CIAO DATE: 11/2011
October 2011
Danish Institute for International Studies
Tanzania's 1999 land reform has decentralised land administration to the rural local village governments, but implementation so far has been slow and uneven. The local authorities rarely get the support they need to make it work. As a consequence, the benefits promised by the reform - economic growth and improved tenure security - do not happen.
Resource link: The Forgotten Villages - Land Reform in Tanzania [PDF] - 169K