strategy for
Growth and Reduction of Poverty (NSGRP) sets an ambitious
target of 6 to 8 percent annual economic growth to achieve
rapid reduction in poverty. This report focuses on three
issues that…