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                            ADMINISTRATION AND LOCATION OF TEMEKE MUNICIPAL COUNCIL  

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Figure 1: Temeke District Location Map  Temeke Municipal Council is one of the five Municipalities of the City of Dar es Salaam that was established on 10th November, 1999 under the Local Government (Urban Authorities) Act, 1982 No. 8 Sections 8 and 9. Temeke Municipal has an area of about 240 square kilometers and the coastal zone of 5 kilometers. In addition it is 39⁰ 12 degrees’ - 39⁰ 33' East and 6⁰ 48 -7⁰ 33’ South. Temeke is located South of the City of Dar es Salaam where the East borders the Indian Ocean, South borders.  The Coast of Mkuranga - Region of Coast, and North - West is adjacent to Ilala  Municipal and North East and is located in Kigamboni Municipality. Administratively,  the Council is divided into 2 divisions and 23 wards.

A: INVESTMENT AREAS AND OPPORTUNITIES  

Temeke is the industrial district of the city, where the manufacturing centers (heavy and light industry) are located. The Port of Dar es Salaam, which is the largest in the country, is found in east of Temeke. Temeke is believed to have the largest concentration of low-income residents due to industry. Port officials, Military and Police Officers live here.

⮚ Kurasini located on the Dar es Salaam Harbour, is the home of the Dar es Salaam  Port, The Police College, Mgulani Police Barracks and the Dar es Salaam  International Trade Fair Grounds. Thus, the main residents are police officers and port officials.

⮚ Chang'ombe is one of the only higher income areas in Temeke. It has maintained this status due to occupation by African high colonial officers and some industry owners from the colonial era. Chang'ombe is the home of the Dar es Salaam University College of Education, the National Stadium and Uhuru Stadium.

⮚ Temeke, Mtoni and Tandika are middle to low-income suburbs.

⮚ Mbagala and Kijichi are middle to low-income suburbs. Mbagala is the largest suburb in the whole district, and is also considered a slum.

In Temeke there are significant varieties of areas suitable for investment ranging from Fishery, Agro-processing industries and Real estate. Agriculture and Livestock activities can be invested in a small scale and somehow medium due to the small availability of conducive environment for the mentioned sectors. Land for investment can be acquired through purchasing from the Municipal Council and individuals by paying compensation or companies.

B: INVESTMENT AREAS  

The Municipal allocated the investment areas of more than 300,000m²into different areas for the various investments as follows in table 10 below:

The feasibility studies conducted by the Municipal into these areas have shown that proper investments in these areas include;

i. Commercial Buildings offices, 

⮚ Modern Markets 

⮚ Mixed residential-commercial buildings.

ii. Residential Apartments;

⮚ Apartment Houses, 

⮚ Restaurants/Hotels Building

iii. Business Buildings;

⮚ Bank Buildings

iv. Assembly Building;

⮚ Bus Terminals, 

⮚ Truck Terminal, 

⮚ Playing Grounds.

Modern Markets 

Temeke Municipal Council is the key hub of governmental, diplomatic, settlement, industrial and commercial activities of Dar es salaam Region. There are 40,553 businesses within Temeke Municipal Council that includes Large Scale Entrepreneurs, Medium and SME’s who are operating in markets areas/building, along the high ways (even in street roads) and in residential areas. All Municipal market buildings/areas are traditional in nature, unplanned, unorganised, and have very poor infrastructures though they are contributing about Tsh. 4.5 Bilion per year.

The Temeke Municipal Council is intending to reconstruct all existing markets in the Districts into modern markets to carter rapid development growth of the town starting with Mbagala market and Temeke Stereo Market. The Municipal considers developing unique structures on these areas of international standards to be the icon building of modern market facility in the country. The following figure 15 below is the proposed project of Modern Market to be constructed at Mbagala Market. However, the feasibility study is on the process for the Temeke Stereo Market.

Residential Apartments  

These building include any building in which sleeping accommodation provide for normal residential purposes, with or without cooking and dining facilities. It includes single or multifamily dwellings, apartment houses, lodgings or rooming houses, and residential hostels. Requirement for residential accommodation are different for different classes of people & depends on the income & status of the individual, a highly rich family will require a luxurious building while a poor man will be satisfied with a single room house for even poor class family. The Municipal is going to invest in this sector by constructing standard apartments for both classes of people.

Restaurants/Hotels Building  

A hotel is an establishment that provides paid lodging on a short-term basis. Facilities provided may range from a modest-quality mattress in a small room to large suites with bigger, higher-quality beds, a dresser, a refrigerator and other kitchen facilities, upholstered chairs, a flat screen television, and en-suite bathrooms. Small, lower-priced hotels may offer only the most basic guest services and facilities. Larger, higher-priced hotels may provide additional guest facilities such as a swimming pool, business centre, childcare, conference, event facilities, and social function services. 

Travelers are always looking for a home away from home, and the tourist industry needs these vacationers to survive. Creating a winning hotel can benefit everybody, and people will return to your retreat time and time again. Most hotels and major hospitality companies that operate hotels have set widely accepted industry standards to classify hotel types. General categories include Luxury Hotels; Boutique and lifestyle hotels; Full-service Hotels; Focused or select service; Economy & limited service; extended stay; Timeshare & destination clubs; Motel; and Micro stay hotels. The figure 17 below shows what Temeke is looking towards.

Bank Building  

A bank is a financial institution that accepts deposits from the public and creates credit.  Due to their importance in the financial stability of a country, banks are highly regulated in most countries. Most nations have institutionalized system known as fractional reserve banking under which banks hold liquid assets equal to only a portion of their current liabilities.

Activities undertaken by banks include personal banking, corporate banking, investment banking, private banking, transaction banking, insurance, consumer finance, foreign exchange trading, commodity trading, trading in equities, futures and options trading and money market trading.

Bus Terminals  

The supply of bus terminals and transport infrastructures in Temeke Municipal Council is still limited. The existing planned bus terminal is estimated to be about 23 terminals which is approximate average of one bus terminal in each Ward. In real sense, construction of bus terminals is truly needed in order to increase the number of bus terminals and its infrastructure in the Municipal. However, growth of population and settlement is very high compared to the increase rate of bus terminal infrastructures.  For this reason, the construction project of the terminals is very significant in order to expand the supply of bus terminals in Temeke Municipal so as to reduce the existing gap between demand and supply of bus terminals.

The Municipal has a plan of constructing two Bus Terminals at Chamanzi and Toangoma as figure 19(a & b) shows below. The assessment shows that all available bus terminals in the district are not modern, very unplanned and outdated. The project  specific objectives are; To reduce traffic congestion from city Centre; To improve efficiency in service delivery; To generate employment opportunities; To provide a  well standard commercial facilities; To generate revenues to the Council from the  provided services as shown in table 11 below; and improving quality of life in the  community (focus on poor).

The new terminals envisage being effective hub that will deliver more services with increased efficiency while accommodating the projected growth in passengers’ inflow/outflow. Both projects will be bounded with one floor (ghorofa moja) business cottage and mini super market so as to make the project area to be the shopping center. It will enable the Municipal operate a permanent and bus terminals that are safe, convenient, cost effective, operationally functional, and flexible. However the proposed of new bus terminals will serve as a Council’s source of revenue.

SERVICES TO BE PROVIDED BY THE PROPOSED PROJECTS 

Playing Grounds (Stadium) 

The aim of the Project is to contribute to the development of football in Temeke Municipal and revenue as well thereby delivering the social, health and community benefits that are well-recognized as flowing from community participation in and  support for sporting teams and competitions.

The project also aims to deliver short, medium and long term community building, social health and welfare benefits by;

⮚ Providing young people in Temeke Municipal role models for participation in exercise and organized teams sports;

⮚ Encouraging and growing the rates of participation in football at all ages, levels and across gender;

⮚ Providing potential football players, an aspiration pathway for a professional football career and/or fulfillment of their individual sporting potential;

⮚ Providing future coaches and other technical football staff and sporting administrators, an opportunity to pursue a career path in their chosen sport and profession within their local community;

⮚ Providing the Temeke Municipal community with volunteer and employment opportunities based around support for their Club;

⮚ Providing an economic stimulus to the region through the trade and commerce, tourism and employment benefits of operating a stadium and regular sporting events;

⮚ Providing the people of Temeke Municipal a forum to foster and grow their  community spirit and pride through their shared support of their own local club.  

INVESTMENT OPORTUNITY/SECTORS

Agro-processing Industries  

The industrial sector in developing countries is typically dominated by small manufacturing firms. Such firms are generally characterized by poor physical infrastructure, limited human capital endowment and unskilled labor with low levels of education (Daniel, 2016). A large number of these manufacturing firms are agro related, using agricultural products as their main raw material or those producing agricultural inputs.

Tanzania’s industrial sector contributes around 25% to the country’s GDP and experienced an average annual growth of 8% over the past 5 years. The general industrial structure of Tanzania is comprised of manufacturing (53%), processing (43%), and assembling industries (4%). In Tanzania there are only a few large agro processing firms focusing on regional and international markets meanwhile the sub sector being dominated by small and medium sized firms. Over 90% of these firms are characterized by low technology, undertaking semi-processing of products that are sold in the local market.

Currently, the majority of crops in Tanzania are marketed in their raw forms, while value-addition to agricultural products is mostly on small-scale secondary level. Still, the Tanzanian agriculture value-added net output rose by 61% during the period 2013– 2017, from USD 8.6bn to USD 13.8bn. Currently, value-added products in Tanzania include cotton yarn, manufactured coffee and tobacco, sisal products (yarn and twine), and wheat flour. In line with the 2025 Vision of the Ministry of Agriculture, Food and Cooperatives of Tanzania, there should be at least two new products developed from each of the staple crops, horticultural crops, livestock and fisheries by that year.

About 75% of small agro-processing firms in Tanzania operate below their installed capacity recording only 15% capacity utilization on average, which contributes to high post-harvest losses (Shilton et al., 2016). It is currently estimated as 30 % of cereals, 70% of fruits and vegetables, and 20% of fish are lost in the post-harvest phase due to lack of processing facilities (Ukwami, 2017). For these reason only about 1% of available agricultural raw produce are being processed in Tanzania compared to 40- 50% in Thailand, 78% in the Philippines, and 83% in Malaysia.

Agriculture

The overall performance of the Tanzanian economy remains strong with a high rate of growth, and a low rate of inflation over the past five years. Today, agriculture is the main contributor to the value of Tanzania’s economy, while tourism is the leading sector in terms of foreign exchange earnings. The agriculture sector, as a whole in Tanzania has an annual growth rate of 6% and accounts for nearly half the GDP contribution, 70% of the rural household income, and absorbs 80% of the entire workforce. Agriculture provides 85% of exports and accounts for half of the employed workforce where 16.4% of the land is arable with 2.4% of the land planted with permanent crops.

This strong dependence on agriculture makes Tanzania's economy highly vulnerable to weather shocks and fluctuating commodity prices. 76% of Tanzania's population subsist thanks to agriculture and, due to the lack of knowledge and infrastructure to develop and implement some kind of agricultural technology, any droughts, floods, or temperature shocks can severely damage the living standards of those people and create huge increases in unemployment, hunger, and malnutrition rates, as well as, in really severe case, mortality rates due to starvation. 

However, while most other sectors are growing, agriculture faces stagnation in productivity growth. In 2016, agriculture accounted for nearly 30% of GDP and was the largest contributor to employment for about 70%. However, it continues to be dominated by small-scale and subsistence farmers with average farm sizes between 0.9 and 3 hectares and with little capital to invest in machinery and irrigation. Several reforms have been undertaken in this sector such as a review of land laws to allow for long term leases for foreign companies and redefining the role of government and private sector that allow for the latter to participate in production, processing, and  public support functions. 

Livestock

The spatial distribution of livestock in Tanzania depends on the agro-climatologically zones; Arid, semi-aid, sub-humid, humid and the highlands. Pastoralist in which traditional cattle, sheep and goats predominate is concentrated in the northern (Arusha and Manyara) savannah plains where climatic and soil conditions do not favor crop  production. Agro-pastoralist is found in low rainfall areas of western (Shinyanga and  Tabora) and central (Dodoma and Singida) zones where shifting cultivation of sorghum  and millet is practiced. Smallholder dairy production include cattle under coconut  systems in the coastal regions and stall fed crossbred dairy cattle in the Northern and  Southern highlands, Kagera and peri-urban and urban dairying in and around major cities and towns. Commercial ranching (mostly NARCO beef ranches) accounts for about 7% of the marketed milk (Mufwifwi, 2018). A number of technical, policy and institutional and specific agro-ecological zone related constraints have influenced the performance of the livestock sector. 

In Temeke Municipal, investment in Livestock has opportunities in Meat Processing Industries, Tannery Industries, Animal Feedloting, animal feed industries and fish farming. However, there is a great opportunity in dairy processing investment. This is due to the following reasons;

⮚ Regarding average milk production of 6 liters per day per cow, we can have more than 7,352.4 liters of milk per day ready for processing

⮚ Growing population which demands for healthier products in order to reduce the spread of diseases such as TB and Brucellosis.

⮚ Increased number of people engaged in dairy production in Temeke and nearby districts of Kigamboni and Mkuranga. 

                     ⮚ Availability of dairy cross bred cows that are well adapted           to the environment.

⮚ Presence of supermarket chains that has eased distribution of dairy products and retail shops to distribute milk.

Construction industry  

The construction industry in Tanzania includes real estate, transport infrastructure, and other civil works, including water supply. Construction contributed 13.6% to Tanzania’s GDP during 2015, reaching almost USD6b. In 2010 the sector accounted for only 7.8% of the country’s GDP or USD1.6b. The growth rate of the Tanzanian construction sector was 4.3% in the first quarter 2016, compared to 23.2% in the same quarter 2015. According to the Tanzania National Bureau of Statistics (NBS), the slowing of the growth rate was due to reduced investments in construction activities.

In Temeke Municipal Council the available investment opportunity is in Real Estate sector and Transportation infrastructures. The Real Estate sector including the construction of recreation centers, shopping malls, supermarkets and Public Servants Housing Scheme.

Health services  

Investment opportunities lie in building new and modern hospitals, health centers and dispensaries. Likewise, there will be opportunities in construction of pharmaceutical industries, intravenous infusion, medical oxygen plants and hospital equipments. Modern hospital management and establishment of health insurance investment.

Solid and Liquid Waste Management  

Investment opportunities in solid and liquid waste management facilities are plenty since there is no reliable facility in operation as at currently.

Education sector  

Many opportunities still exist for the establishing of education and training institutions as well as related academies. The Municipal encourages private sectors to set up specialized schools of excellence in Management, Science and Technology, Finance, Marketing and Tourism etc.

Financial services  

Investment opportunities remain unlimited in establishing commercial banks and other financial institutions. The Municipal has strong potential for banks and other financial institutions to undertake additional activities such as investment consultations, asset valuation, sales and insurance, loans to identified groups in the street levels such as SACCOS, VICOBA etc.