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Quick information guide

Policies promoting access to Market:

  • Trade policy: This was developed to ensure effective participation of Tanzanians in the rule based international trading for meaningful, identifiable and measurable benefits. In addition, the policy aims to facilitate smooth integration into the Multilateral Trading System.
  • National Public Private Partnership Policy: Important to attract investments in the private sector by addressing issues such as access to finance and management and maintenance of public goods and services as well as efficient and effective service delivery
  • Agricultural Sector Support Strategy 0f 2001:  Developed to ensure net-inflow of resources to the agricultural sector for transformation of production technologies
  • Information and Communication Technology (ICT) Policy of 2003:  The policy aims to improve conduct of business, facilitate learning and knowledge sharing, ensure global information flow and ensure economic growth.
  • National Economic Empowerment Policy:  The policy aims to provide a roadmap for the participation of the majority of the citizens of Tanzania in all sectors of the economy

Access to Markets in Tanzania

The Tanzanian local market is growing faster with new opportunities. The rapid growth is attributed to the increasing population, infrastructural development, and the country's political will. 

Women are playing an important role in the development of the Tanzanian economy where they own a big proportion of the businesses. 

According to a survey by the World Bank, the high motivation for running businesses among women comes from the decreasing purchasing power of wage earners and increasing unemployment.

Despite being many to invest in income-generating activities, women still don't have access to means of production such as capital, land and family property. They also face challenges of accessing markets for their products.  

It is critical to encourage this big proportion of the population to access means of production and markets for the products for the economic growth of the country. 

angle-left Government Strategies to Address Market Access Challenges

Government Strategies to Address Market Access Challenges

Legal and Regulatory Strategies

  • Reduction and or removal of bureaucratic procedures which increase costs of doing business unnecessarily
  • Strengthen public private partnership and advocacy to improve performance of the private sector
  • Establishment of market supporting regulatory institutions to improve commercial justice reforms.

Capacity building strategies

  • Inclusion of business and entrepreneurship courses at various levels of the education system in Tanzania
  • Strengthening extension services especially on agronomy, animal husbandry and commodity processing, packaging and delivery
  • Review of the labour law to match the market practices that link merit, efficiency and productivity
  • Manage HIV and AIDS by economic empowerment of the vulnerable population as well as advocating for change in cultural patterns, attitudes and habits which make business community more vulnerable

Private Sector Development

  • Increased access to loans including titled land
  • Increased access to business management skills of the players
  • Increased access to business support services such as management, production and marketing

Agriculture Sector Transformation

  • Ensure net flow of resources to the sector for improved production, commercial farming and agro-processing
  • Promotion of industrialisation by investing in Export Processing Zones (EPZs) and Industrial Parks

Infrastructure Development

  • Accelerate implementation of the Information and Communication Technology (ICT) Policy
  • Reform the credit culture to increase loans for the Small and Medium Enterprises (SME) loans
  • Increases supply and reliability of key services water and electricity
  • Expansion of the transport infrastructure by promoting private building, ownership and operation

Environmental Protection

  • Strengthen environmental regulatory institutions to ensure sustainability in development initiatives

Trade and Gender Balance

  • Ensure equal access to loans, education and skills for both women and men for equal participation in domestic and international trade by implementing related policy initiatives

Regional and International Trade initiatives

  • Increasing export of agricultural related products
  • Support value addition activities in the key sectors i.e. agriculture, tourism and mining
  • Provide conducive environment for investments in commercial farming for both local and foreign investors
  • Modernisation of the services industry with priority in the tourism sector
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