The World Bank has
just released a World doing Business report where Judiciary has attained high
ranking on enhancing business environment in doing business for 2016.Tanzania
is among the 189 World economies that are evaluated by the World Bank on the
easiness and conduciveness of their business regulatory system necessary for
investment attraction.
Presenting a paper on Doing Business
Report 2016 in Dar Es Salaam recently, the Court Administrator of High Court -Commercial
Division, Mr Willy Machumu said that, the trend for doing business and service
within the Judiciary has significantly improved better than before. According
to reports released by the World recently, Tanzania has improved in service
delivery in recent years.
The World doing
Business report is a series of cumulative report which presents quantitative
indicators on business regulations which can be compared within 189 economies
of the World. The World Doing Business Report broad objectives are to inform
various policy makers to improve quality of rules and regulation which aims on
improving private Sector economic understanding.
“It depicts how easy
or difficulty for local entrepreneur to open and run small to medium sized
business when complying with relevant regulations, in short it is matter of
measuring regulatory quality and efficiency in a given country how conducive is
the country for business grounds and investment attractions” he said.
2016 Doing business report reveals
that, Tanzania having population of 50,757.459 and GNI per CAPITAL equivalent
of USD 930 has ranked 6th among 29 low income countries in Easy
Doing Business and among the 47 of Sub Saharan has ranked number 15th it reads the report.
Cumulatively, the
doing business report represents the result of two aggregate measures namely
the Distance Frontier Score (DFT) and the easy of doing business Ranking (DB)
which Tanzania is ranked 79.58 far behind Newsland as the best performer in the
World. In the context of 10 track
changes in the business, Judiciary of Tanzania is directly subjected on the
issues of Enforcing Contracts and Resolving Insolvency.
In this category the
broad areas for contract Enforcement lies on measuring time required to enforce
a contract through the Court and accessed in different timeline such as time to
file and serve the case, time of trial and time to obtain the judgment, time to
enforce the Judgment, Court fees, Attorneys’ fees, and Enforcement fees and the
last is the Quality of Judicial Process Index like Court Structures, Case
Management, Court automation.
The Judiciary has
recorded significant improvement and efficiency in areas Contract Enforcements
compared to its peers in East Africa. “In all, Tanzania excelled globally in
the 64th position compared to other economies such as Singapore as
best performer, this is serious achievement in World ranking,” he insisted.
It is believed that,
Tanzania takes 515 days to resolve Commercial dispute compared to Singapore which
takes only 150 days. In the regional
groupings Tanzania is the first in the East African region and 3rd
to Sub Saharan Countries respectively. ‘’ We are far better in the region, what
we need is frequently updated data and shared with our stakeholders including
the World Bank ‘’. He emphasized.
The Five year’s Judicial Strategic Plan
gives direction for improvement of Judicial Service through Citizen Centric
Judicial Modernization and Justice Delivery Project aiming at improving the
efficiency and transparency of access to justice services sponsored by the
World Bank.
The project will make
Judiciary enhancing institutional transformational results including informal
traders, small business, large commercial enterprises and banks.
It will make Judiciary more accessible by introducing mobile Courts and
Alternative Dispute Resolutions; will empower vulnerable groups like children
and women.
Furthermore e-justice
will reduce cost, make service more efficient, transparent, strengthening
inspection and performance systems along with introduction of e- complaint for
law and justice sector operations will help the government on war against
corruption.
The 140 billion Tshs project
at last will improve people’s lives by enhancing the local business and
investment environment, increasing transparency and reducing poverty especially
in rural areas.
On the other hand,
Judiciary of Tanzania commends the report but in the future there is room for
improvement as the report has just sited with few courts like Kisutu, the
questionnaires were compiled generally by local litigation lawyers instead of
those regularly practicing in Commercial Court.
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