As Dar es Salaam rapidly urbanizes, ensuring safe, equitable, and efficient transport is crucial for Tanzania's development. ieConnect actively supports the government in this pursuit, generating evidence to inform transport policy and investments. A key element of ieConnect’s work in Tanzania focuses on evaluating the socioeconomic impacts of Dar es Salaam’s Bus Rapid Transit (BRT) system, a central part of Tanzania's National Transport Policy. The BRT evaluation laid groundwork for further research into women's access to safe transit. Expanding on this, the team developed a mobile app, Njiani, enabling users to record gender-based violence (GBV) incidents experienced or witnessed during daily commutes. Focusing on transport safety more broadly, the team addressed Road Traffic Crashes (RTCs)—a significant and growing burden in Tanzania, with a fatality rate 1.7 times the global average. ieConnect generated evidence by building an extensive trauma registry, with over 18,000 incidents, to inform road safety planning and post-crash emergency care, filling a major data gap in the region. While supporting Tanzania's transport projects, ieConnect leverages learnings to inform transport investments across Sub-Saharan Africa.
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Leveraging Data for Safe, Equitable, and Efficient Transport Systems. Tanzania Country Brief | September 2025
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9/23/2025 09:29:00 AM
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9/23/2025 09:29:00 AM
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ieConnect Team
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Brief (BRI)
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English
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Tanzania
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Africa East (AFE)
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Urban Transport,Road Safety,Gender and Transport
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Leveraging Data for Safe, Equitable, and Efficient Transport Systems
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As Dar es Salaam rapidly urbanizes, ensuring safe, equitable, and efficient transport is crucial for Tanzania's development. ieConnect actively supports the government in this pursuit, generating evidence to inform transport policy and investments. A key element of ieConnect’s work in Tanzania focuses on evaluating the socioeconomic impacts of Dar es Salaam’s Bus Rapid Transit (BRT) system, a central part of Tanzania's National Transport Policy. The BRT evaluation laid groundwork for further research into women's access to safe transit. Expanding on this, the team developed a mobile app, Njiani, enabling users to record gender-based violence (GBV) incidents experienced or witnessed during daily commutes. Focusing on transport safety more broadly, the team addressed Road Traffic Crashes (RTCs)—a significant and growing burden in Tanzania, with a fatality rate 1.7 times the global average. ieConnect generated evidence by building an extensive trauma registry, with over 18,000 incidents, to inform road safety planning and post-crash emergency care, filling a major data gap in the region. While supporting Tanzania's transport projects, ieConnect leverages learnings to inform transport investments across Sub-Saharan Africa.
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