National Five Year Development Plan 2021/22–2025/26.

This Third National Five Year Development Plan (FYDP III) for the period 2021/2026 is a nationwide multisector document aiming at achieving the goals set in the National Development Vision 2025. The main areas included in the Plan are (i) increasing the country’s capacity for production; (ii) building a competitive economy that will stimulate the country’s participation in trade and investment; and (iii) stimulate human development. In achieving the priority areas of the Plan, the strategic objectives of the FYDP III are (i) improve key productive infrastructures including roads, railways, water, and air transport as well as reliable access to energy; (ii) strengthen the business and investment enabling environment through effective policies to facilitate free private-sector competition; and (iii) improve and strengthen education and training systems, including reforming the education curriculum in line with labor market demand as well as integrating research and development with productive economic activities. To achieve these objectives, main efforts will be directed to (i) identification of interventions designed to improve the competitiveness of the country (also through a transformative participation of the private sector and non-state actors in the competitive economy); (ii) interventions to further deepen industrialization; (iii) trade and investment to increase Tanzania’s participation in global and regional trade; (iv) social development, emphasizing coverage, equity and quality of services to attain inclusive economy; and (v) skills development.
To help eliminate hunger, the Plan focuses on improved agricultural production, achieved through the introduction of modern crop management systems, and an increased storage capacity.
To make agriculture, fisheries, and forestry more productive and sustainable, the following is envisaged (i) expand sustainable water and land use management through integrated land use planning and improvement of irrigation systems; (ii) transform and commercialize the sector improving climate-smart agriculture (CSA); (iii) use science technology and innovation/research and development to improve productivity and quality in crop farming, fishing, forest and mining activities; (iv) incentive farmers to invest, beyond food security needs, for sustainably increasing productivity and incomes, adapt and build resilience to climate change, and where possible reduce and/or remove greenhouse gas emissions; (v) sensitize and facilitate livestock keepers to improve their herds by raising livestock breeds that produce high quantity and quality of milk, meat, and eggs; (vi) strengthen animal diseases surveillance systems; (vii) increase the number of water infrastructure for livestock; (viii) facilitate research in livestock, livestock products and conservation of livestock breeds and strengthen livestock gene bank; (ix) increase the number of extension officers and facilitate the availability of improved extension service; (x) strengthen fisheries research and improve appropriate fisheries technologies; (xi) promote afforestation.
Rural poverty can be tackled by (i) ensuring access to financial services for most poor households in urban and rural areas; (ii) promoting and developing renewable energy technologies and projects (biogas, geothermal, LPG, solar, and wind energies) particularly for rural households.
More inclusive and efficient agricultural and food systems will be enhanced by (i) increasing the private sector share of the local and foreign markets in agricultural products, with particular attention to cash crops, by increasing support through an enabling production, marketing, and export environment backed by improved awareness of standards, increased access to capital, acquisition of new knowledge on production, storage, processing, packaging, logistics, quality assurance, and marketing; (ii) increasing the number and capacity of processing industries for livestock products; (iii) creating favorable environments for the private sector to engage profitably in production and export of agricultural raw materials, semi-final and finished goods; (iv) strengthening effective training and research programs to benefit key stakeholders including youth, women and people with disabilities; (v) encouraging the use of ICT in operation of agriculture cooperatives; (vi) improving livestock markets, modern abattoirs and the construction of milk collection centers; (vii) increasing fishing processing industries along coastal areas and lakes; (viii) supporting investment in fisheries and aquaculture infrastructure and facilities including promotion of commercial aquaculture production; (ix) improving the beekeeping sub sector.
To increase the resilience of livelihoods to disasters, main interventions shall be (i) strengthen environmental conservation and protection to mitigate adverse effects of climate change; (ii) social development, including health and education, human settlements, clean and safe water, and environment, paying attention to equitable access, gender and people with disabilities; (iii) strengthen sustainable use and management of oil and natural gas; (iv) develop renewable energy sources for cooking to mitigate climate change; (v) conserve marine and freshwater fisheries protected areas; (vi) develop and implement strategies to combat poaching, illegal trade and illegal harvesting of wildlife, forest, bee and antiquities resources in the country; (vii) promote biodiversity conservation; (viii) develop climate change adaptation and impacts mitigation measures and reduce land degradation; (ix) minimize environmental pollution and resultant adverse effects on the environment and human health; (x) establish programs and mechanisms for management, monitoring and assessment of water and wastewater quality; (xi) strengthen conservation and protection programs of water resources and water sources.
As for Governance, in implementing the Third Five Year National Development Plan the Government will focus on stimulating an inclusive and competitive economy, strengthening industrial production capabilities and service delivery, promoting investment and trade, bringing development to our citizens and building human resource capacity. To facilitate its implementation, this Plan has been developed in line with the Implementation Strategy which is divided into three implementation plans (i) the Action Plan including all activities and objectives intended for whole period of implementation; (ii)the Financing Strategy that shows how to avail funding for development projects; (iii) the Monitoring and Evaluation Strategy to know whether the intended results are being met and prompt corrective measures whenever needed to ensure delivery of the intended results.