ABSTRACT
This chapter examines, from a broad urban policy perspective, the experience of the World Bank-sponsored urban shelter programmes initiated in East Africa since 1974. It is concerned with a detailed analysis of the implementation of site and services schemes and squatter upgrading per se since such evaluations are gradually being made. The chapter is also concerned with somewhat broader questions concerning the degree to which such projects have met the shelter needs of the urban poor, and whether it is really desirable to replicate these types of shelter projects. At the same time, local government staff was reallocated and funds for urban programmes diverted, with the result that substantial levels of unplanned 'shanty-town' development occurred. Apart from the implications arising out of the Bank shelter scheme, there were a number of important urban policy areas over which Tanzania and the Bank differed sharply, and in which the former should have anticipated difficulties.
