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Tanzania’s abundance of extractive resources has bestowed it with a distinctive reputation. Internationally recognized for its exclusive Tanzanite reserves, the country also boasts deposits of various minerals, such as gold, diamonds, coal, nickel, iron, uranium, ruby, and graphite.[1] The extractive industry can threaten socio-economic development and human rights in communities. Positive outcomes benefit the whole country, yet negative impacts often affect nearby communities.[2]
On March 16, 2023, Deputy Minister of Minerals, Dr. Steven Kiruswa, launched the Tanzanian Local Content and CSR system, highlighting substantial achievements in the mining sector, such as a 131% increase in Tanzanian mining employment from 2018 to 2022, with 15,341 jobs in 2022, along with a 97.4% domestic procurement rate in 2022, and an 81% growth in mining service providers, which increased from 623 in 2018 to 1,386 in 2022. Moreover, 8,066 Tanzanians received mining sector training in 2022, amounting to 3.4 billion Tanzanian shillings. [3]
