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| Switzerland contributes to Tanzania's efforts to reduce
poverty and improve the well-being of the people sustainably
and equitably by fostering economic growth, particularly among
the rural poor, enhancing social and physical well-being,
with special attention on HIV/AIDS, promoting gender balanced
development and good, pro-poor governance, with decentralised
democratic decision-making. Mobility & transport aspects
are dealt with in the “economic growth and asset development
for the poor” component.
- Below you find
a short description of the mobility related interventions
in Tanzania
- On the SDC
Tanzania website you find more about the Country Programme
- On the SDC
website you find more about Tanzania and the Swiss commitment
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Programs/Projects |
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- Road Sector Support Project (RSSP) /
Village Travel and Transport Project (VTTP) -
phased out
The infrastructure & transport sector in Tanzania
has been under SDC support for about twenty years. The
support started with rural roads rehabilitation &
maintenance at District level in Morogoro Region (1980-89),
then changed to the Regional level support (Morogoro Roads
Support Project 1990-2000). In addition, from 1998 SDC
supported the Village level on pilot basis in Morogoro
District. From on 2000, SDC extended its support to the
national level, district level and village level through
the Roads Sector Support Programme and the Village Travel
and Transport Project.
The overall goal of SDC support in the sector was to
contribute to an efficiently managed road network that
furthers agricultural marketing and improves access to
social and economic services through removal of transport
constraints. In order to achieve this goal, SDC put emphasis
on facilitating the establishment of sustainable maintenance
systems within the local institutions and the road sector
reforms, i.e. the establishment of a Road Fund and an
autonomous Roads Agency (TANROADS).
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- Rural Livelihood Development Programme (RLDP)
The Rural Livelihood Development Programme
(RLDP) aims at poverty reduction through income increase
and better access to services in rural areas with the
support of the private sector. Through the RLDP operations,
poor Tanzanian households and communities are enabled
to step out of their subsistence livelihood and participate
in market-driven activities to realise higher incomes.
RLDP follows a value chain approach which analyses economic
processes, their potentials and addresses their constraints
in order to increase the value being created along the
production-processing chain. The programme acts as a facilitator,
emphasising on skill development and extension services.
It further facilitates business development services and
promotes financial services. Support to infrastructure
is mainly seen to improve mobility as well as transport,
storage and marketing of products.
RLDP intends to reach the target population through the
support of their demand driven project initiatives. For
project implementation, RLDP seeks the cooperation with
private sector companies, trusts, NGO, etc. as implementing
partners or providers of services. Programme management
itself is done through a “not-for-profit”
company being set up for programme supervision, planning
and implementation. SDC has mandated a consortium consisting
of Intercooperation and Swisscontact to provide technical
assistance for the implementation of RLDP and to set up
the company with consortium members as founder members.
For this first phase (04.2005 – 03.2008), a budget
of CHF 12’500’000 has been approved and should
allow at any moment of time a project portfolio of about
8 to 12 projects.
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