Tanzania Country Report: Regulating Urban Sanitation to Prevent Integrity Failures

This report focuses on the steps taken to regulate the urban sanitation sub-sector in  Tanzania and the integrity risks and failures that persist. The effective regulation of the  urban sanitation sub-sector is vital in ensuring high-quality, reliable and equitable services  and accelerating progress towards universal coverage. Many countries have taken vital steps  to improve the regulation of the urban sanitation sub-sector (ESAWAS, 2022). Nevertheless,  corruption and integrity failures have been estimated to result in the loss of 4-26% of sector  finances (Water Integrity Network, 2022), and limited work has been done to understand  the issue of integrity in urban sanitation and the associated regulatory frameworks for the  sub-sector. Within this context, the Water Integrity Network commissioned Aguaconsult  to assess the extent to which regulatory frameworks for urban sanitation in Bangladesh,  Rwanda, Tanzania, and Zambia prevent and mitigate key integrity failures. This is the country  report for Tanzania. It details the urban sanitation context in Tanzania, outlines the extent to  which regulatory mechanisms for the urban sanitation sub-sector are being applied, details  identified integrity failures, and offers a series of practical recommendations.