Tanzania's Land Policy 2023: 16 Key Strategic Goals
Tanzania's 2023 Land Policy outlines 16 strategic goals to ensure equal land rights, transparency, and sustainable land use across the country.
National Land Policy Outlines 16 Key Strategic Goals
March 26, 2025
The National Land Policy of 1995, updated in the 2023 edition, sets forth an ambitious framework to promote equitable land ownership, sustainable development, and effective land governance across the country.
Central to the updated policy are 16 specific goals designed to strengthen the land tenure system, ensure fair access to land for all citizens, and safeguard government land.
Among its primary objectives, the policy seeks to reinforce land ownership and management systems, ensuring that every citizen enjoys equal rights to acquire land while protecting public land assets.
Transparency and fairness in the processes of land acquisition, revocation of ownership, and compensation are also emphasized as fundamental principles.
The policy further prioritizes the modernization of land registration systems and transaction procedures, alongside enhancing land tenure security for agricultural and pastoral use to support sustainable livelihoods and long-term land investment.
Additional strategic aims include improving the preparation and implementation of rural land use plans, strengthening urban land use planning, management, and oversight mechanisms, and establishing an integrated and sustainable system for maintaining land records and geospatial information.
Environmental and developmental priorities are also addressed. The policy calls for effective management of environmentally sensitive areas, robust conflict resolution mechanisms for land disputes, and enhanced systems for land surveying, mapping, and the establishment of secure international boundaries.
Moreover, the policy advocates for a dynamic system for managing land valuation and market operations, emphasizes environmental conservation and climate change adaptation in land management practices, and promotes gender equality in land ownership rights.
The policy concludes by reaffirming the need for good governance in all aspects of land administration to ensure transparency, accountability, and inclusivity in decision-making processes.
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