Journalists are encouraged to use these images in their reports; any use should include copyright to the World Bank and credit the photographer. Right click and Save Target As to download high resolution images where available. | More Photos: Ethiopia: Day 1,2| Tanzania Day 1,3 | Nigeria | Benin | Sierra Leone |  | TANZANIA [HI-RES] July 14, 2006—A street in the Manzese informal settlement in Dar es Salaam. The World Bank is financing upgrading of some informal settlements in Dar es Salaam through the Local Government Support Poject, a community-driven program targeted at unplanned areas. The program covers about 10% of the informal settlements, where communities have selected from a fixed menu of technical options including roads, footpaths, drain, street lighting, and public toilets.
Dar es Salaam Water Supply & Sanitation (DAWASA) Project
"Everybody deserves a chance to have a better life, have their children go to school, have their children educated to be healthy, and I hope that what we're doing here together can help make this community better." -- World Bank President Wolfowitz at the visit to a peri-urban informal settlement in Manzese Ward, Kinondoni District, Tanzania More on: Multimedia | Trip | Tanzania | Africa | | © World Bank |
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 | TANZANIA [HI-RES] July 14, 2006—Girls in the Manzese, an informal settlement in Dar es Salaam where investment in basic urban infrastructure is helping improve the quality of life of the people who live here, as well as promote economic growth of the community. Photo:© World Bank
Dar es Salaam Water Supply and Sanitation (DAWASA) Project |
|  | TANZANIA [HI-RES] July 14, 2006—Young boy in the Manzese, an informal settlement in Dar es Salaam where investment in basic urban infrastructure is helping improve the quality of life of the people who live here, as well as promote economic growth of the community Photo:© World Bank
Dar es Salaam Water Supply and Sanitation (DAWASA) Project |
|  | TANZANIA [HI-RES] July 14, 2006—World Bank President Wolfowitz meeting with Tanzanian President Jakaya Kikwete at State House in Dar es Salaam. Photo:© World Bank |
|  | TANZANIA [HI-RES] July 14, 2006—World Bank President Wolfowitz is greeted by Minister of Finance Zakhia Meghji, the first Tanzanian woman to hold this position. During his visit to Tanzania, Mr. Wolfowitz said that the country has made impressive progress over the past ten years with steady growth, political stability and peace. Photo:© World Bank |
|  | TANZANIA [HI-RES] July 14, 2006—World Bank President Wolfowitz meets Mrs. Khadija Simba, Managing Director of Hygiene Products Ltd., during a meeting with private sector representatives in Tanzania. The Bank’s recently approved Private Competitiveness Project aims to improve the business environment, enterprise capacity and access to finance for micro, small and medium enterprises in Tanzania. Photo:© World Bank |
|  | TANZANIA [HI-RES] July 14, 2006—During his closing press conference in Dar es Salaam, World Bank President Wolfowitz mentioned that at the upcoming meeting of the G8 countries he will be asking the leaders of the world’s richest countries to make good on the promises made last year, particularly to deliver a trade pact that will help millions of people, in Tanzania and elsewhere in Africa, and other parts of the developing world pull themselves out of poverty. Photo:© World Bank |
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