Matto, Joyce Leonard2020-06-122020-06-121998Matto, J.L (1998) The university of Dar es Salaam faculty of arts and social sciences traditional forms of social security in Tanzania (Sumbawanga District), Master dissertation, University of Dar es Salaam. Dar es Salaam.http://41.86.178.5:8080/xmlui/handle/123456789/12372Available in print form, East Africana Collection, Dr. Wilbert Chagula Library, Class mark (THS EAF HD7091.T3M3)This study deals with the traditional forms of social security system in Tanzania. The research was carried out in Chipu village, Sumbawanga District between July-September, 1993. The study is presented in eight chapters. Chapter one provides background information about the problem under discussion and the objectives of the study. Chapter two reviews available literature on traditional social security, types of traditional social systems, organization of indigenous traditional institutions and effectiveness of traditional security institutions in general. Chapter three discusses methodological procedures and shows the difficulty in collecting the relevant information from the Chipu villagers. Chapter four presents an overview of pre-colonial social security system. The chapter discusses issues on political and economic changes, and on development of social security in Tanzania, that is, types of traditional social security and principles of traditional social security systems. Lastly it discusses the nature and role of traditional social security institutions. Chapter five discusses Tanzania Social security during colonial period. This chapter discusses the traditional forms of social security systems during German and British period. Chapter seven discusses the crisis, adjustment policies and traditional social security systems. The chapter discusses the findings of the impact of the crisis, adjustment policies in Chipu village including the negative and positive impacts, the most affected groups including the elderly and the children. It also discusses the existence, effectiveness of traditional social security institutions. The final chapter is conclusions and recommendations.enTraditionalSciencesThesis