Policies | An Act to provide for reform and consolidation of laws relating to children, to stipulate rights of the child and to promote, protect and maintain the welfare of a child with a view to giving effect to international and regional conventions on the rights of the child; to provide for affiliation, foster care, adoption and custody of the child; to further regulate employment and apprenticeship; to make…

Policies | This report addresses itself on the need to reform the Law Relating to Children in Tanzania. It is a result of concerted efforts of the Law Reform Commission of Tanzania in conjuction with
various government departments, the UNICEF, the Ford Foundation as well as other interested persons and institutions. Before the take off of the research, there were already general indications and fears that…

Policies | The Need for a New Child Law: The children noted that the existing laws were scattered all over the statute books, too old and overtaken by events. The laws do not conform to the standards and requirements of the Convention on the Rights of the Child and the African Charter on the Rights and Welfare of the Child as well as other international best practices. There is thus a need to have a consolidated…

Policies | Duty on the registration of Non Governmental Organizations in Tanzania is divided into different levels so as to facilitate registration at District, Regional, National and International levels respectively. The Law provides for appointment of Public Officers to facilitate registration in the District and Regional levels, where the District Administrative Secretaries (DAS) shall facilitate at the level…

Policies | The socio-economic development of Tanzania is dependent on the full utilization of its human resource, both women and men. The society realizes that the continued marginalization and under-utilization of women who constitute 5.11 percent (population census 2002) of the population is a major obstacle to rapid socio-economic development of the country.

The Government has taken measures to…

Policies | Suala la uzee na kuzeeka limekuwa lenye umuhimu mkubwa kwa jumuiya ya kimataifa hasa kuhusiana na mitazamo ya kiuchumi, kisiasa na kijamii. Taarifa za umoja wa mataifa (1999) zinaonyesha kuwa kumekuwa na ongezeko la idadi ya wazee Duniani. Ongezeko hili linaonekana zaidi katika nchi zinazoendelea ambapo viwango vya ongezeko havilingani na uwezo wa rasilimali zilizopo kuwahudumia katika nyanja za afya,…

Policies | Jamhuri ya Muungano wa Tanzania, Sera ya Maendeleo ya Wanawake na Jinsia ya mwaka 2000

Policies | Community Development Policy 1996

Policies | Jamhuri ya Muungano wa Tanzania, Sera ya Taifa ya Maendeleo ya Vijana ya mwaka 1996

Policies | Since independence, Tanzania has been preparing and implementing policies and programmes directed at the development of the people. In practice this meant that priority was given to the provision of basic services to the people particularly services related to health, education, and safe and clean water. Particular emphisis was placed on development in the rural areas where the majority of the people…