Tanzania Cities Transforming Infrastructure & Competitiveness Project

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The Tanzania Cities Transforming Infrastructure and Competitiveness Project will support urban development by strengthening urban management and improving access to basic infrastructure and services in participating urban areas in Tanzania. The theory of change underlying this project is that strengthening urban management will ensure the efficiency and sustainability of prioritized infrastructure and therefore enhance the productivity, livability, and resilience of strategically important cities in Tanzania. Urban management will be strengthened by leveraging ICT to enforce implementation of land use plans and increase own source revenue collection, using performance-based service management contracts operations and maintenance to improve service provision, in solid waste management, sanitation, and drainage. Strengthening urban management functions will require local governments taking on increasing responsibilities for the coordination of planning, implementation of plans, and operations and maintenance; and the national government providing policy and regulatory frameworks, supervision, monitoring, and enforcement. The project will implement basic infrastructure and services in participating urban local government authorities (LGAs) and improve the capacities of these local government institutions to plan, implement and maintain infrastructure and services in the longer term. There will be 45 local government authorities that will participate in the program. This includes those from the previous TSCP (8) and ULGSP (18) along with the inclusion of 19 new entities. All LGAs will receive institutional strengthening support under Component 1 and will be eligible for grants for infrastructure subprojects under Component 2. Subprojects may include urban roads, bus stands, markets, drainage, industrial cluster upgrades, public spaces and solid waste management, among others. Resources under Component 2 will be allocated according to LGA population, for which participating LGAs will be divided into three Tiers. The first, Tier 1 cities, consist of those with projected population of above 250,000 people by 2022 (next census) and population growth rates of above 15% percent. Tier 2 and Tier 3 cities will follow in subproject finalization and implementation. This approach ensures that infrastructure investments support the largest and fastest growing secondary cities in Tanzania while technical assistance activities continue to support other local authorities. Capacity of municipal governments to manage environmental and social issues will be considered in the selection process and technically supported as needed for selected municipalities.