Tanzania, United Republic of
Overview of national employment policies
- Has national employment policy
- Yes
- Adoption of national employment policies
- 1ST revision in 2008
- Is the NEP under revision?
- Yes
Additional information:
Zanzibar is actually formulating an employment policy.Dialogue and stakeholders in the formulation process
- National
- Ministry in charge of employment
- Yes
- Trade unions
- Yes
- children
- -
- Other
- Yes
- Employers’ organisations
- Yes
- Regional
- No
- Local
- children
- -
- N.A.
- Yes
- N.A.
- -
Coordinating actor in formulating the employment policy
- Ministry in charge of employment/labour
- Yes
- Ministry in charge of economy/finance/planning
- -
- Sectoral ministry
- -
- Other
- -
- N.A.
- -
Additional information:
Ministry of Labour, Employment and Youth Development.Employment policy goals
- Economic growth
- -
- Decent work
- -
- Employment as central to development strategy
- -
- Employment creation /promotion
- -
- Ensure equal opportunities / prevent discrimination in employment
- -
- Freely chosen employment
- Yes
- Full employment
- Yes
- Poverty reduction
- -
- Productive employment
- Yes
- Protection of workers' rights
- -
- Reduce unemployment
- Yes
- Reduce underemployment
- Yes
- Social inclusion
- -
- Environment/green jobs
- -
- Other
- -
- N.A.
- -
Additional information:
The overall objective is to stimulate national productivity, to attain full, gainful and freely chosen productive employment, in order to reduce unemployment, underemployment rates and enhance labour productivity.Strategic objectives
- Strategic objectives
- POLICY ISSUES AND STATEMENTS:
1. Creating a common understanding of the employment and unemployment concepts;
2. Accelerating and Making the Pattern of Economic Growth more employment intensive;
3. Enhancing an effective and efficient Labour Market Information (LMI) system;
4. Balancing the number of new entrants and the proportion that can get paid employment;
5. Improvement and Transformation of the Informal Sector for creating decent jobs;
6. Enhancing the Promotion of Youth employment;
7. Facilitating Tanzanian jobseekers to acquire appropriate skills;
8. Reducing Rural Unemployment and Underemployment and Rural to Urban Migration;
9. Empowerment of individuals through enhancing accessibility to business support services including capital, markets access for Private Sector entrepreneurs including self employers for increased productivity and incomes;
10. Enhancing the capacity of the domestic private sector investors in creating new and better employment opportunities;
11. Mainstreaming Employment as a cross-cutting issue;
12. Harmonizing policies and establishing institutional framework for effective and efficient coordination of employment creation initiatives and deliveries;
13. Rationalising the Employment of foreigners in Tanzania;
14. Reducing the impact of HIV/AIDS and other diseases on employment creation and at the workplaces;
15. Improving access to employment opportunities and productive resources for People with Disabilities (PWDs);
16. Mainstreaming Environmental issues in employment creation;
17. Promoting Human Capital Development as part of the national strategic objective for growth, employment and poverty reduction;
18. Supporting Research and Development (R&D), for providing inputs for Employment Policy and Legal reforms for enhancing employment creation and poverty reduction interventions;
19. Improving and expanding Employment Services;
20. Facilitating and coordinating employment of Tanzanians abroad and the return of skilled Tanzanians to fill skills gaps;
21. Improving Employment Conditions and respect for Labour Rights;
22. Eliminating Child Labour;
23. Improving and Expanding Employment Related Social Protection Services;
24. Mainstreaming Gender in Employment.
Employment targets
- Employment opportunities
- Yes
- Adequate earnings and productive work
- -
- Decent hours
- -
- Work that should be abolished
- -
- Equal opportunity and treatment in employment
- -
- Social security
- -
- Social dialogue - Workers' and employers' representation
- -
- Other
- -
Additional information:
The government will endeavor to create conducive environment that will facilitate the attainment of higher employment growth and reduce unemployment rate to a level below 7%.Action plan for implementation
- National action plan
- -
- Subnational action plan
- -
Coordination framework
- NEP coordination framework?
- NA
Monitoring indicators
- Employment opportunities
- -
- Adequate earnings and productive work
- -
- Decent hours
- -
- Work that should be abolished
- -
- Equal opportunity and treatment in employment
- -
- Social security
- -
- Social dialogue - Workers' and employers' representation
- -
- Other
- -
Target groups
- Youth
- Yes
- Women
- Yes
- Informal workers
- Yes
- Rural workers
- Yes
- Older persons
- -
- People with disabilities
- Yes
- Migrants workers
- Yes
- Other
- Yes
- N.A.
- -
- No target group
- -
Additional information:
Other: child workers, jobseekers, HIV/AIDS affected workers.