Embassy of Japan in Tanzania

1. Japan's Country Assistance Policy for Tanzania
2. Grassroots Human Security Project

Economic cooperation

Tanzania has made very impressive economic gains and many social transformations have taken place since its independence. However, challenges still remain to reach everyone across Tanzania, which is large and sparsely populated.

Since 1954, the Japanese government has been working closely with the Tanzanian government and its people. Japan has set goals and priorities for bilateral cooperation to assist Tanzania in its development efforts. The priorities of the Japanese assistance include areas such as economic and social infrastructure and increased rice production. We are very pleased to see that the roads, wells and irrigation systems, which have been built through our bilateral assistance programmes, have contributed to the improvement of life. As many Tanzanians remember, a large part of the roads in Dar es Salaam was tarred by Japanese assistance and the names of Japanese contractors such as "Kajima" and "Konoike" are well known as symbols of Japanese high quality work.

There are three pillars of Japanese assistance to Tanzania:

(1) to contribute to the economic growth to reduce poverty, in particular through increased rice production, (2) to develop infrastructure to support economic growth and poverty reduction, in particular through development of transport, power supply and water supply/water resources management and (3) to support the improvement of administrative services for the nation as a whole.

Many Japanese people from various organizations, including NGOs, JICA, as well as private companies, are working hard in various fields to help Tanzanians to achieve poverty reduction.

Donor coordination is highly advanced in Tanzania in order for assistance from various sources be best harmonised to address the challenges faced by the Tanzanian people. Japan, which actively participates in the donor activities, now chairs the transport sector of donors and also co-chairs the agriculture sector.

In June 2012 the Government of Japan renewed and published its country assistance policy for Tanzania. An English translation of the policy is available here..