corruption is a form of dishonesty or a criminal offense which is undertaken by a person or

an organization which is entrusted in a position of authority, in order to acquire illicit benefits or

abuse power for one's personal gain. Corruption may involve many activities which include
bribery ,influence peddling and the embezzlement and it may also involve practices which are
legal in many countries. Corruption can take many forms, and can include behaviours like public
servants demanding or taking money or favours in exchange for services, politicians misusing
public money or granting public jobs or contracts to their sponsors, friends and families,
corporations bribing officials to get lucrative deals all these different types are being practiced in
Tanzania.Also Corruption can happen anywhere in business, government, the courts, the media,
and in civil society, as well as across all sectors from health and education to infrastructure and
sports. Corruption can involve anyone: politicians, government officials, public servants,
business people or members of the public. Corruption happens in the shadows, often with the
help of professional enablers such as bankers, lawyers, accountants and real estate agents,
opaque financial systems and anonymous shell companies that allow corruption schemes to
flourish and the corrupt to launder and hide their illicit wealth. Corruption adapts to different
contexts and changing circumstances. It can evolve in response to changes in rules, legislation
and even technology.All these aspects in Tanzania corruption plays a big role and even results to
unfairness and non equality in the society.In Anti corruption there is measures ,strategies and
impacts after the implementation in the society.As an advisor in the Tanzanian government the
following are the measures in anti corruption will be implemented to foster development and
enhance transparency.
oversight bodies to combat corruption. Preventive and deterrent measures are important
and required to minimise incidence of corruption. The case studies of Tanzania. Specialized anti-
corruption agencies are established with a mandate to carry out three major functions, namely,
preventive, investigation and prosecution and sensitization and or advisory functions. The anti-
corruption bodies are important because, they possess specialized skills that is required in
investigative technique of handling complex corruption cases. The most notable constraints in
these agencies with the exception of Hong-Kong are both human and financial to fulfil their
mandates. It is observed that optimally, they should enjoy some form of arms-length or
independent relationship with state. The case studies show that organizations that ostensibly
have sweeping powers to fight corruption can be rendered ineffective by insufficient resources,
often directly related to government control of their budget allocations and by reporting
arrangements that leave them susceptible to central government control (Rick Stapenhurst and
Shahrzad Sedigh, 1999). Political will becomes necessary if measures to fight corruption are to
be sustainable because if those who govern society lack the political will to refrain from
corruption and institute change, real reform is difficult to implement and sustain. The public
awareness component in the anti-corruption strategy is intended to expand awareness of
corruption by the civil society and the private sector and actate them to press for change. Within
anti -corrup tion agencies, the Community Education Department is responsible for the
education, publicity and moral integrity. Its role is to mobilize public support in the fight against
corruption by out-reaching broad community – based programmes using the mass media,
specific programmes that are designed to raise the level of public awareness and willingness to
report promptly and suspicious of corruption offences.
Establishing good governance. In May 2001, the government instituted a co-ordinating unit
within the President’s office that will co-ordinate all good governance programmes in the country
for the purposes of establishing evaluation and monitoring of all activities that are undertaken in
the good governance reforms including the NACSAP. This will bring about harmonization,
consistency, uniformity and close follow up of implementation of the action plans as set out in
the time-frame matrix of each sector. Also this will help to determine budget allocation
requirements for the action plans identified by each sector specific implementation programme.
The over all objective of the co-ordination is to measure performance and comparing the
perception indicators, access and transparency from the initial diagnostics, that those who are
involved can see which areas have shown improvements and why.
Through conducting surveys. The carrying out of surveys will help to measure the extent
and nature of corruption in a country, measuring corruption helps to establish priorities for
reforms by identifying activities and agencies where corruption is rampant. The use of surveys is
good evidence to depersonalize the debate on corruption and this in turn will influence the shift
of focus to substantive issues, education on the costs of corruption and serves as a baseline
against which to successes and failures of the reform are measured. Diagnostic surveys are
therefore an integral part of building consensus and designing anti-corruption programme that
reflect reality on the ground. The survey should establish the scope and extent of the problem to
be surveyed. Selection of governance problem on geographical basis has to be made, the
institutions to be surveyed have to be known, whether social services delivery institutions. The
diagnostic surveys provide qualitative and quantitative information for policy makers and are
useful tools for anti-corruptions reforms.
Anti corruption in Tanzanian as an advisor the following are the suggestions on the strategies
fighting against corruption.
By Paying civil servants well. Whether civil servants are appropriately compensated or
grossly underpaid will clearly affect motivation and incentives. If public sector wages are too low,
employees may find themselves under pressure to supplement their incomes in unofficial ways.
Van Rijckeghem and Weder (2001) did some empirical work showing that in a sample of less
developed countries, there is an inverse relationship between the level of public sector wages
and the incidence of corruption.Example in a country like Tanzania where many sectors
employees are not being paid well and thus result to bribery so by improving the salaries then it
may result to reduce or eliminate corruption in Tanzania.
Deploying smart technology. Just as government-induced distortions provide many
opportunities for corruption, it is also the case that frequent, direct contact between government
officials and citizens can open the way for illicit transactions. One way to address this problem is
to use readily available technologies to encourage more of an arms- length relationship between
officials and civil society; in this respect the Internet has been proved to be an effective tool to
reduce corruption. In a country like Tanzania where still there is low use of technology it results a
big room for civil and government officials to practice corruption this when it includes physical
contact between government officials and citizen but through deploying smart technology
example in roads where some citizens breaks the rules and gives bribes to government
officials,but by deploying a smart technology it will eliminate the room of bribery where the
citizen will have make transactions through online .
Creating transparency and openness government spending. Subsidies, tax exemptions,
public procurement of goods and services, soft credits, extra- budgetary funds under the control
of politicians all are elements of the various ways in which governments manage public
resources. Governments collect taxes, tap the capital markets to raise money, receive foreign aid
and develop mechanisms to allocate these resources to satisfy a multiplicity of needs. Some
countries do this in ways that are relatively transparent and make efforts to ensure that
resources will be used in the public interest. The more open and transparent the process, the
less opportunity it will provide for malfeasance and abuse. In a Country like Tanzania where if this
strategy would be used where citizens are able to scrutinize government activities and debate
the merits of various public policies also makes a difference. In this respect, press freedoms and
levels of literacy will, likewise, shape in important ways the context for reforms. Whether the
country has an active civil society, with a culture of participation could be an important
ingredient supporting various strategies aimed at reducing corruption.
The following are the impacts on Tanzania’s development goals after the Anti corruption.
results to fairness and justice .