HAI DISTRICT COUNCIL
DISTRICT INVESTMENT PROFILE
Contact:
Hai District Commissioner’s Office
P. o. Box 10
HAI
Hai District Executive’s Office
P. o. Box 27
Fax:+255 27-275 8441
E-Mail:mkurugenzihai@yahoo.co.uk
TABLE OF CONTENTS
DISTRICT INVESTMENT PROFILE ........................................................................... - 1 PART ONE: ................................................................................................................... - 1 1.0 The Profile of the District ......................................................................................... - 1 1.1 Introduction ............................................................................................................... - 1 1.2 Geographical Location .............................................................................................. - 1 1.3 Surface Area.............................................................................................................. - 1 1.4 Administration Set up ............................................................................................... - 1 1.5 Topography and Land Use Pattern ........................................................................... - 1 1.6 Agro – Economic Zone: ............................................................................................ - 2 1.7 Climate ...................................................................................................................... - 2 1.8 Population and Demographic Pattern ....................................................................... - 3 1.9 Political Parties ......................................................................................................... - 3 1.9.1 Economy ................................................................................................................ - 3 PART TWO: .................................................................................................................. - 4 2.0 Investment Opportunities .......................................................................................... - 4 2.1 Introduction ............................................................................................................... - 4 2.2 Agriculture ................................................................................................................ - 4 2.3 Industry ..................................................................................................................... - 9 2.4 Livestock ................................................................................................................. - 10 2.5 Natural Resources ................................................................................................... - 11 2.6 Education ................................................................................................................ - 13 2.7 Health ...................................................................................................................... - 15 PART THREE:............................................................................................................ - 17 3.0 Conclusion .............................................................................................................. - 17 -
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DISTRICT INVESTMENT PROFILE
PART ONE:
1.0 The Profile of the District
1.1 Introduction
Hai District is one of the six districts of the Kilimanjaro Region. Currently the district
consists of 13 departments and 6 sections. The district departments and sections includes;
Legal & Security, Internal Audit and Procurement & Management Unit, Election,
Beekeeping, Technology, Information, Communication & Relation, Human Resources &
Personnel, Health, Primary Education, Water, Livestock & Fishing, Community
Development & Social Welfare, Environment & Sanitation, Planning, Statistics &
Coordination, Finance & Trade, Secondary Education, Agriculture, Irrigation &
Cooperatives, Land & Natural Resources and Fire &Works. The office is headed by a
PMORALG who is assisted by the District Executive Director (DED) and Council
Chairperson.
1.2 Geographical Location
Hai District Council which is in the Northern part of Tanzania is among six district
councils and one Municipal Council that forming Kilimanjaro Region. It was initiated in
1975 from Moshi District. Other Councils are: Moshi Rural, Mwanga, Same, Siha and
Rombo and Moshi Municipal Council. It is boundaries with Moshi Rural District to the
East, Arumeru and Siha District to the West, Simanjiro District to the South, Kilimanjaro
National Park and Rombo District to the North of Kilimanjaro Region. The District lies
between Latitudes 20 50` and 30 29` south of Equator and between Longitudes 300 30`
and 370 10` east of Greenwich.
1.3 Surface Area
The district has an area of 1,011 km2 (101,100 hectares).
1.4 Administration Set up
The district is subdivided into 3 divisions, which are: Lyamungo, Machame and Masama.
It has 14 Wards, 60 villages, 248 hamlets and 11 urban streets.
1.5 Topography and Land Use Pattern
The District Council has been able to have land use drawings for various uses. Land
Baraza has been formed in all 60 villages and 14 wards and they are all functioning. The
type of land use and its coverage is as follows:
TYPE OF LAND USE
Pontential Agriculture Land
Grazing Land
Forest Area
Mountain and Snow Area [Mount Kilimanjaro]
Sunflower
COVERAGE IN HK
46,506
COVERAGE IN PERCENTAGES
46
27,297
14,154
13,143
27
14
13
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1.6 Agro – Economic Zone:
The district is divided into four main Agro – ecological zones: Mount Kilimanjaro Peak:
This zone lies 1,800m above the mean sea level. It includes Kibo Peak of the Kilimanjaro
Mountain at 589m. This zone comprises of forest reserve and National Park. It is
uninhabited and located on the North East of the District. It covers approximately 27% of
the District area.
Upper zone:
This zone lies between 1,666m and 1,800m above sea level in the slopes of Mount
Kilimanjaro. It receives rainfall ranging from 1250mm. to 1750 mm. per annum. Banana
and coffee crops are cultivated from small-scale family farms.
Animal husbandry is highly practiced; almost every household has at least one cow and
some goats/sheep. This activity has become one of the major sources of household
income. The district produces on the average 36 million liters of milk per annum. About
40% of it is sold in Hai District and nearby towns like Moshi and Arusha. The remaining
60% is domestically consumed. Most of the milk comes from exotic breeds raised in this
zone.
Middle zone:
This zone lies between 900m and 1666m above see level. It receives rainfall ranging
from 700mm to 1250 mm per annum. Most of the cash and food crops cultivated in the
upper zone are also found in this zone. This zone is also famous for milk production.
Lowland zone:
This zone lies below 900m above the mean sea level. It receives rainfall ranging from
500mm to 700mm per annum. Farming of crops like beans, maize, sunflower and rice is
the main economic activity. Small scale farming carried in this zone is supported by
traditional animal husbandry of Zebu cattle, sheep, goats and other small animals. Most
of the farmers in the upper and middle zones depend in this zone for farming seasonal
crops like maize, beans, sunflower and other food crops.
1.7 Climate
Rainfalls
The District is classified as tropical savanna area but due to the influence of Mount
Kilimanjaro which is situated on the North – East corner of the District the climate varies
considerably.
The rainfall is bimodal with two rainy seasons namely:Long rainfall (Masika) - caused by the passage of the Inter- tropical Convergence Zone
(ITCZ) which starts from March to June.
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Short rainfall (Vuli) caused by the SouthWard movement of the (ITCZ). The short rains
are usually found in the months of November up to December. These are heavier in the
middle zone upwards; but very limited in the low- land zone of the District.
There are two main rainfall seasons that is the long rainfall season and the short rainfall
season. The long rainfall season begins in March ending in June, while the short rainfall
season starts in November ending in December. On average the District receives 700 mm
of rainfall in the lowlands, 1,250 mm of the rainfall in the mid zone and 1,750 mm of the
rainfall in the upper zone
Most of the seasonal crops such as maize, beans, sunflower and pigeon peas are
cultivated in the long rainfall season. During the short rainfall season maize, beans, peas
are cultivated in the mid and upper zones. The short rainfalls are essential for coffee and
banana farming in the mid and upper zones. Paddy, vegetables, maize and beans are
grown under irrigation in the lowland zone.
Temperatures
Temperatures are also closely related to altitude. But between 700m and 1200m above
the mean sea level the variation in the mean monthly temperature is small 220 –260 C.
The warm season lasts from October to March and is accompanied by high humidity with
maximum temperatures of 35oC. The cool season starts from June to September, and has
monthly temperatures in the range of 180 to 2oC.
1.8 Population and Demographic Pattern
According to the 2012 National Population Census results the District had a total
Population of 210,533. Females 108,076 and Males 102,457 in average population
density is 130 people per km2 while in the Upper Zone (Highland Area) the number of
persons per km2 exceeds 650.
1.9 Political Parties
Hai District Council has 4 political parties namely: CCM, CHADEMA, TLP and NCCR
Mageuzi that operates their Political activities in the District.
1.9.1 Economy
Main economic activities include crop and animal husbandry, petty businesses and
employment in the Government and Private sectors.
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PART TWO:
2.0 Investment Opportunities
2.1 Introduction
The main investment opportunities that exist in Hai District Council are in the following
areas; Tourism, Agriculture, Industry/Trade, Livestock and Natural Resources.
2.1 Tourism
The tourism industry is one of the leading foreign exchange earners for Hai. Hai District
Council has several attractions for tourists such as Nkweshoo Machame Tourism,
Waterfalls in Machame-Nshara and Nkuu Ndoo Villages, Hot spring in Chemka Village.
Enormous opportunities exist for investment are recreation and entertainment facilities in
the following areas such as cultural, sports, conference and eco-tourism, construction of
tourist hotels, development of tourism facilities away from Mount Kilimanjaro.
2.2 Agriculture
The district has well trained and experienced staff in crop production, horticulture,
irrigation and agro mechanization. The department has a total of 49 staff members. At
district headquarters there are 10 staff members ( 3 graduates and 7 diplomats). There are
39 staff members stationed at ward and village level. There are two vehicles, one being
out of order, 5 motorcycles which are loaned to extension staff, 3 computers, 3 printers
and 1 fax machine. The department through its extention staff at the district, ward and
village levels provides advisory extension service to farmers in regard to good
agricultural practices. Farmers are also trained on new agricultural technologies through
demonstration plots, farmer’s field days and other extension methods. It is also the duty
of the department to supervise the implementation of agricultural projects under the
District Agricultural Development Plans (DADPs) funded by the Agricultural Sector
Development Programme. The Department of Agriculture, Irrigation and Cooperative is
also a technical tool to advise the district Director, District Management Team and the
council on all matters related to agriculture.
Climate and Farming Seasons:
There are two main rain seasons i.e. the long rain season and the short rain season. The
long rain season begins in March ending in June, while the short rain season starts in
November ending in December. On average the district receives 700 mm. of rainfall in
the lowlands, 1,250 mm. in the mid zone and 1,750 mm. in the upper zone. In good years
rainfall may be as high as 2,000 mm in the upper zone.
Most of the seasonal crops such as maize, beans, sunflower and pigeon peas are
cultivated in the long rain season. During the short rain season maize, beans, peas are
cultivated in the mid and upper zones. The short rains are essential for coffee and banana
farming in the mid and upper zones. Paddy, vegetables, maize and beans are grown under
irrigation in the lowland zone.
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Agricultural Production Potential:
About 95 % of the people of Hai district depend on agriculture for their livelihood. As
said above the main crops produced include coffee, maize, beans, bananas, sunflower and
paddy. Cassava, sorghum, sunflower, surflower, groundnuts and high value crops such as
vanilla, baby corn, peas and mushrooms grow well in the district but there is a great need
to promote these crops through farmer’s sensitization, training and demonstration plots.
The following is crop production data for the district for the past five years:
(i) Food crops:
Crop
Maize
Beans
Bananas
Paddy
Sunflower
2007/2008
Ha
Tons
19,980
22,477
7,800
3,670
16,600
12,600
2,200
7,350
420
370
2008/2009
Ha
Tons
23,250 22,200
7,230
900
16,600 75,000
2,440
5,280
500
450
2009/2010
Ha
Tons
22,200 88,800
7,200
1,050
16.600 60,000
1,320
10,800
900
850
2010/2011
Ha
Tons
23,400
6,239
6,900
3,921
16,600
63,000
3,300
12,375
1,200
675
2011/2012
Ha
T
23,400
25,680
21,200
9,800
16,600
148,000
5,630
13,920
920
233
There is a possibility of increasing production with more use of fertilizers and improved
seed under good weather conditions. Practice of conservation agriculture, planting of
drought tolerant crops and training farmers on good methods of land preparations like
breaking the hardpans by use of implements like chisels would also improve crop
production.
(ii) Cash crops:
Coffee is the major cash crop. The following is coffee production data for the past five
years:
AREA (Ha)
2008/2009
2009/2010
2010/2011 2011/2012 2012/2013
(Tons)
(Tons)
(Tons)
(Tons)
(Tons)
12,655
2061.4
2500
1069.5
1714.8
There is a possibility of increasing production in the near future through improved
agricultural practices, use of improved varieties of seedlings are restant against diseases
and pests. To this moment the district council has established 45 nurseries for raising
seedlings of coffee which is resistant coffee berry disease (CBD) and leaf rust. The
nurseries have 16,751 coffee mother plants from which 276,894 seedlings are being
raised. These seedlings are normally distributed/sold to coffee farmers so that they can
imports their farms for better production.
A total of 26 furrows have been rehabilitated between 2006/2007 and 2012/2013 for
irrigation of coffee in order to increase production but there is still much to be done in
this area so as to have more coffee.
Normally the quality of coffee is the key factor to better price in the market, so much
effort are being made by the district and the farmers to make sure that coffee of the best
quality is produce and sold. To achieve this, three coffee farmers’ groups have
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rehabilitated their central coffee pulperies and some have united in groups with an
intention of ensuring that each member produce coffee of the highest class that they can
sell collectively at the highest possible market price. Already two groups are selling their
coffee direct to Tanzania Coffee Board in Moshi.
Irrigation is of vital importance both in the lowlands and highlands for reliable crop
production due to frequent occurrence of draughts. There is vast potential for irrigated
agriculture in the district. Currently 14,760 hectares of land are irrigated. There are 167
traditional irrigation furrows under the ownership of small scale farmers and 14 furrows
owned by estates. If these are rehabilitated irrigated area could be increased from the
present 14,760 hectares to 18,800 hectares.
Investment Opportunities in Agriculture
Tremendous investment opportunities are available in production, processing, marketing
and service provision in the crop and livestock sub sectors as follows:
i) Irrigation: As said above, about 27,406 hectares are suitable for irrigation; out of
which 17,030 hectares are under irrigation. Most the canals used for irrigation are the
traditional canals with very low efficiency due to seepage losses .This sector is the
district‘s priority as irrigation is the only reliable means of ensuring that sufficient
food is produced for home consumption and marketing.
Major constraints in this sector include, just mentioning a few:
 Lack of irrigation technicalities
 Lack of well constructed and efficient irrigation schemes leading to inefficiency
in irrigation thus low crop production and productivity.
 Lack of irrigators organization to manage most of the irrigation schemes
 Lack of enough water for irrigation as result of lack of enough rains and
reservoirs which could be used to store water that is lost as runoffs after the
normally short, unreliable and unevenly distributed rains.
Due the above narrated problems a great need is to:
- Building the capacity of the farmers and irrigators organizations so that the schemes can
be well managed to avoid the conflicts arising from water shortages and making sure the
efficient use of water. These interventions will lead to a great improvement in crop
production and productivity and thus food security.
- Construction of minidams to ensure that water can be reserved for use during dry
periods thus follow after end of rains.
Most of the areas that is under irrigation and that is potential for irrigation is suitable for
the production of bananas, coffee, rice, beans ,vegetable, pastures and many other crops
which are of great economic important to the economy of the Hai district community.
Suitable areas for rice production are available in Masama Rundugai and Machame
Weruweru wards. Investments opportunities are available in production of banana and
banana products for domestic and export markets. Areas which are producing and have
high potential for expansion of banana production are in the highland and some lowland .
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Coffee Industry
Coffee is one among the main cash crops in the district; the annual production is
averaging 50,000 metric tones. The processing of coffee was mostly done domestically
by coffee processing factories owned by Coffee growers’ cooperative Unions. Currently,
those factories have collapsed there is very little manufacturing of cured coffee into
Instant coffee proper processing of coffee at farm level. This implicates the availability of
investment opportunity in the processing coffee into cherries through the introduction of
coffee processing units (CPUs).
Fruit and vegetable Production and processing
Investment in agro-processing plants entails adding value, and improvement of standards
and quality. Agriculture in Tanzania and in Hai district in particular is dominated by
Primary production with negligible value adding especially at farm level. Many farmers
sell their produce unprocessed leading to the majority obtaining low prices. Losses too,
are sometimes high especially for perishable crops as they may not be stored for a long
time in their raw form. Agro- processing would increase rural incomes by adding values
to products. Processing also increases the shelf life of products thus offering more
marketing opportunities as the commodities may be stored for a longer period.
Agro –processing too, offers alternate employment opportunities thereby contributing to
poverty alleviation. Hai district is richly endowed with a large variety of Vegetables.
Negligible amount of fruits and vegetables produced is not processed. There is room for
large and small scale production of a range of tropical fruits and vegetables. Production
of most vegetables and fruits is characterized by uncontrolled use of agrochemicals that
may in the future be detrimental to consumer’s health. Potential areas for horticultural
crops are in the low lands and some highland parts of the district.
Opportunities are therefore available for the establishment of small scale processing and
Packaging plants in the district in areas with high potentials for production of fruits and
Vegetables. Much can be achieved with the involvement of farmer groups. There is also
an opportunity to train farmers on proper handling and application of agrochemicals and
other agricultural input so as to guide their health and that of the consumers.
Oilseed production and processing:
Tanzania still imports a lot of edible oil. Processing of oilseeds locally is important to
capture the market. The common oilseeds produced in the district are sunflower and
surflower in few arrears. There is a great room here to add value of sunflower through
enabling the farmers establish sunflower production groups and miniprocessing and
packaging plants.
Other crops: Cassava, sorghum, millets and various legumes can be produced in large
quantities for food and feed for domestic and export markets with the involvement of
individual farmers and farmer groups. Majority of small holder farmers in Hai district are
not well adapted to growing these crops and more badly they don’t prefer them for food.
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Groundnut is another crop which feature very well in lowlands with clay sandy and loam
sandy soils. Expecience shows that the mentioned crops grow very well in most parts of
the district, they are drought tolerant and they can give good crops with very little rains.
An opportunity is there for present to promote the production of these crops for
commercial and also to sensitize people to use them as their food.
Establishment of Farmers Resource Centers
Various areas of importance that need to be intervened and acted upon to improve crops
production and productivity and thus farmer’s livelihood have been identified. It is now
obvious that low use of agricultural technologies is one important limitation to
agricultural productivity in most third world countries including Tanzania and Hai district
in particular.
Adoption of agricultural technologies simply refers to the process through which farmers
acquire and use of improved agricultural technologies over a period of time. Higher use
of use of agricultural technologies has always been associated with:
 Farmer groups approach
 Farmer field schools
 Provision of training and technical support to farmers
For the council to be able to properly train the farmers and retrain the village extension
staff there is a great need to establish Agriculture Resource Centers and some Focal
Training Schools where farmers can be trained and imparted with various new
agricultural technologies.
Savings and Credit Cooperative Societies (SACCOs) and Agriculture and
Marketing Cooperative Societies (AMCOS)
There are a good number of SACCOS (32) with a total of 9295 members and AMCOS
(26) with a total 16,667 members in Hai District. SACCOS serve as microfinance
institutions and AMCOS serve as crop buying and selling (marketing) institutions.
Though these societies strive to meet their objectives of serving the Hai district
community and mostly the farmers, they have not done much because most of the
management personnel lack the general management skills especially those related to
financial management.
To improve the management of these SACCOS and AMCOS there is a need to capacitate
the management on various skills related to their daily operations especially financial.
The following interventions can thus result into a great performance in this sector:
 Training of Supervisory committees from the SACCOS and AMCOS on their
responsibilities.
 Training of Cooperative Secretaries on Elementary Book Keeping
 Training of Loan Committee Members from SACCOS on their responsibilities.
 Training of 15 SACCOS Treasurers on their career.
 Members empowerment in Cooperatives
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2.3 Industry
The district has 5 plots with an average of 5 acres which located at Machine tools in
Kimashuku Village, the area is 15kms from Distict head quarter and 10 kms from
Regional headquarter. The area is located along Moshi –Arusha road. The area is 30km
from Kilimanjaro International Airport (KIA) .Also there are quite number of essential
utilities that includes national grid electricity, water (well, gravity and river), telephone
(landline and tower for mobile phones including Tigo,Vodacom, airtel,Tantel and TTCL).
The area is located near to 5 hospitals (Hai Council Hospital, Machame, St. Joseph in
Moshi Municipal, Mawenzi and KCMC). The area is near to Machame gate (you can
view the snow of Mount Kilimanjaro while you are at Machine tools).
SURVEYED AREA AT SANYASTATION VILLAGE, KIA WARD (EPZ)
The area is near to Kilimanjaro International Airport (KIA), located near to Moshi –
Arusha road. The area is located near to KIA Lodge. Also the area is located on the road
to Mererani in Simanjiro District at Manyara Region (where by Tanzanite is found).
Essential utilities are available that includes water, electricity, telephones, Markets, Hai
District Council hospital. Other services are tourism attraction centres such as Mount
Kilimanjaro, Chemka hot spring, Mount Meru and Kikuletwa Power Station.
Below are various trades which operated in Hai District Council:
VENTURE /ENTERPRISE
Number
Selling accessories
08
Processing and Manufacturing of goods and
selling :
2.1 Small Scale
15
2.2 Medium Scale
2.3 Large Scale
01
Restaurant
48
Cooperative societies
36
Building Contractors :
10
5.1 Building society
5.2 Contractor class I
5.3 Contractor class II
5.4 Contractor class III
5.5 Contractor class IV
5.6 Contractor class V
1
Consultancy
02 Lawyers
General Trading :
Caring on a Dispensary,health centre,and lab clinic
30
Hospital
2
Selling Medicines (Pharmacy)
46
Hardware and building materials
40
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Workshop and Garage
Bakeries
Timber and furniture
Textile and garments
Book store and stationery
Silver and Gold smith
Livestock trading
Butcher
Flour/Oil Milling
Printing and Publishing of books and trading
Petrol station
Kiosk & Groceries
Hair salon & barber shop
Beauty Clinics
Agricultural Implements ,flour mills and
machines spares
Electrical pause and or household items
Electrical contractors:
Class A
Class B
Class C
Class D
General Merchandizing :
Whole sales
05
01
05
88
50
03
02
115
60
01
09
100
30
03
21
Sub-wholesale
Retail
Super Markets
Department stores
Motor oils and lubricant
Selling of fish
Tea room
Second based clothes
05
800
03
02
08
03
02
05
Spare parts
05
06
05
04
2.4 Livestock
1. DAIRY SECTOR
1. Milk processing plant;
Hai District is endowed with 38,000 dairy cattle which are kept on zero grazing units on
southern slopes of Mount Kilimanjaro where Chagga garden farming is practiced. It is
estimated that over 40mil.litres is milked annually most of this milk is consumed locally
and some is sold to urban areas of Moshi, Hai and Arusha as raw or cultured milk. There
is investment potential for modern milk processing plant in Hai town to collect and
process milk from Highland areas of Moshi rural, Hai, Siha and Arumeru districts.
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2. Milk collecting centers
To supply dairy plants, milk collection system has to be organized. A typical milk
collecting center will be powered by national grid electricity and backed by stand by
generators to ensure smooth running. At least every village in the highland will require a
milk collecting centre that can be operated commercially.
3. Milk Transportation;
To network the milk collecting centers with the milk plant there is a potential for
investment in milk collection system.
II. BEEF SECTOR
1. Hides and skins.
Hai District has about 150 slaughter slabs and 2 abattoirs slaughtering on average of 50
cattle per day. There is a potential for investment in hide processing plant that will collect
all hides from the slaughter slabs in the district.
2. Abattoir
Given the settlement and establishment of infrastructure there is a potential for
investment in a modern abattoir that will supply joints and carcasses to 160 butchers.
III. POULTRY SECTOR
1. Hatchery
Given the literacy level among youth in Hai district and general unemployment in the
same age group, there is potential for investment in hatcheries to supply one day old
chicks to individual youths or groups for production of broiler and eggs for the middle
class community members in the northern zone.
2. Broiler Abattoir
There is also a potential for investment for a broiler abattoir for poultry meat for export
through Kilimanjaro Airport
IV. FODDER PRODUCTION
1. Hai District has a number of large scale farms with water rights. There is potential for
hay production to supply small scale dairy farmers and the pastoralists during the dry
seasons.
2.5 Natural Resources
The district is encountering serious environmental shortfalls because of the declining /
dwindling natural resource balance; against community development demand as well as
competition for other common resources.
Ground and surface water distribution, flow & discharges have decreased as a result of
decreased Rainfall intensities and pattern, which is unevenly distributed too. In general
terms weather situation or extremities determine the type of economic development
undertaking That is,
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o In the rural areas, agricultural economy is extensively uncontrolled and largely raindependent; the system which neither ”Adopt good farming practices and appropriate
CONSERVATION PRACTICES FOR FORESTS, WATER AND land / SOILS;
require employment of improved land / farm management and technology; Control
agrochemicals and other pollutants led into water and water streams; subsequently
affecting downstream bio-diverse both flora and fauna. Downstream Water flow
with plenty of mud and silt which destroy habitation in the river ecosystem”.
o Sky - rocket prices for building materials [minerals and timber) hence pausing a
great threat to the existing environment. More so, on the GREEN and RED
o Snow on Kibo peak has decreased along side with forest cover opening. Likewise
rivers have lost their annual capability for discharging continued volumes of water;
In town and rising trading centers, population influx has increased at an alarming rate. In
turn, land in / and around the HAI township is sold at an increasing and competing prices
per acre / plot (over THREE – FIVE million Tanzania shillings) by the owners. As a
result causing tremendous growth of construction industry in Bomang`ombe town centre,
as well as Kwa Sadala and Maili Sita satelites. On the other hand, settlements in both
planned / unplanned result in increased length of road network, markets and water
services requirement. Subsequently causing rising volume of solid/ domestic liquid
wastes in residential / commercial areas within townships.
Investment Opportunities
Climatic conditions, cool weather and Mt. Kilimanjaro snow cap under equator sun are
attractants for Tourists and growing ecotourism, and that if left undisturbed vegetation
recovery and water catchment /source stabilization with increased water discharge
ultimately,
-The situation which allows for fast investments from private sectors, NGO and CBO in
terms of creating micro/macro- economic touristic centers as well as group beekeeping
industry and alternative timber and non timber use, programs.
Lands
Proper Hai town Master Plan – provides for better planned and built settlements as well
as landscape and controlled environmental management – infrastructure for roads, water
and electrical layout and network.
However, existing master plan require significant review at any cost. The Hai District
Council should invest upon in order facilitate systematically planned social economic
services.
Rainwater Harvesting:
Existing water schemes / Boards - Uroki – Bomang’ombe, Losaa - KIA, Lyamungo,
Machame and Mkalama – makes it easy for fast growth /development of Hai town which
has all potential for being green as a result of available and accessible pipe water. On the
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other hand existence of traditional irrigation canals is assurance for stratified green and
stabilized red environments.
However, the demand for water is high such that it would be proposed to invest more into
rainwater harvesting supply and deep well water scheme.
Existence of functioning Land tribune in all 60 villages; and 14 wards. – eases procedure
of resolving land / natural resource use conflicts within short time.
Given the congestion in the rural, and the given urban immigration it is quite essential
that the government should invest in land use plan and provision of land ownership
rights.
2.6 Education
Hai District Council has a total number of 119 registered primary schools out of which,
104 are public primary schools and 15 are private primary schools. There are 45
Secondary schools, where 16 are private schools and 29 Government schools; Education
for children with special needs is also provided in five special schools of KIA, Mbweera,
St Francis, Rundugai, and Hai.
Enrolment in public primary schools in 2013 is 31,656 pupils whereby 16,004 are boys
and 15,652 are girls and in secondary schools Enrollment in the year 2013 is 12,116
students, among them 6,364 are girls and 5,752 are boys.
Hai District Council has one Teacher’s Resource Center (TRC), five Sub Centers, one
Teacher’s Training College (TTC) and three Training Centers (TC’s).
The national Examination Results for five consecutive years (2008- 2012), the
performance Standard has been increasing for primary schools as follows: - 2008 –
(55.8%), 2009–(62%), 2010–(74.6%), 2011–(79%), and 2012–(86%) and three
consecutive years for Secondary schools has being fluctuating due to unfavorable
learning situation, the performance standard were as follows (2010) 48%, (2011) 66%
and (2012) 44%.
Investment Opportunities
Hai District Council like any other Council in Tanzania has the role of providing quality
education for sustainable development of the country. However more efforts have been
made to identify investments opportunities in education sector. The following are some
of the needs identified after the assessment of needs and available infrastructures, as it is
shown in table below:S/No
DESCRIPTION
NEEDS AVAILABLE DEFICIT
1
Teachers Training College (TTC)
3
1
2
2
Universities
1
NIL
1
3
Vocational Education Training (VETA)
15
10
10
4
Hostels
30
NIL
30
5
Teachers Resources Centers
18
5
13
6
Teacher’s houses
1591
211
1380
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1. Hostels
The demand of Hostels is very high as about 818 students in Primary schools and 5701 in
Secondary schools stay far from school where they walk for a long distance of more than
three kilometers from their residential areas to school. This distance makes them tired and
uncomfortable to learn which leading to poor performance.
Construction of hostels will improve performance as students will be comfortable and
will have enough time to study. Also it will help us to reduce dropout rate, early
pregnancies, and sexual harassment especially for girls.
The society need hostels for the students but due to poor economic situation they fail to
construct them inspite of availability of enough area for the construction of these hostels,
especially for secondary schools, more efforts should also be directed to Maasai society
which has a low knowledge about education and majority of students stay far from school
in both primary and secondary schools.
The table below shows the number of the students walking more than three kilometers:-
Number of students walking more than three kilometer
S/No
1
2
NAME
Primary School Students
Secondary School Students
TOTAL
BOYS
427
3069
3496
GIRLS
391
2632
3023
TOTAL
818
5701
6219
2. Colleges/Universities
One of the key factors in teaching is quality education. The District Council has 1591
teachers of which 1.2% are grade C, 67% are grade A, 16.4% diploma 15% degree
holder. The demand of colleges is also high and this can students and the society at large,
but there are no enough colleges and universities as compared to the needs of teachers
since most of teachers are certificate level and diploma according to the data.
Construction of colleges and universities will improve performance to students and
increase competence and effectiveness to teachers. Hence the District Council will have
enough teachers, who will be motivated to upgrade themselves for further studies, and
students will study hard as colleges and universities are in place.
3. Teacher’s Resource Centers.
Teacher’s resource centers are very important because they will encourage teachers to
build their capacity to teach and exchange ideas from different areas through their
coordination. There are no enough Teachers resource centers in Hai District only 5
teacher’s resource centers are available. These centers are few as compared to the need
With TRC will help Primary school teachers in the in – service programs in order to
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have competent teachers, Secondary school teachers, society in general and repeaters, to
achieve their goals.
4. Teacher’s Houses.
Teacher’s houses investment can be established in two ways. One is construction of
houses within school environment whereby schools will be responsible to meet
construction cost. Second, construction of houses out of the schools environment but near
to schools for the purpose of teachers to be offered as loans and being deducted from
their salaries and eventually after completion of payment to own the houses. By doing so,
this system will help education administrators to recruit and retain teachers in their
working stations.
2.7 Health
The council has 61 health facilities, 2 Hospital in which 1 is a Government Hospital and
1 is a CDH, Health centres 4 Government owned, 1 FBOs owned and owned by private,
53 dispensaries in which 26 are government owned, 12 owned by FBO and 15 are private
owned.
Opportunities for investment
Hai District Hospital is located at Hai Town ward; it’s about 500 meters from the main
road from Arusha – Moshi. It one of fastest growing council in Northern part of
Tanzania for this reason the Hai council needs to be prepared in order to cope with the
population growth and peoples’ health by providing best quality health. Right now the
department of health has few numbers of skilled personnel on a laboratory, has no
diagnostic centers, we do believe we can provide best quality of health through if we
invest on following areas:A. Construction of Health colleges in Hai Council
Like many council in Tanzania, Hai Council is faced by many health problems including
shortage and poor laboratories services. The country health services provision have
recently been liberalized after a long period of monopoly by the government and few
public organizations. This has empowered individual doctors or group of doctors to open
their own clinics, health centers of hospitals. The Hai Mjini is now densely populated
with people. The population is facing poor laboratories services, while the council is
rapidly expanding as a commercial city we need skilled laboratory technologist who has
an associate’s degree or a certificate for them to practice and provide best quality of
health services by establishing a college of laboratories with intention of producing and
or upgrading to highly qualified lab technologist who will meet the increasing demand in
high quality care and reducing unskilled personnel at the council.
B. Construction of Diagnostic Unit in Hai Council
The government sector on the other hand is over utilized and faces shortage of diagnostic
equipment mainly due to financial constraints. We hope that through construction of
major diagnostic units which comprises the following:-
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1.
2.
3.
4.
5.
CT – Scan
MRI
X-Ray
Ultrasound
Laboratory unity
The council will abolish the behavior of people going outside the council for check up
and body examination; doctors will work on ideal and comfortable working in areas were
equipments are available and this we lead to immediate problem solving of patients at
district level, it also provide ideal environment for practical studies of medical students at
our council.
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PART THREE:
3.0 Conclusion
There are ample potential investment and trade opportunities in Hai District Council.
Initiative has been taken to facilitating investment undertakings in various sectors though
there are conducive investment policies and regulatory frameworks are in place.
The investment Policy encourages Private investors to proactively get engaged
individually, through joint ventures and through Public- Private Partnership [PPP].
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