Habitat III National Report Tanzania

Tanzania implemented extensive policy, legislative and structural reforms taken
and taken several other measures to fulfil her commitments to the Habitat II
Agenda. Yet achieving the objectives of "shelter for all" and "sustainable human
settlements in an urbanizing world" has remained elusive, due to financial and
human resource limitations of the urban authorities and rapid urbanization. Lack
of access to affordable housing, finance, land and services has resulted in most of
the urban growing in the form of informal settlements. Tanzania is therefore faced
with the daunting task of rolling over the unfinished Habitat II Agenda objectives
into the Habitat III process.
Data for the Habitat III national report was collected from many source – primary
and secondary – including an Urban Dwellers Survey, conducted in 2015, in five
urban areas selected to represent the geographical spread and diversity of
Tanzania’s urban settlements, namely:

•  Dar es Salaam: The primate city, in the east coast zone;
•  Mwanza: An intermediate city in the Lake Zone;
• Dodoma: A municipality in the Central Zone and Tanzania’s nominal capital;
• Kyela: A flood prone district town in the southern zone; and
•  Mererani: A Non-administrative mining township located in the northernzone.