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RIU Tanzania explores the frustrations of policy change and time lag of changing practice
Update on June News
22 August 2010

On 21 June 2010 RIU news announced that RIU Tanzania had achieved a policy change triumph in relation to import duties on hatchery equipment. This was timely because RIU Tanzania was in the process of helping hatcheries to import equipment to scale up indigenous poultry production as part of the Poultry innovation platform (entrepreneurship).

Changing the policy is the start of the story - but by no means the end and Vera Mugittu, Country Coordinator RIU Tanzania, picks up the story in her latest update. Vera concludes:
"Changing policies and their respective systems in a country like Tanzania is a demanding task. It is indeed too costly for the poor emerging entrepreneurs to deal with, hence someone stronger than them must do it with them."
Read her account RIU Tanzania: A guinea pig for testing systems after a policy change

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