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The sister industry programme in Tanzania and the Zambian alternative
01.06.1990
Most small enterprise assistance programmes fail, and many indeed do not even try, to mobilize the experience of the donor country's small enterprise sector. The Swedish sister industry programme in Tanzania (SIP) and the similar more recent programme in Zambia which evolved from the Tanzanian experience, represent attempts to do this.The objective of this paper is to describe the Tanzanian SIP, focusing in particular on the 'network' of organizational roles and linkages, to present some data as to the results, to identify some of the difficulties and shortcomings of the Tanzanian programme and to describe the new approach which has recently been adopted in Zambia, building on the fourteen years of SIP experience in Tanzania.