Implementation of Tanzania’s National Strategy for Growth and Reduction of Poverty, NSGRP, (or popularly known as MKUKUTA in Kiswahili;) and Zanzibar Strategy for Growth and Reduction of Poverty, ZSGRP (or popularly known as MKUZA in Kiswahili) is coming to an end in June 2010. Both Governments (ie The Government of Mainland Tanzania and that of the Revolutionary of Zanzibar) are, however, committed to developing successor strategies to MKUKUTA and MKUZA.

To develop successor strategies based on experience and lessons learned from the implementation of the previous generation of both of these strategies, the Union Government has directed are view of their implementation. This study, commissioned by UNESCO for the Union Government, thus, fits into the overall review of the two strategies mentioned above. It must, however be mentioned at the outset that, there view is not sector-specific. Rather, it aims at determining the role assigned to science, technology and innovation broadly in MKUKUTA and MKUZA. And that the need for this assessment stems from the growing recognition of the important role science, technology and innovation plays in the growth of modern economies.