National experience in the formulation and implementation of population policy, 1960-1976. United Republic of Tanzania
Anonymous
UN Publications, Department of International Economic and Social Affairs (ST/ESA/SER.R/28): 44
1979
Document Number: 263228
The Government of Tanzania has been trying to bring about a fundamental change in the country's societal structure at the same time as achieving technological and organizational modernization from extremely low base levels, and in the face of severe environmental constraints. The government's approach to the harmonization of the demographic behaviour of the population with desired social and economic trends is from an initial position with regard to population policy which is characterized as essentially similar to that of the trusteeship administration. From this the Government came first to formulate a comprehensive and sophisticated position with regard to spatial distribution of the population, in urban as well as in rural areas. The rural programme of ujamaa vijijini in particular was a major element in this, but the management of the expansion of the urban system has also been carefully planned and carried out. Later, the Government expanded its views of the most desirable system of health services within the overall development strategy it had adopted, and developed views of the desirable relationship between mortality, fertility and natural increase at both the family and the national levels. It has gradually brought into existence appropriate programmes designed to ensure harmony between these relationships and its overall social and economic strategy.