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Country Program Materials
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USAID/Tanzania Links
USAID/Tanzania
Mission
www.usaid.gov/tz
Mission Director:
Local Address:
- 686 Old Bagamoyo Road
Msasani
Dar es Salaam
Tanzania
Tel: 255-22-266-8490
Fax: 255-22-266-8421
From the US:
- DOS/USAID
2400 Dar Es Salaam Place
Washington, D.C.
20521-2140
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USAID's Strategy in Tanzania Since its first multi-party elections in 1995, the Government
of Tanzania (GOT) has successfully pursued an economic reform
agenda that is controlling inflation, attracting investment,
and sustaining annual gross domestic product (GDP) growth
rates among the best in sub-Saharan Africa. Nevertheless,
Tanzania's political and economic development is impeded by
several harsh realities, including structural obstacles to
enhanced economic growth, institutional and human capacity
limitations, corruption, the government's uneasy relationship
with civil society organizations, high population growth,
high rates of infectious disease and unsustainable natural
resource exploitation.
Tanzania ranked 140 out of 162 countries in the 2001 United
Nations Development Program (UNDP) Human Development Index.
According to the GOT's Household Budget Survey 2000/01, poverty
is most severe in the countryside where about 40 percent of
the population lives below the basic needs poverty line. Illiteracy
rates are high and overall quality of education remains low.
Life expectancy is low and falling; whereas the infant mortality
rate is high and rising. Both phenomena are largely attributable
to a national HIV/AIDS infection rate of about 12 percent.
Democracy remains on shaky footing. Observers deemed Tanzania's
1995 and 2000 elections to have been free and fair on the
mainland, but deeply flawed in Zanzibar, where violence and
bloodshed followed the 2000 election. A repeat in 2005 could
have a strong negative impact on Tanzania's political stability. The U.S. interests are to keep Tanzania stable while assisting
it to accelerate economic and political development and support
Tanzania's positive influence in the region. Tanzania is a
stable country in a volatile region, progressing on a path
of democratic governance and market-based economic reform
and growth. Tanzania plays a constructive role among its neighbors,
exerting leadership in efforts to resolve regional conflicts
peacefully and in hosting more than half a million refugees. |
