Tanzania: The Developing Country

In 1991, Tanzania government has tried to implement free water for individual households. However, this positive and hopeful proposal got denied and has failed to be implemented due to beneficiaries, technology, and its approach. In 2003, Tanzania was still in the water crisis and World Bank was being pressured. So, Tanzania brought a British Corporate called Biwater to improve the water system in Tanzania. In spite of Biwater Corporate’s water system help, there was no improvement in water supplies and the problems mentioned above continued to occur. Tanzania sued Biwater Company for breach of contract and won the case. To this day, the water system has not fixed yet, but the World Bank is still continuing to work on a water sanitation project. The current goal of this project is to lower or end the water-borne diseases and provide a safe water supply. A project named “Water Supply and Health Project in the Marginal Areas” by IFAD (International Fund for Agricultural Development), and BSF (Belgian Survival Fund) organizations have made it possible to construct 70 wells and each of them could provide fresh water for 5000 to 6000 people. In addition to these two organizations, 25 out of 36 health facilities have been rehabilitated and medical supplies were refilled.

As previously stated , youth unemployment in Tanzania is a current issue. Those unemployed youths tend to commit crimes and vandalize community properties. A reason why Tanzania has such a high youth unemployment is because they drop out of school due to financial issues. Additionally, Tanzania is lacking the number of teachers to teach proper education to the students. World Bank stated that educational improvements were made in Tanzania. The country successfully enrolled millions of children to primary and secondary schools. However, Tanzania’s next challenge is to reform primary and secondary education systems. Reforming its education system will ensure better understanding for children and higher literacy rates.

According to the UNDP challenges, non-infrastructural regions are still depending on rain-fed agriculture. Rain-fed agriculture can only be performed in a hot humid coastal plain. This method can be useful if there are consistent rainfalls but there are days and even weeks that go by without a drop of rain. The IFAD organization proposed that there needs to be some education among rural farmers. IFAD is targeting groups of people that have potential to enhance their agricultural knowledge. The main purpose of this agricultural education is to teach rural farmers to have a better understanding on technologies, boost up their crop productivity, and agricultural produce to help to increase the GDP for the country of Tanzania. Other than rural area support, IFAD proposed that there needs to change in agricultural sectors and reform agricultural strategies.

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Last Update on: November 23rd, 2015