The USAID Feed the Future Tanzania Enabling Growth through Investment and Enterprise (ENGINE) programme worked with the local government authorities, private sector associations, business development services providers, financial institutions, and micro, small and medium-sized enterprises (MSMEs). DCL was responsible for the programme’s Component I, Implementing Policies for Growth by building the capacity of the public and private sectors to review, reform, and implement policies that support business viability, growth and investment.

As part of its efforts to facilitate public and private policy dialogue between local Tanzanian enterprises and the public sector, the programme designed a tool and framework that help local governments rank the need for reform of policies that may hamper economic growth, such as complicated business registration processes and taxes owed to several departments. The ENGINE’s Policy Reform Priority-setting Tool (PRPT) was introduced to the Iringa, Mbeya, Morogoro, and Zanzibar municipal governments and the regional chambers of commerce, and policy reform recommendations are now ranked using the tool. The Iringa Chamber of Commerce Chairperson, Mwakabungu and Vice Chair of the Tanzania Sunflower Processing Association, Enock Ndondole participated in the first public/ private dialogue session. With the help of the PRPT tool, 69 policy recommendations were made. Business and government technical working groups will continue to use the tool to decide which policies are the most feasible to reform in order to further improve the enabling environment for Tanzanian businesses.