Expansion of social protection reach among workers in the large informal economy represents a persisting and thorny challenge in the development context. In Mainland Tanzania, several domestically led policy reforms have been introduced to increasingly expand social protection for informal...

Tanzania has expanded its social protection framework significantly over the past decade, but the country continues to grapple with important gender inequalities. This paper examines, first, the evolution and effects of Tanzania's social protection policies since the 2000s, from the perspective...

The papers published in this book are a product of a five day workshop held at Arusha, Tanzania, in August 1987. The papers were presented during plenary sessions with the two subthemes family and urban population. Four papers are based on Tanzania, three on Kenya and one each on Uganda, Zambia...

In order to achieve universal health coverage, the full involvement of informal-sector workers in healthinsurance schemes is necessary. In Tanzania, measures targeting informal-sector workers have been evolving over time. Earlier researchers reported low participation of such workers in the...