Tanzania
Population (World Bank): 61,498,438 (2021)
Metal/Ore Exports (% of Total Merchandise Exports, World Bank): 4.0% (2021)
Petroleum Production (Million barrels per day, EIA): 0 Mb/d (2021)
Human Development Index (World Rank, UNDP): 163
2021 Resource Governance Index Score, Mining Sector (NRGI): 58/100
2021 Resource Governance Index Score, Oil and Gas Sector (NRGI): 55/100
EITI Status: Meaningful Progress
Link to key economic information (Atlas of Economic Complexity)
Policy documents that include local content relevant provisions:
The Petroleum (Natural Gas Midstream And Downstream) General Regulations, 2020
Natural Wealth and Resources (Permanent Sovereignty) Act, 2017
Mining (Minimum Shareholding and Public Offering) Regulations, 2016
Tanzania Extractive Industries (Transparency and Accountability) Act, 2015
Local Content Relevant News:
October 2022 – Suppliers want action over local content policy breach
July 2022 – Mining Local Content Regulations Amended
March 2022 – Local Content Scales Up in Oil, Gas Sector
September 2021 – Member of the Association of Tanzania Oil and Gas Service Providers (ATOGS), GF Trucks, partners with the Geita Mining Association to produce trucks for Tanzanian use (Swahili)
August 2021 – Barrick Keen to Implement Local Content Regulations
May 2021 – Tanzania Starts Refining Gold to International Standards
March 2019 – Tanzania Relaxes Protectionist Regulations in Mining Sector
November 2018 – Tanzania Partners with DRC to Process Cobalt
September 2018 – Acacia to Relocate Core Functions to Tanzania in 2019
February 2018 – Tanzania Lays Down the Law on Local Participation in Mining Sector
February 2018 – Tanzania’s New Mining Law Will Compel Foreign Companies to Boost Local Financial Firms
April 2017 – Acacia Mining Stated it Lost $60 Million Due to the Recent and Sudden Ban on Raw Gold Ore Exports (Paywall)
Analysis and Case Studies:
Chuwa and Mrema (2022) – Strengths, Weaknesses, and Opportunities of Local Content Policy, Legal, and Institutional Framework in the Upstream Natural Gas Sector in Tanzania
Jesse Salah Ovadia (2022) – Addressing gender inequality through employment and procurement: Local content in Tanzania's emerging gas industry (Paywall)
Racheal Chagonja (2019) – Extractive Resources-Industrialization Linkages: Opportunities, Challenges, and Lessons for Tanzania
Foubert and Merket (2019) – Dissecting the Social License to Operate: Local Community Perceptions of Industrial Mining in Northwest Tanzania
Andrews and Nwapi (2017) – A “New” Developmental State in Africa? Evaluating Recent State Interventions vis-à-vis Resource Extraction in Kenya, Tanzania, and Rwanda
Shepherd and Honwana Welch (2017) – Developing Businesses of Scale in Sub-Saharan Africa: Insights from Nigeria, Tanzania, Uganda and Zambia
Kinyondo and Villanger (2017) – Local Content Requirements in the Petroleum Sector in Tanzania: A Thorny Road from Inception to Implementation? (Paywall)
Calignano and Vaaland (2017) – Supplier Development in Tanzania; Experiences, Expectations and Motivation (Paywall)
Lemayon L. Melyoki (2017) – The Governance of the Petroleum Sector in Tanzania: Institutional Arrangements and the Role of the National Oil Company (Paywall)
Columbia Center on Sustainable Investment (2016) – Local Content: Tanzania - Petroleum
Columbia Center on Sustainable Investment (2016) – Local Content: Tanzania - Mining
Kinyondo and Lange (2016) – Resource Nationalism and Local Content in Tanzania: Experiences From Mining and Consequences for the Petroleum Sector (Paywall)
Kinyondo and Lange (2016) – Local Content in the Tanzanian Mining Sector
Wineaster Anderson (2016) – Local Suppliers in Tanzania: Ready for the Petroleum Sector?
Clyde&Co (2013) – Tanzania’s 4th Offshore Licensing Round: A Regulatory Recap
Mjimba (2011) – The Nature and Determinants of Linkages in Emerging Minerals Commodity Sectors: A Case Study of Gold Mining in Tanzania
Perkins and Robbins (2011) – The contribution to local enterprise development of infrastructure for commodity extraction projects: Tanzania’s central corridor and Mozambique’s Zambezi Valley
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