INVESTMENT GUIDE

3.3 The Guide’s Target groups
The direct targeted beneficiaries of this Guide include:
• Investors, business owners and stakeholders, agricultural crop estates
and medium-to-large farms and value adding and marketing entities
intending to invest in Simiyu’s designated industry and business areas;
• Ministry of Trade, Industries and Investment;
• Primary stakeholders across value chains, including individual
entrepreneurs, importers and exporters of input and output factors,
and agriculture crops, livestock keepers and fisher folks, industry
organisations/marketing boards or organizations and exporters;
• Government Ministries, agencies, TIC, LGAs, EPZA, and parastatals
(e.g. those responsible for agriculture, industries, trade, finance, and
international cooperation);
• Other private sector entities;
• Academia/researchers in the Lake Zone and in Tanzania;
• Umbrella organizations such as the National Business Council, TCCIA,
PSPF, pension funds investing in agriculture and industries, and other
support institutions;
• Institutions overseeing the management of quality and safety
management issues, such as TBS, TFDA,;
• Organizations providing productive capacities, information and data,
Monitoring and Evaluation M&E, and other business support services,
such as the Industrialization Support Organizations (ISO), Textiles
Development Unit, BRELA, TRA, FCC, NEEC, TANTRADE, Industry
Support Organizations (ISOs), and agricultural and industrial extension
services providers, etc.;
• Selected Civil Society and NGOs; and
• Development partners, such as FAO, UNDP, World Bank, UNCTAD,
ITC, EU, UNIDO, TMEA, etc.
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