Tanzania Five Year Development Plan 2011/2012-2015/16.

This plan present the formal implementation tool of the Tanzania’s development agenda, articulate in the Tanzania development Vision 2025.
The overall goal of FYDPI is to unleash country’s resource potentials in order to fast-track the provision of the basic condition for broad-based and pro-poor growth. The targeted average GDP growth rate for the FYDP I period is 8 percent per annum (equivalent to a 5 percent per capita growth target), building up from a 7 percent growth in 2010, and thereafter consistently maintaining growth rates of at least 10 percent per annum from 2016 until 2025.
The targeted growth has been calculated by taking into account Tanzania’s growth record over the past fifteen years, and experiences of countries that managed to reach a middle-income status in the last 30 years.
In order to generate this growth momentum, five crucial elements will be needed: (i) large investments in energy and transport infrastructure, (ii) strategic investments to expand the cotton textile industry, high value crops (horticulture, floriculture, vineyards), targeting maize and rice cultivation under SAGCOT for food self-sufficiency and exports, fertilizer production tapping the large natural gas and phosphate deposits, development of Special Economic Zones (SEZs) to foster manufacturing growth, increase the number of cement factories as well as the development of coal and steel industries, (iii) enhancing skills development, (iv) drastically improving the business environment, (v) institutional reforms for an effective implementation, monitoring and evaluation of the Plan, and (vi) sustaining the agricultural sector to increase its average annual growth rate from 4.4 percent to 6 percent.
In order to make agriculture, forestry and fisheries more productive and sustainable, a number of key strategic will be implemented in order to enhance agricultural transformation sector, including: (i) expand and improve irrigation infrastructure, (ii) ease availability and enhance utilisation of modern agricultural inputs and mechanization, (iii) improve and strengthen availability of scientific production methodologies through research, training, and provision of extension services, (iv) promote agro-processing and value addition activities, (v) climate-compatible agriculture, (vi) improve fisheries resource management, (vii) increase production and productivity of agro-forestry (including soft and hard timber, medicinal plants).
Regarding the reduction of the rural poverty, the plan proposes a number of interventions to address the problem of the magnitude of unemployment among the youth. These include: (i) support and facilitate youth development projects and programmes, by introducing enterprise mentorship programmes, business opportunities support services, and expanding skills-related training in the revived national service programme, (ii) promote the formation of youth cooperatives and joint-ventures, (iii) support community-based financing schemes (SACCOs, community banks) and improve access to finance by setting up special funds that can be accessed by youth entrepreneurs, (iv) mainstream employment creation as an outcome of all key interventions proposed under the Plan, (v) introduce labour intensive technology and work programmes in rural areas, and (vi) increase enrolment in vocational education training institutions, (vii) strengthen agricultural financing.
To enable inclusive and efficient agricultural and food systems, the government plans to implement the following strategies: (i) direct invest in roads with greater advantage for regional integration, (ii) promoting the country’s productive capacity and leveraging the geographical location to enhance competitiveness in order to facilitate producers’ access to market information, and to have an efficient financial service infrastructure to facilitate payment and settlement, (iii) improve resources utilisation and marketing.
To increase the resilience of livelihood to disasters, considering the envisaged rapid expansion of industries, urbanization and the possible execution of large infrastructural projects over the next five years, there is a need to address associated environmental issues. In responding to these challenges, Government will implement a number of strategies, including (i) sustainable management of coastal forest resources, (ii) REDD initiatives and development, (iii) creation of institutional framework to identify, mobilize and monitor global climate finance through earmarked funding for adaptation and mitigation activities, (iv) environmental impact monitoring of large-scale industrial and infrastructural projects, (v) creation of a coherent National Climate Change Strategy.