Tanzania
Background
Tanzania’s national anti-trafficking in persons plan of action expired in 2024.
The leading agency is the Anti-Trafficking in Persons Secretariat supported by Ministry of Home Affairs, Ministry of Health, Community Development, Gender and Elderly, Ministry of Finance and Tanzania Police Force.
The work of the Anti-Human Trafficking and Child Protection Task Force (AHTCP-TF) of the Office of the Public Prosecutor seems now to be a part of the Asset Forfeiture, Trans-national and Specialized Crimes Division.
In 2019 the Ministry of Health, Community Development, Gender and Elderly published the National Guidelines for Establishment and Management of Safe Houses for Victims of Trafficking in Person and Survivors of Violence. The ministry is repsonsble for care provision and shelters.
There is no annual reporting.
Current data is not publicly available.
Tanzania’s supply chains are dominated by mineral exports but there is wide diversity of other products being exported in smaller amounts, particularly commodities.
Imports are heavily dominated by products from China and India.
Criminal enforcement against corporations benefiting from exploitation in supply chains is very limited.
The financial intelligence unit is monitoring the transactions of proceeds from trafficking and produced The National Money Laundering, Terrorist Financing And Proliferation Financing Risk Assessment 2022/2023 in 2022 which includes narrative typologies on human trafficking.
Budgetary reporting of dedicated funding is publicly available but is limited.
Other Key Factors
Wage theft is a significant issue in Tanzania.
93% of employment is informal giving rise to the threat of wage theft without any formal means of redress.
Freedom of association and collective bargaining are lawful and active but significant restrictions seem to exist.
To understand Tanzania’s situation more fully, we show the percentage of the population using the internet in Tanzania, along with the highest usage and lowest usage countries amongst the G20 members (Saudi Arabia and India).
Tanzania’s remittances are also shown with the respective highest and lowest inflow remittance countries in the G20 (India/Saudi Arabia) and the highest and lowest outflow countries in the G20 (US/Philippines). Keep in mind that remittance estimates are often an under count of actual remittance volume.(Graph unit is in Billion US$)
Tanzania’s Role in the Global Economy and Its Supply Chains
Trade flows from The Observatory of Economic Complexity. Remittance from the World Bank.