The World Bank is in the process of developing the next Country Assistance Strategy (CAS) for Tanzania and is organizing a series of consultations with different stakeholders throughout the country for this purpose. The objective of these stakeholder consultations is to ensure that the new assistance strategy reflects the perspectives and recommendations from government and other stakeholders, on the critical development challenges and the policy options and programs that the Bank should pursue. The current CAS was prepared as part of the Joint Assistance Strategy for Tanzania (JAST) under which the Bank approved 30 new operations totalling over US$ 2.8 billion.

Progress of the CAS was assessed in the CAS Progress Report (CASPR) of March 2, 2010. Currently a CAS Completion Report (CASCR) is under preparation.

It is expected that the new CAS will be finalized by March 2011 and discussed by the Bank Group’s Board of Executive Directors in late April 2011. Please read the CAS Consultations Overview and plan to participate.