 Country Program Materials 2010 Congressional Budget Justification
The CBJ summarizes USAID activities and funding in Tanzania. USAID/Tanzania Links  Budget Fact Sheet (pdf,41kb)
Country Profile (pdf,88kb)
Recent Publications & Reports
Global Health: HIV/AIDS
Feed the Future
USAID/Tanzania Mission Web Site:
Mission Director:
Robert Cunnane Local Address:
USAID/Tanzania
686 Old Bagamoyo Road
Msasani
P.O. Box 9130
Dar es Salaam
Tanzania
Tel: 255-22-2294490
Fax: 255-22-266-8421  | A farmer shows off her crop of paprika peppers in Mang'alali village, Iranga region. Tanzania is a focus country for the Feed the Future Initiative, a whole-of-government approach to improving livelihoods and food security. Credit: USAID.
| TanzaniaOVERVIEWTanzania's political stability, sound macroeconomic management, and considerable resources all contribute to Tanzania's great potential for sustained growth. Driven by tourism, mining, trade, and communications, the private sector has grown considerably, with economic growth averaging 7 percent since 2000. Despite these gains, the percentage of people living in poverty has decreased only marginally over the past ten years, while rapid population growth has increased the number of Tanzanians living in poverty by more than a million, overwhelming an already fragile social service system. Tanzania is not on track to achieve the Millennium Development Goal to halve the proportion of people living in poverty by 2015. Tanzania relies heavily on foreign aid, with a third of its budget financed by donors. Lack of basic healthcare and the impact of HIV/AIDS and malaria, low levels of education and agricultural productivity, and corruption persist as major challenges to development. USAID partners with Tanzania to address these issues through programs in democracy, education, health, and economic growth. PROGRAMSGOVERNING JUSTLY AND DEMOCRATICALLYUSAID builds the capacity of civil society to monitor accountability and transparency in local government through public expenditure tracking at the community level. USAID also supports election monitoring and civic education in advance of the October 2010 general elections. INVESTING IN PEOPLE: HEALTHLife expectancy in Tanzania is just 48 years due to HIV/AIDS, the leading cause of death, and malaria, the number one killer of children. USAID supports national efforts to prevent the spread of HIV/AIDS and mitigate its impact, combat malaria, and increase the use of reproductive and child health services. By the end of 2009, U.S. assistance had provided HIV prevention services to over 5 million Tanzanians, treatment to more than 200,000, and care for 750,000 people living with or affected by HIV/AIDS, including 330,000 orphans and vulnerable children. In March 2010, the United States and Tanzania signed a Partnership Framework to scale up prevention efforts while maintaining support for care and treatment. USAID is also a key partner supporting national malaria prevention and case management strategies through education, bednet distribution, indoor spraying, and strengthening of the health care system, especially for children and pregnant mothers. With USAID support, Zanzibar has essentially halted malaria transmission, with prevalence at less than 1 percent, and shifted its focus to sustainability. On the mainland, malaria deaths have dropped by half, from 120,000 in 2005 to 60,000 in 2008, but prevalence remains high. USAID has played a role in reducing infant mortality by 32 percent since 1999, but the rate remains high (112 deaths per 1,000 lives births), as do the rates for maternal mortality and fertility (578 per 100,000 and 5.7 children per woman). Over the next five years, USAID will focus on working to control malaria, prevent mother-to-child HIV/AIDS transmission, provide 6-8 million children with life-saving nutritional supplements, train health workers, improve maternal health facilities, and scale up family planning services. INVESTING IN PEOPLE: EDUCATIONUSAID improves the quality of primary education by targeting reading, math, and science in teacher training, policy, and management. In secondary education, USAID improves girls' opportunities through scholarships, and is working with the government to ensure that all students have access to quality math and science books.
ECONOMIC GROWTH
Tanzania has great potential for agriculture-led economic growth. The country has abundant land, water resources, motivated agricultural entrepreneurs and access to international markets through a major port. Women are already participating in value chain work and there is the opportunity to both engage and empower them as beneficiaries of value chain efforts. The climate is generally favorable for many crops, and with increased irrigation and improved seeds, productivity and yields could rapidly increase.
As a Feed the Future focus country, Tanzania is finalizing an ambitious plan to prioritize agriculture for economic growth, and the Tanzanian government, civil society and private sector have recently demonstrated a commitment to invest in agriculture and food security. The government has endorsed the Kilimo Kwanza (Agriculture First) campaign, a private sector led initiative, and the Southern Agricultural Growth Corridor of Tanzania, a public-private partnership which aims to boost agricultural competiveness by aligning investment in agriculture with existing infrastructure. Feed the Future is a whole-of-government approach that aims to improve the livelihood and nutritional status of households in Tanzania by increasing food availability, access, stability, and utilization and engaging in broad-based partnerships to support country-owned and private sector led growth strategies.
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