Promoting Cross-Country Knowledge Sharing and Learning in ESA: Tanzania rural finance project team visits Ethiopia's rural financial services project

From IFAD social reporting blog Sun Jul 13 2014, 21:37:00

The Tanzanian project team with beneficiaries in Ethiopia

The Government of Tanzania launched a knowledge sharing exchange for its rural finance team from 23rd - 27th June 2014, to view successes and lessons learned in Ethiopia's rural financial services project. Tanzania and Ethiopia both have similar historical contexts; transitioning from a heavily socialist regime - the period of the Derg in Ethiopia and President Julius Nyerere's African socialism based on Ujamma, a Swahili word and concept of development through the people or community - to a more open financial economy. 

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