Tanzania Institutional Diagnostic – Chapter 6

Tanzania Institutional Diagnostic

Chapter 6: Land Rights

Chapter outline

1. Overview
2. A brief historical perspective on land tenure issues
3. Legal land tenure in Tanzania according to the 1999 Land Act
   • Rights of occupancy
   • Land transformation by the state and the issue of compensation
4. The distribution of actual land tenure status in Tanzania
5. Institutional framework for land administration
   • Institutional mandates on grant and allocation of land rights
   • Institutional mandates on disposition
   • Institutional mandates on dispute settlement
6. Institutional issues and challenges
   • Duality of tenure
   • Immense powers of eminent domain
   • Limited formalisation
   • Gender discrimination
   • Institutional overlaps
   • Corruption and inefficient land administration
   • Ineffective land dispute settlement framework
   • Inadequate resources
7. Concluding remarks and recommendations
8. References
9. Improving land tenure in Tanzania, a discussion of Land rights and the law in Tanzania: institutional issues and challenges

Author: Dr S.J. Mramba, The Law School of Tanzania
With discussion by: Klaus Deininger, World Bank