November 17, 2008
The (missing) social protection for older people in Tanzania. A comparative study in rural and urban areas.

Tanzania will be affected by a dramatic demographic change in the next decades. It is estimated that the absolute numbers of older persons aged 60 and above will increase from 1.95 millions in 2005 to 7.16 millions in 2050. Social and economic disintegration processes like urbanisation and rural-urban migration coupled with the breakdown of traditional family support networks tend to exclude a high number of older people from social participation and expose them to highly vulnerable living conditions.

This mid-term report provides a summary of the activities of a joint research on the (missing) social protection for older people in Tanzania. The SOC-PRO AGED project received an approval for funding by KEF in April 2008.

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