Diagnostic Social & Inclusive Business - Tanzanie

The purpose of this study is to conduct a diagnosis of what is known as "Social & Inclusive Business" in Tanzania, within the broader context of a work carried out in 16 African countries, with the aim of structuring an advocacy and an ecosystem favorable to the development of social and inclusive businesses. The scope of the diagnosis was defined through an extensive process of definition and framing: the task involved examining institutional, academic, and legal definitions within the African, international, European, and French contexts, and actively relating them to the vision of the Social Entrepreneurs Movement. This approach aimed to produce a coherent object of study that takes into account the French conception of social and inclusive business, while being respectful and relevant in both international and African contexts. This report on "Social & Inclusive Business" in Tanzania, as with each report for other countries, aims to identify, catalog, and analyze businesses that meet the definitions of "social and inclusive business" active in the country. It incorporates the issue of formalizing practices that fall outside the state and market, or at least outside the principles of market exchange. Three groups of definitions are produced by our studies: (i) the definition of our object of study developed in the framing document; (ii) formal national definitions provided by ecosystem actors; (iii) local definitions constructed post facto, through induction from the analysis of field practices.