Chief national counterpart:

Ministry of Industry and Trade

Board of External Trade (BET)

Cooperation arrangements will be established with a network of support institutions, both private and public, such as the Tanzania Bureau of Standards, TCCIA, TANEXA, SIDO etc., as required by the respective activities foreseen under PACCIA/PACT. The core partner institutions will be represented in a PACCIA/PACT Steering Committee, which will guide the implementation of the programme.

The United Republic of Tanzania is one of four countries included in the pilot phase of PACCIA/PACT, together with Senegal, Ghana, and South Africa.  The programme will deliver a range of targeted, high-priority activities, which were identified in cooperation with the country’s export support organizations, in a joint ITC/TFOC programming mission to Tanzania. The programme will build on current and past trade related initiatives in Tanzania and other TRTA organizations.

The programme ‘PACCIA/PACT – Tanzania’ will be implemented in two phases, for which the following concrete results are anticipated:

• Through the visit to Tanzania of ITC and TFOC packaging experts, a work plan has been developed for a series of activities to be carried out in Phase II aimed at improving product packaging in the country. Selected manufacturers and packaging sector firms received tailored advice on their product packaging designs, through a seminar and related plant visits by the experts, carried out in cooperation with the Bureau of Standards.

• A study has been produced documenting the export opportunities open in the Canadian market to Tanzanian exporters, in part arising from the removal of most import Canadian tariffs and quotas on Tanzanian goods as of January 2003. (A Guide to Expanding Tanzanian Exports to Canada - pdf file)

• Tanzania’s industry and supporting product packaging firms will have developed upgraded packaging of industrial and agricultural products, leading to increased exports, through improved packaging design, packaging technology, and materials testing.

• Producers and exporters in the horticulture sector will have increased capacity for competing on the international market through the development of a sector work plan, leading to creation of a sector association, a substantive SME producer database and network, awareness on the part of producers and exporters of the requirements of the European market, and development of a product marketing logo.   

• Producers and exporters in the spice sector will have increased capacity for competing on the international market through the establishment of a spice sector association, creation of a substantive producer database and network, awareness of the requirements of the European and Canadian markets, a product marketing logo, improvement in product standards, and through direct input and training support to producer groups.

• Producers and exporters in the handicraft sector will have achieved increased capacity for competing on the international market through a range of export support activities, possibly including: creation of an expanded, virtual, on-line trade exhibition; improved product design; and an importer mission to Tanzania from Canada. 

• Tanzania’s exporters and related support institutions will benefit from increased access to international market information and wider dissemination of product offers through enhancement of the current trade portal and Trade information systems.

• Gender equity is a concern throughout the programme's activities, which have as target that one third of the beneficiaries of capacity building efforts at the institutional and enterprise levels are women.

In addition to the country programmes for the core countries in PACT, a Gender and Trade Initiative entitled "ACCESS! for African Businesswomen in International Trade" complements the country specific programmes, with the objective of expanding the overall PACCIA/PACT programme’s outreach.

Aiming at the promotion of intra-African trade opportunities, this regional initiative is addressing some of the typical constraints faced by African women entrepreneurs along the path of exporting such as access to training, business support services and business networks.