Financial Risk:
Very High
Score:
29/100
Asset Disposals
Q24
42/100
How effective are controls over the disposal of assets, and is information on these disposals, and the proceeds of their sale, transparent?
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Procedures for disposal of public assets within the public sector are legislated for under the Public Procurement Act. [1] The Procurement Unit is the…
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There are planned disposals of assets, as there are regulations cited as the Public Procurement (Goods, Works, Non-consultant Services and Disposal of Public Assets…
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The annual Controller and Auditor General (CAG) report on Central Government for the year ended June 30, 2020 listed the Tanzania People’s Defence Force…
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Q25
50/100
Is independent and transparent scrutiny of asset disposals conducted by defence establishments, and are the reports of such scrutiny publicly available?
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As noted in 24C, the Controller and Auditor General (CAG) can only audit the information it is given, and its most recent audit report…
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There is an understanding in the public service that the defence sector is not subject to the same level of scrutiny as other sectors…
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There are timely audit reports prepared annually by the CAG which comprise all reports of funds accumulated by the defence sector. [1] [2] [3]…
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Secret Budgets
Q26
0/100
What percentage of defence and security expenditure in the budget year is dedicated to spending on secret items relating to national security and the intelligence services?
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The overall budgets of the intelligence and security agencies are not publicly available. No information is provided in the detailed budget books published annually…
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Q27
0/100
Is the legislature (or the appropriate legislative committee or members of the legislature) given full information for the budget year on the spending of all secret items relating to national security and military intelligence?
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The legislature is provided with wholly aggregrated expenditure figures, which may contain secret items, but cannot be disaggregrated. [1] [2]
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Q28
25/100
Are audit reports of the annual accounts of the security sector (the military and intelligence services) subject to parliamentary debate?
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The National Assembly does receive audit reports for the defence sector from the CAG on annual basis. [1] [2] [3] However, such reports do…
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According to Senior Personnel from the National Assembly, no information is given as far as secret items are concerned. [2] In turn, the parliament…
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Q29
50/100
In law, are off-budget military expenditures permitted, and if so, are they exceptional occurrences that are well-controlled? In practice, are there any off-budget military expenditures? If so, does evidence suggest this involves illicit economic activity?
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Off budget expenses, such as millitary involvement in natural disaster relief efforts, are permitted by law. [1] [2] [3] Such expenses are rare. However,…
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Some limited off-budget expenditures are recorded in aggregated form and not itemised in public recording. [1] It is also possible that some may occur…
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Given the available information, off-budget expenses in the defence sector are rare given the rarity of natural disasters. [1] [2] That said, since access…
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Q30
25/100
Are mechanisms for accessing information from the defence sector effective?
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The Access to Information Act 2016 governs access to information from the public service. [1] However, Section 6(3)(a) specifically allows information to be withheld…
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This indicator is not scored in the GDI. The government operates a system of classification of information under a clear legal framework to ensure…
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The Access to Information Act 2016 exempts most defence related information from being disclosed to the public. [1] It is not known whether there…
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Q31
13/100
Do national defence and security institutions have beneficial ownership of commercial businesses? If so, how transparent are details of the operations and finances of such businesses?
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The sector does have some commercial interests. [1] [2] [3] [4] Specifically, the defence sector has a total of three huge commercial ventures that…
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It is not clear how many military-owned enterprises there are. The website of SUMAJKT, the holding company for these enterprises, shows projects but does…
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Military-owned Businesses
Q32
38/100
Are military-owned businesses subject to transparent independent scrutiny at a recognised international standard?
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Millitary owned businesses are theoretically subject to scrutiny by the CAG and later by the Parliamentary Accounts Committee. [1] [2] [3] [4] However, the…
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Fragments of information about military owned businesses appear in the consolidated audit reports of the Controller and Auditor General, but they are not significant,…
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Illegal Private Enterprise
Q33
50/100
Is there evidence of unauthorised private enterprise by military or other defence ministry employees? If so, what is the government’s reaction to such enterprise?
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Public officials, including the military, are allowed to engage in business. The Public Leadership Code of Ethics Act 1995, [1] and the Code of…
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There is not enough information to score this indicator. Open source data did not provide any evidence of unauthorised private enterprise. However, to comprehensively…
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Actual Military Spending
Q77
25/100
Is comprehensive data on actual spending on defence published during the budget year?
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In each budgetary session of the parliament, actual spending of previous years in the defence sector are usually proactively published. [1] [2] However, such…
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WIth no disaggregated information, it is difficult to believe that significant areas of spending are fully disclosed during budgetary sessions. While there may be…
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General expenditure items are usually communicated in the following year. [1] [2] This means that in each budgetary session in parliament, the defence sector…
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Some general variances are usually stated. As explained before, the budgetary speech begins by tabling how the previously budget was spent. However, such variances…
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