ABSTRACT
This chapter analyses the legal framework for the delivery of basic services: water, education and health. It discusses several pieces of post-independence legislation enacted during the ideology of developmentalism. All water supplies in Tanzania’s mainland are vested in the United Republic. The chapter outlines two approaches to social services delivery in Tanzania. On the one hand the state has, through legislation, imposed on itself sole responsibility for the provision of water in urban areas. On the other hand, the state shoulders primary responsibility for the provision of education services and medical services to the public and allows secondary responsibility to be given to private interests. The chapter demonstrates that the state’s regulatory powers over private interests are quite extensive. It also demonstrates the use of law in the articulation and implementation of state policies and political objectives.
