TANZANIA SUMMARY IN NUMBERS Institution Website Request for information Total score Tanzania Revenue Authority (TRA) 17 19 36 Occupation Safety & Health Authority (OSHA) 7 15 22 Ministry of Finance (MoF) 14 1 15 Ministry of Water and Irrigation (MWI) 15 1 16 National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) 14 16 30 Ministry of Energy and Mineral (MEM) 18 2 20 Ministry of Constitution and Legal Affairs (MOCLA) 12 1 13 National Housing Cooperation (NHC) 16 1 17 RESEARCH CONCLUSIONS It has to be understood that this year’s research collided with the beginning of the Phase Five Government, which is under high pressure and has many ambitious goals. Most government ministries, institutions and agencies are operating at high speed. It was the high expectation of this research that the information requests would have been responded to in a prompt and timely manner, but with some of the institutions, ministries and agencies the opposite has been true. Some of the officers continue operating as business-as-usual. Some of the institutions have responded very quickly and went even further by calling the researcher for more clarification. This year’s study picked the winners of the previous years, together with one new agency: OSHA. As it can be seen in the summary of research findings above, the performances of some of the past winners have dropped significantly. THE MOST SECRETIVE PUBLIC INSTITUTION IN TANZANIA There are four poorly performing institutions with a total score below 20; these are the Ministry of Finance, the Ministry of Water and Irrigation, the Ministry of Constitution and Legal Affairs and the National Housing Cooperation. With the lowest score among the public institutions surveyed, the Most Secretive Public Institution in Tanzania in 2016 is the Ministry of Constitution and Legal Affairs. THE MOST OPEN PUBLIC INSTITUTION IN TANZANIA TRA scored the highest out of all the public institutions surveyed. The institution’s swift response to the questions sent to them and the fact that they invited the researcher for an interview shows their readiness to share information with the public. The answers they provided were very detailed. This is the only institution which received 90 per cent of the possible score for the survey. Thus the Most Open Public Institution in Tanzania in 2016 is the Tanzania Revenue Authority. 87