The report is the first to provide a whole-of-society perspective on U.S. contributions to Tanzania’s development.
Dar es Salam, Tanzania, June 18, 2024 – New research finds that the United States’ relationship with Tanzania delivered an estimated USD 2.8 billion per year in tangible benefits to the Tanzanian people and economy from 2012 to 2022. The report, Investing in Tanzania’s People | Kuwekeza kwa Watu wa Tanzania, is available online in Kiswahili and English and was produced by AidData, a U.S.-based research lab at William & Mary’s Global Research Institute, in close collaboration with REPOA, a leading Tanzanian policy research organization. The two organizations will co-host an event on June 18th to present the research findings and moderate a panel discussion on key themes from the report.
Tanzania and the U.S. have partnered on economic and development initiatives across multiple sectors since Tanzania’s independence, with significant U.S. government assistance from 2012 to 2022 in agriculture ($546 million), infrastructure ($579 million), and health, particularly around HIV/AIDS ($3.8 billion) and malaria ($533 million). The AidData-REPOA report finds that the U.S. was the single largest provider of HIV/AIDS-related funding by far during the period, helping Tanzania save roughly three-quarters of a million lives.
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