ABSTRACT
In Tanzania, the experience in recent years closest to public works projects are self-help schemes and famine relief activities, but in view of the prevailing ideology on development, any community-based development project could conceivably take on the character of a public works scheme. While community-based development projects take the form of public works schemes, famine-relief projects in Dodoma were mostly extensions of self-help projects. There are no special labour requirements laid down for obtaining food aid, which is now given regardless of the amount of work done. In most cases villagers continue to work on existing self-help projects. The period of food scarcity tends to coincide with the time for clearing the farm and planting, and therefore famine-relief supplies are nomally provided at around this time. However, the provision of famine-relief can be as sporadic as the food shortages.
