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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. 

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Market Access Challenges

 

  • Limited entrepreneurs who are creative in product design resulting into low competition
  • Inability to attend trade exhibitions to showcase  products
  • Limited business networks
  • Low negotiation skills by the entrepreneurs
  • Large number of taxes paid to various government authorities
  • The current outbreak of COVID-19 from March 2020
  • High competition from both domestic and international markets
  • Low product prices
  • Poor road connection between production zones and market zones
  • Threat from crime and theft cases
  • Limited customers
  • Poor product quality
  • Big number of similar business (no creativity)
  • High transportation costs
  • Lack of conducive business premises
  • Limited banking services in some places
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