Urban Poverty & Climate Change in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania:

• Implement a Green Competition for the cleanest area (by Mtaa and Municipality) based on
several sectoral indicators.
5.4 Spending on pro-poor services and infrastructure
Dar es Salaam’s municipal agencies provide infrastructure and socio-economic services such
as health, water, education, solid waste management, cooperative and community
development, roads, development of natural resources, trade and agriculture and livestock
sectors, and information and communication technology development. Despite efforts to
improve social services for city dwellers, increased migration and unemployment have made
services poor and unaffordable. Rapid urbanization in Dar es Salaam is resulting in growing
numbers of the population living in un-planned, densely settled squatter areas with little or no
access to social services (URT, 2004).
Despite purported improvements in fiscal position and revenue collection systems, improved
record-keeping and enhanced accountability, the Dar es Salaam City Council (including its
Municipalities) still faces considerable challenges in spending on pro-poor services and on
improving infrastructure in unplanned and underserved areas. Significant increase in
revenue-generation is needed to ensure both increased service coverage and quality of
services, particularly taking into account the additional resilience needed to reduce the risk
posed by climate change for the city.
Priorities in meeting the challenges include improving information systems (databases) and
updating valuation rolls; optimizing the potential of property tax and simplifying the
development levy; and developing vigilant collection strategies and more enhanced law
enforcement capacity (City Council, undated Brief DSM V2: 6)
5.5 Financial Mechanisms for climate change adaptation and mitigation
Many developing countries, including Tanzania, are adversely affected by current climatic
variability as well as expected future impacts of climate change, and lack the financial
resources to adapt. Poverty is also leading to the degradation of natural resources, such as
forests, in many developing countries; this trend provides the basis for investment in projects
to increase carbon sinks in these areas and thus contribute towards global efforts to mitigate
climate change. Funding is increasingly being made available to developing countries for
both adaptation and mitigation purposes (Table 13 lists funds that Tanzania is eligible to
access).
Table 13: Climate Change finances in which Tanzania is eligible and status of the available fund (as
of Dec 2010)
No. Fund
Pledged
(US$
million)
Deposited
(US$
million)
82
Disbursed:
annual total
(US$ million)
1 Adaptation Fund (AF) 162.57 162.56 5.98 156.59
2 Clean Technology Fund (CTF) 4,387.75 483.50 9.30 4372.45
3
GEF Trust Fund - Climate
Change focal area (GEF 4) 1,032.92 1,032.92 1,017.88 15.04
Funds available
(including pledges)
(US$ million)