INSTITUTE OF RURAL DEVELOPMENT PLANNING (TANZANIA)

INSTITUTE OF RURAL DEVELOPMENT PLANNING (TANZANIA)
Name of Campus:	Institute of Rural Development Planning Lake Zone Centre
Zonal Director:	Dr Frank George Haule Hawassi
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Other Contacts:	Dr F.G.H. Hawassi (+255754366952) Bonomax Mbasa (Head of Academic Affairs - IRDPLZC): email: This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it / This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it ; tel: (+255757528208) Constantine C. Lifuliro (Rector): email: This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it ; tel: (+255262302147) Aisia Lawuo (Head of Administrative Affairs): email: This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it ; tel: (+255752160009 or +255718282977)
Postal Address:	P.O. Box 11957, MWANZA CITY, Tanzania
Website:	www.irdp.ac.tz
Telephone and Fax:	+255 285 560 994/5
Nature of Programme (currently offered):	Certificate Programme in Rural Development Planning
Future Programmes:	Diploma in Development Planning Bachelors degree: Regional Development Planning Bachelors degree: Development Finance and Investment Planning Bachelors Degree: Environmental Planning and Management Bachelors Degree: Population and Development Planning Postgraduate Diploma in Regional Planning Postgraduate Diploma in Poject Planning and Management Postgraduate Diploma in Governance and Sustainable Development Postgraduate Diploma in Environmental Planning
Number of Staff:	6 academic staff members; 7 supporting staff
Number of Certificate students (2011/2012):	320
Institutional Biography:	The Institute of Rural Development Planning (IRDP) was officially established by the Act of Parliament No.8 of 1980 as a body corporate and an important national centre for providing training, research and consultancy services in the field of rural development planning. Over 30 years, IRDP has grown in terms of academic programmes offering awards of certificate, diplomas, degrees at undergraduate and post graduate levels; short course programmes, research and consultancy services. All these activities take place at its main campus allocated in Dodoma region, Tanzania. Based on the aforesaid and high demand for professional planners at various spatial levels in Tanzania, IRDP Governing Council at its 93rd sitting, endorsed establishment of Institute of Rural Development Planning Lake Zone Training Centre in Mwanza city. Following this decision, IRDP management made modest arrangement to start operations of IRDP-LZC on 25th September, 2011. The Centre has been established to extend and compliment efforts of contributing to the vision and mission of the Institute of Rural Development Planning. Principally, it is a typical component of the IRDP main campus located in Dodoma region. In this case, the centre is organizationally respond to the systems, strategies, style of management, organization culture, staff (performance and motivation) and structures from the main campus.