The Tanzania1 Country Strategy Paper for 2011-2015 assesses the country‘s development
challenges and prospects, and guides Bank Group‘s support to the priorities expressed in the new
national development strategy 2
. The Country Strategy lays emphasis on selectivity and rests on a
single overarching theme: supporting Tanzania become a more competitive economy and achieve
inclusive growth aimed at reducing poverty. This theme is anchored on two complementary pillars:
(i) infrastructure development; and (ii) building an enabling institutional and business environment.
2. The preceding Bank Group Strategy (2006-2010) was drawn from the Joint Assistance Strategy
for Tanzania (JAST), the Joint Program Document (JPD) and presented in an accompanying Cover
Note.3
The three documents were approved by the Board of Directors in 2007. The Joint Assistance
Strategy expired in 2010. Nonetheless, development partners have principally agreed to continue
working in the spirit of the JAST while deciding on how best to proceed with future collaborations.
Accordingly, the Bank and several other partners are progressing with preparation of their respective
assistance strategies; consistent with the new national development plan.4
3. Preparation of this Strategy benefited from elaborate consultations with Government,
development partners, private sector and civic institutions—including research and academic
concerns. It incorporates lessons from the 2006-2010 JAST and is underpinned by analytic and
diagnostic knowledge products. In addition to optimally utilizing Tanzania‘s performance based
concessionary resources allocation, the Strategy position