Tanzania Institutional Diagnostic – Chapter 4

Tanzania Institutional Diagnostic

Chapter 4: Civil Service

Chapter outline

1. Introduction
2. The role and political context of the civil service in economic development
   • The transitional phase, 1961–66
   • The socialist phase, 1967–85
   • The liberalisation phase, 1986 to date
3. Constraints to effective civil service performance
   • Civil service capacity
   • Staffing levels
   • Competences and skills
   • Civil service motivation and conduct
   • Policy cycle and environment
   • Resources and working tools
4. Maximising the civil service economic potential: future reform directions
   • Reform dynamics
   • Reform areas and directions
   • Reform sustainability
5. Conclusion
6. Bibliography
7. Discussion of ‘The Civil Service and Economic Development in Tanzania’

Author: Rwekaza Mukandala, University of Dar es Salaam
With discussion by: Jan Willem Gunning, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam