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TANZANIA receives an overall "Very Weak" rating in the 2006 Global Integrity Index. The Index assesses national anti-corruption policies and practices in countries around the world. For a printer-friendly .PDF version of this report click here.
This peer-reviewed country report includes:
Integrity Indicators Scorecard: Scores, scoring criteria, commentary, references, and peer review perspectives for all 290 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.
Country Facts: Statistical context for each country.
Global Integrity country reports are generated by an in-country team comprising a lead journalist (who prepares the Reporter's Notebook), a lead researcher (who initially scores the Integrity Indicators), and three to five peer reviewers. Global Integrity staff in Washington coordinate the input from all team members and are responsible for final content. For a full description of our methodology and research process please click here.
Reporter's Notebook
There is a loud cry ringing out in every Tanzanian city: the outcry over corruption in the Ministry of Land, Housing and Human Settlement. Dubious deals have found their lucrative place in this ministry: residential and commercial houses on public open spaces, double allocation of plots and the haphazard mushrooming of petrol stations, among other violations. In a 2005 report, the Prevention of Corruption Bureau (PCB) confirmed that corruption was deep-rooted in the land sector, revealing, among other travesties, that property appraisers collaborated with land officers to falsify title deeds. Approving and issuing building permits is such a slow process that citizens are compelled to pay bribes for every stage, from typing the certificate to obtaining the land commissioner's signature, often totaling some 135,000 shillings (US$105) on top of official fees.
President Benjamini Mkapa, whose administration ended in November 2005, had vowed to adopt openness and transparency, but failed to live up to his promise. Land Minister John Magufuli told Parliament in August 2006 that his officials were "dirty", and that some, including Deputy Minister Rita Mlaki, owned questionable plots for speculative purposes. Ms. Mlaki refutes the allegations, but the new president, Mr. Jakaya Kikwete, has admitted that the Land Ministry is one of the government's most corrupt.
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