National Blueprint · One of 195
A nation of 70.5 million that inaugurated the 2,115 megawatt Julius Nyerere hydropower station in August 2026, and where almost half of citizens are still without electricity.
Perfect Nations values what Tanzania owns and raises capital against it, through innovative financing for development (FfD) and super intelligence (SI).
Tanzania at a glance
What we do for Tanzania
Perfect Nations is a new-age sovereign advisory firm, and its clients are nations.
The whole logo: a Perfect Nation, where every citizen has all seven basic standards of living, led by good governance.
01Assets · The cup · Sovereign Assets
Each is owned today, earns today, and can carry Tanzania toward seven basic standards of living for every citizen.
2,115 MWJulius Nyerere Hydropower Station, 2026
Inaugurated on 22 August 2026. Regions never on the national grid are now joining it.
49.6%Of land under forest, 2024
Woodland and forest across half the country.
6.7%Natural resource rents, share of GDP, 2021
The Serengeti, Kilimanjaro and the Great Migration, and gold beneath the ground.
45.1%Of land in agriculture, 2024
Farms across nearly half the country, while 19.1% of people are undernourished.
70.5mCitizens, 2025
Young and fast-growing. One in three lives in a city.
02Capital · The laurels · Capital Architecture
Bonds, guarantees, swaps and loans that raise capital against what Tanzania owns, every line sourced.
Capital ArchitectureThe record in figures
Capital already committed
Signed, announced 4 November 2026 · Tabora–Kigoma, 411 km, electrified · $720 million guaranteed lending and $480 million on clean sovereign risk · AfDB partial credit guarantee of up to $800 million
Part of a $2.3 billion financing package for the section
A commercial facility from nine banks, co-arranged by Deutsche Bank and Société Générale, for the 411-kilometre electrified Tabora–Kigoma section of the Standard Gauge Railway. At its centre is an African Development Bank partial credit guarantee of up to $800 million, the Bank’s largest to date, with $405.5 million of the exposure placed with international insurers. The AfDB calls Lot 6 a strategic link in Tanzania’s railway network; it serves the livelihood and food standards.
Deutsche BankSociété GénéraleHSBCCommerzbankNedbankStanbic Bank TanzaniaFirst Abu Dhabi BankFirstBank UKBank of Africa United KingdomAfrican Development Bank
SourceApproved, announced 31 March 2026 · IDA · Program-for-Results
About one million Tanzanians, at least 45% of them women
Results-based financing to raise the number of graduates with job-relevant skills in priority sectors and to widen access to technical and vocational education. About one million Tanzanians are to benefit, which serves the education and livelihood standards.
World Bank
SourceApproved, announced 31 March 2026 · IDA
About 2.2 million people
Strengthens income-generating opportunities and human capital for poor households, and the national social protection system, through productive cash transfers and climate-smart public works for about 2.2 million people. It serves the food and livelihood standards.
World Bank
SourceAnnounced 5 June 2025 · IDA credit · $100 million budget support and $200 million Cat-DDO
An estimated 1.9 million Tanzanians to benefit
Budget support for reforms in emergency response, flood early warning, the Contingency Fund, risk-informed urban planning and Zanzibar’s water and energy sectors, with $200 million of contingent financing to help the Government respond to emergencies. It protects the shelter and livelihood standards.
World Bank
SourceIDA credit 7456-TZ · Financing Agreement signed 12 September 2024 · Program-for-Results · Closing 29 December 2028
Target: 2,397,606 grid connections, from 1,585,000
Results-based financing to accelerate access to sustainable, reliable and clean energy, paid mainly on new grid connections. It serves the energy standard, which sets Tanzania’s Coverage.
World Bank
SourceApproved June 2024 for 150 percent of quota · 23 months, extended by 3 months in May 2026 · Final third and fourth reviews completed 10 July 2026
Total access about $636.5 million after the final reviews
IMF support for reforms to reduce prospective balance of payments risks and enhance economic resilience to climate change. The final reviews, completed on 10 July 2026, allowed a disbursement of about $289.7 million; three reform measures related to the energy sector were not completed.
International Monetary Fund
SourceApproved 20 December 2023 · IDA financing · Development Policy Financing
Budget support for reforms
Supports reforms to improve the business climate, strengthen the management of state-owned enterprises, improve transparency and foster economic resilience, building on the first operation, approved in December 2022.
World Bank
SourceApproved, announced 31 May 2023 · IDA · Program-for-Results
At least 300,000 farmers, nearly half of them women
Results-based financing for research, extension and seeds, resilient rural infrastructure and fiscal performance under the Agriculture Sector Development Program II. At least 300,000 farmers are to adopt resilience-enhancing technologies, which serves the food standard.
World Bank
SourceApproved, announced 26 September 2022 · IDA credit · Program-for-Results
Plus a $6 million ESMAP grant
Additional financing for an additional 1,000,000 last-mile grid connections, including 8,500 education facilities and 2,500 healthcare facilities. It serves the energy standard.
World Bank
SourceApproved July 2022 for SDR 795.58 million, about $1,046 million at approval · 40 months, extended by 6 months in June 2024 and by 3 months in May 2026 · Final sixth and seventh reviews completed 10 July 2026
Total access about $1,063 million after the final reviews
IMF lending to support economic recovery, preserve macro-financial stability and promote sustainable and inclusive growth. The final reviews, completed on 10 July 2026, allowed a disbursement of about $154.1 million.
International Monetary Fund
SourceApproved 17 December 2021 · Program-for-Results
More than 12 million children
Results-based financing for safer, child-friendly schools, including at least 12,000 classrooms, for teacher skills through at least 800 primary hub schools, and for education financing. It serves the education standard.
World Bank
SourceApproved by the GCF Board 7 October 2021 · Loans $70 million, grants $20 million, guarantees $10 million · Accredited entity: CRDB Bank Plc · Estimated completion 20 September 2027
Total value $200 million, with $100 million of co-financing
A Green Climate Fund programme, run through CRDB Bank, that combines loans, grants and guarantees for climate adaptation technologies in farming. The GCF reports 65% of its financing disbursed. It serves the food and livelihood standards.
Green Climate FundCRDB Bank
SourceApproved 12 September 2019 · IDA credit
Over five million Tanzanians, more than half of them women
Supports poor households to improve food consumption and livelihoods, and children’s school attendance and access to health care. It serves the food, livelihood, education and health standards.
World Bank
SourceOriginal credit approved June 2018 · Additional financing approved 14 December 2022
Plus a $300 million IDA credit and a $4.9 million ESMAP grant, December 2022
Rural water supply and sanitation, financed on results. With the additional financing of 2022, up to 10 million Tanzanians are to gain improved water supply and nine million better sanitation, which serves the water and shelter standards.
World Bank
SourceApproved 18 June 2018 · IDA credit
Plus a $10 million IDA grant
Raises power transmission capacity to the southern regions of Tanzania and strengthens the institutions of Tanzania and the Eastern Africa Power Pool for regional power trade. It serves the energy standard.
World Bank
SourceApproved 21 October 2026 · Loan to the Government, invested as equity in TADB · Part of a $120 million initiative, with $60 million from the Government
The AfDB expects 8,000 jobs
An African Development Bank loan, channelled through the Ministry of Finance and the Office of the Treasury Registrar, that strengthens the capital of the Tanzania Agricultural Development Bank so that it can lend more, and for longer, to farmers and agricultural entrepreneurs. It serves the food and livelihood standards.
African Development BankTanzania Agricultural Development Bank
SourceSigned 24 July 2026 · Intermediated loan to the Tanzania Agricultural Development Bank
Coffee, cashew nut and rice value chains
A European Investment Bank loan to the Tanzania Agricultural Development Bank, which lends on mainly to small and medium-sized enterprises in the coffee, cashew nut and rice value chains, with a focus on women’s economic empowerment. It serves the food and livelihood standards.
European Investment BankTanzania Agricultural Development Bank
SourceApproved, announced 18 July 2025 · Five years · High and medium voltage submarine cables
Last-mile connections for 465,000 people
African Development Bank financing for submarine power cables to Zanzibar (Unguja and Pemba) and Mafia Island, with last-mile electricity connections for 465,000 people and electric cooking appliances for 335,300 Tanzanians. It reaches the energy standard, which sets Tanzania’s Coverage.
African Development Bank
SourceApproved 23 August 2026 by the 159th EDCF Operating Committee · Tied EDCF loan
The first AI project of the EDCF, according to Korea’s Ministry of Economy and Finance
A Korean Economic Development Cooperation Fund loan to build and equip an education institute with four departments, in AI, robotics, data analysis and the Internet of Things, with a network system and curricula. It serves the education and livelihood standards.
Economic Development Cooperation Fund (EDCF), KoreaMinistry of Economy and Finance, Korea
SourceSigned 14 January 2025 · Japanese ODA loan · 0.20% a year, 40 years, 10 years’ grace · Executing agency: Tanzania Agricultural Development Bank
JPY 22,742 million
A JICA loan, lent on by the Tanzania Agricultural Development Bank as medium- and long-term sub-loans to small-sized farms, farming household groups and agriculture-related companies, with funds for women and young people growing horticultural crops. It serves the food and livelihood standards.
JICATanzania Agricultural Development Bank
SourceBond issued 25 June 2026 · TZS 262.5 billion, 5 years, 7.60% coupon, maturing 15 June 2031 · Listed on the London Stock Exchange
20% for women-owned micro, small and medium-sized enterprises
IFC issued a Tanzanian shilling bond, listed on the London Stock Exchange, to support a $100 million equivalent shilling loan to NMB Bank for micro, small and medium-sized enterprises across Tanzania. Long-term funding in the local currency serves the livelihood standard.
IFCNMB Bank
Source
Neema MwakyusaNation Steward of Tanzania · SI Researcher
Independent firms and social enterprises already at work in Tanzania, highlighted by Perfect Nations. None is a partner of Perfect Nations.
Works with farmers in Iringa, Njombe, Songwe and Mbeya, with pilots in Morogoro, Dodoma and Singida, through retail shops, agroforestry, market access and extension. It counts 100,000 farmers served in Tanzania.
One Acre FundHas served nearly 1.2 million Tanzanians since 2013, including through solar-powered water systems in the Nyarugusu and Nduta refugee camps and community-managed systems for host communities.
Water MissionA mortgage finance institution that began operations in October 2017. In June 2024 IFC approved a seven-year, shilling-linked loan of $2 million for its housing finance lending, with a currency hedge on a further $10 million from parallel lenders.
IFC, 2024Sells solar home systems and mobile phones in Tanzania through its pay-go business. In August 2023 TDB Group said it was extending $30 million under a securitisation set to mobilise $125 million in funding for d.light, to reach more low-income households in Tanzania.
TDB Group, 2023A non-profit social enterprise based in Dar es Salaam that makes educational cartoons, among them Ubongo Kids, launched in Tanzania in 2014, and Akili and Me, carried on TV, radio and mobile phones.
UbongoOpened an Aga Khan Polyclinic in the Old Dispensary in Stone Town, Zanzibar, in April 2023. Its work has included a Tsh 192 billion (€75 million) expansion of the Aga Khan Hospital in Dar es Salaam, funded by the Government of France through a loan from the Agence Française de Développement, and by the Aga Khan Development Network.
AKDN, 2023Originally established as the National Microfinance Bank, it is lending a $100 million equivalent shilling loan from IFC to micro, small and medium-sized enterprises, with 20% dedicated to women-owned enterprises.
IFC, 202603Solutions · The seven stars · Perfect Capita
Perfect Capita is the yearly cost, per person, of lifting everyone above the Living Line in all seven basic living standards, set with Tanzania in its own prices.
How Perfect Capita worksTap a star for its figure and source.
The price of Perfect Tanzania
To be set with Tanzania, from its own figures and in its own prices: Perfect Capita times the people of Tanzania, each year.
Perfect Nations estimate, to be confirmed with Tanzania. Figures marked dated rest on surveys more than five years old; lenient measures are marked as such. The strict measures
Strict measures. Food: share not moderately or severely food insecure (FAO). Water: safely managed drinking water where measured; where it is not, basic water, marked as such. Shelter: the lower of safely managed sanitation and the share outside urban slums. Energy: the lower of electricity per person against 1,000 kWh and clean cooking. Education: the lower of children reading by the end of primary school and lower-secondary completion. Health: WHO service coverage index. Livelihood: share above the stricter of the national poverty line and the World Bank line for the nation’s income group. Each figure links to its source.
Solution No. 33
The guarantee that brought nine banks to the railway now brings power and clean cooking home.
~63mTanzanians who cook without clean fuel
Deal Note No. 11
$1.2bncommercial facility for the Tabora–Kigoma railway
You have just built one of the largest power stations in Africa. … The power is made. Half of you are still waiting for it.
“You built the power station. Now build the last mile to every home.”
Work with us · The ReDesign Studio
One mission, three depths: the same four moves for Tanzania, taken as far toward market as you choose.
For the Government of Tanzania, its development partners and investors. Scope and fees are agreed in writing before any work begins.
Mandate 013 hours
A private session for the people who decide.
You leave withThe gap, named and sized
Mandate 023 days
Your team and ours, working the blueprint together.
You leave withThe structure, drawn
Mandate 03End to end
Led personally by the President and CEO.
You leave withA structure ready for market
Where Tanzanians and Co-designers design the nation they want to live in.
Writings
Up to 1,500 words on your vision of Perfect Tanzania, published with your name.
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Great local leaders: honest, dedicated and committed to basic standards of living for all. Every guest answers one question: “What does Tanzania already own, and how could it pay for a decent life for every citizen?”
Co-designers
Everyone who shares a vision, a voice or an enterprise here becomes a Co-designer of Perfect Tanzania.
Become a Co-designerThe Tanzania ReDesign Studio is open
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