The Tanzania Housing and Population Census 2022: A Panacea for Local Service Delivery and Development Drawbacks
Keywords:
Census, Local Service Delivery, Local Development, PanaceaAbstract
Tanzania will undertake a population and housing census in 2022 to determine the nature, type, number, and other related characteristics of its population and housing. But what this process implies to Local Government Authorities (LGAs) on service delivery and local development? Using the secondary sources approach this paper answers this question by disclosing the drawbacks confronting LGAs on service delivery and local development, which probably result from a lack of data on population and housing or poor integration of previous census data that require the 2022 census a remedy. The drawbacks are focused on LGAs’ failures in education health services, 10 percent of LGAs budget as loans for women, youth, and people with disabilities, and revenue collection failures. Such failures hinder LGAs toward full-service delivery and local development. The studied view is that the 2022 census can be a panacea for such failures if LGAs are ready to integrate the 2022 census data in their plans as a foundation for service delivery and local development. The paper recommends LGAs to participate fully in the process and be ready to use the census results to plan, implement and monitor the development process and in delivering services.
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