Global Integrity Report: Tanzania - 2010
This peer-reviewed country report includes:
Integrity Indicators Scorecard: Scores, scoring criteria, commentary, references, and peer review perspectives for more than 300 Integrity Indicators.
Reporter's Notebook: An on-the-ground look at corruption and integrity from a leading local journalist.
Corruption Timeline: Ten years of political context to today's corruption and integrity issues.
HIGHLIghts
Tanzania’s overall performance in Global Integrity’s 2010 Report remains dishearteningly similar to the last assessment that was carried out three years ago. Then, as now, efforts to implement and enforce the country’s laws to curb corruption are weak. Similarly, several oversight agencies and related institutions face low levels of transparency and accountability, including an ineffective anti-corruption agency with few resources to pursue investigations and a Controller and Auditor General that tend to avoid investigating politically sensitive issues. A Freedom of Information bill has yet to be adopted or operationalized after being drafted in 2006. Regulations governing the political financing of parties and candidates are either absent or poorly enforced. Although elections are generally fair, there are no government electoral monitoring agencies that are established under legislation; only independent civil society organizations monitor elections. While police are recruited and hired based on professional criteria, “political loyalty is expected in the execution of duties.” There are, however, a few encouraging signs. The legal framework for public procurement is tight, while anti-corruption CSOs remain engaged and vibrant.