Tanzania

Research and activites

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DIIS Comment

2018

Development aid may help African governments maintain power

Even when aid is targeted at the world’s poor, there is a political side to it
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Working papers etc.

2018

Tanzanian government and donors’ uneasy relationship over health financing

Different views on political risks associated with mandatory insurance
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Working papers etc.

2018

Cash transfer scheme helped government win elections in Tanzania

Donors are aware of risk but keep funding
DIIS Working Paper

2018

State caught in the middle

Local communities under pressure to support state-led extractive investments
Journal Article

2018

Resource nationalism on the rise in Tanzania under President Magufuli

But continuities from previous administration are pronounced
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Journal Article

2017

Strong states a threat and boon to communities in Africa’s extractive sectors

Ambivalence as reforms strengthen state-owned enterprises in Tanzania
DIIS Working Paper

2017

Proposed Tanzanian Land Policy addresses some shortcomings

But better protection of vulnerable groups is still needed
DIIS Working Paper

2017

Huge potential for private forestry in Tanzania

But non-industrial tree-growers are overlooked in policies and by institutions
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Presentation

29 June 2017

Sustaining peace in natural resource conflicts

DIIS researchers present recent evidence at FAO seminar
Journal Article

2017

Land shapes relations between international oil companies and local communities in Africa

But state actors have a decisive influence on how land is acquired
DIIS Working Paper

2017

Regulatory capacity has increased in Tanzania’s oil and gas sector

But the East African country still struggles to keep abreast of markets
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Research programme

8 December 2016

Timber Rush research program launched at DIIS

Surge in private forest investments in Tanzania
DIIS Working Paper

2016

State companies are back in Tanzania's extractive sectors

State takes on new role in post-structural adjustment era
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21 September 2016

AIDA research team is complete

Four new PhD candidates join the AIDA team in Tanzania and Uganda
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Journal Article

2016

Tanzanian land is largely controlled by Tanzanians

Foreign investors only acquire land when they are allowed to
Journal Article

2015

Oil gas and mineral exploitation creates economic growth but few jobs

Job creation depends to a great extent on local politics
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Programme launch

23 October 2015

Natural resource investments in Africa

New research programme on investments and rights to land
Book

2015

Job creation in sub-Saharan Africa

a comparative perspective
DIIS Working Paper

2015

The changing politics of natural gas in Tanzania

Despite a slowdown in activities, the government's bargaining position has strengthened
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Journal Article

2015

Women in Tanzania better off due to land reform

However, access to land becomes socially more uneven
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12 November 2014

Natural resource conflicts and the role of religion

Experience from Myanmar and Tanzania
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13 August 2014

Tanzania’s New Wave Land Reform: a Matter of Institutionalisation

Reform may have a systemic impact, but long-term engagement is required
DIIS Working Paper

2013

Tanzania has one of the most gender-sensitive land reforms. But implementation lags behind

There is a gap between the legal framework and what is happening on the ground
DIIS Report

2013

Report: Social Accountability Mechanisms and Access to Public Service Delivery in Rural Africa

The ability of citizens to make claims and hold those who exercise power to account
Journal Article

2013

Reshaping Conservation

New article on the social dynamics of forest monitoring in Tanzania

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Journal Article

2019

Muted market signals: politics, petroleum investments and regulatory developments in Tanzania

Rasmus Hundsbæk Pedersen & Peter Bofin

Journal of Eastern African Studies

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DIIS Working Paper

2019

A typology of domestic private land-based investors in Africa

Evidence from Tanzania's Timber Rush

Justin Edward Lusasi, Esbern Friis-Hansen & Rasmus Hundsbæk Pedersen

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Working papers etc.

2019

Democratisation in Tanzania: No Elections Without Exemptions

Summary of Working Paper 98 by Ole Therkildsen and Ane Karoline Bak

Ole Therkildsen & Ane Karoline Bak

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Journal Article

2019

Challenging prospects for upstream contracting in Tanzania

Peter Bofin & Rasmus Hundsbæk Pedersen

Oxford Energy Forum, 117

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Working papers etc.

2018

Social protection in an electorally competitive environment (2)

The politics of health insurance in Tanzania

Rasmus Hundsbæk Pedersen & Thabit Jacob

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Working papers etc.

2018

Social protection in an electorally competitive environment (1)

The politics of Productive Social Safety Nets (PSSN) in Tanzania

Thabit Jacob & Rasmus Hundsbæk Pedersen

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DIIS Working Paper

2018

State caught in the middle

coal extraction and community struggles in Tanzania

Thabit Jacob

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Journal Article

2018

New resource nationalism? Continuity and change in Tanzania’s extractive industries

Rasmus Hundsbæk Pedersen & Thabit Jacob

The Extractive Industries and Society

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Journal Article

2017

Reconfigured state-community relations in Africa’s extractive sectors

insights from post-liberalisation Tanzania

Rasmus Hundsbæk Pedersen & Thabit Jacob

The Extractive Industries and Society, 4

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DIIS Working Paper

2017

Of local people and investors

The dynamics of land rights configuration in Tanzania

Emmanuel Sulle

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DIIS Working Paper

2017

The political economy of private forestry in Tanzania

A review

Rasmus Hundsbæk Pedersen

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Journal Article

2017

The political economy of petroleum investments and land acquisition standards in Africa

The case of Tanzania

Rasmus Hundsbæk Pedersen & Opportuna Kweka

Resources Policy, 52

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DIIS Working Paper

2017

Tanzania’s oil and gas contract regime, investments and markets

Peter Bofin & Rasmus Hundsbæk Pedersen

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DIIS Working Paper

2016

Rights to land and extractive resources in Tanzania (2/2)

The return of the state

Thabit Jacob, Rasmus Hundsbæk Pedersen, Faustin Maganga & Opportuna Kweka

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Journal Article

2016

Access to land reconsidered

the land grab, polycentric governance and Tanzania’s new wave land reform

Rasmus Hundsbæk Pedersen

Geoforum, 72

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Journal Article

2015

The economics and politics of local content in African extractives

Lessons from Tanzania, Uganda and Mozambique

Michael W. Hansen, Lars Buur, Ole Therkildsen & Anne Mette Kjær

Forum for Development Studies

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Book

2015

The politics of African industrial policy

a comparative perspective

Lindsey Whitfield, Ole Therkildsen, Lars Buur & Anne Mette Kjær

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DIIS Working Paper

2015

The politics of gas contract negotiations in Tanzania

a review

Rasmus Hundsbæk Pedersen & Peter Bofin

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Journal Article

2015

A less gendered access to land?

the impact of Tanzania's new wave of land reform

Rasmus Hundsbæk Pedersen

Development Policy Review

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DIIS Working Paper

2013

Women, donors and land administration

the Tanzania case

Rasmus Hundsbæk Pedersen

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DIIS Report

2013

Social accountability mechanisms and access to public service delivery in rural Africa

Esbern Friis-Hansen & Signe Marie Cold-Ravnkilde

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Journal Article

2013

Reshaping conservation

The social dynamics of participatory monitoring in Tanzania's community-managed forests

Mikkel Funder, Finn Danielsen, Yonika Ngaga, Martin Reinhardt Nielsen & Michael Køie Poulsen

Conservation and Society, 11

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Journal Article

2013

RIPAT nonformal farmer education

fostering individual and social change in rural Africa

Esbern Friis-Hansen, Deborah Duveskog & Edward Taylor

Adult education, 29
DIIS Working Paper

2012

Continuity and change in Tanzania's ruling coalition

legacies, crises and weak productive capacity

Ole Therkildsen

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Journal Article

2012

Decoupled implementation of new-wave land reforms

decentralisation and local governance of land in Tanzania

Rasmus Hundsbæk Pedersen

Journal of Development Studies, 48

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Sustainable development and governance

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Peace and violence

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Sustainable development and governance

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Sustainable development and governance

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Sustainable development and governance

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