To underscore this, at the district stakeholder workshop in 2001, Longido District Council (LDC) within Longido District council is one of Councils of Arusha Region since 1st July, 2007.
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The District was born out of splitting the former Monduli
District. Longido is expecting to provide high quality and responsive
services to its district population, which is spread throughout 7,782
square kilometres. The fundamental changes taking place within the
context of the local government reform programme required the district
council to adopt new ways of organizing is activities, people and
resources. The vision for the reform agenda is that; the district
council as an
titution of democratically elected representative
becomes an autonomous organ that will deliver services according to
locally defined needs, though within the national policy framework.
Local government in Tanzania has had a chequered history, which can be
categorized in five faces; pre-independent, in which the emphasis was
placed on economic viability to the detriment of democracy, post
independence to 1965 in which more focus was given to democratizing
local government and expending the network to all district in Tanzania,
1966-1972 during which period local government authorities were
dismantled in order to facilitate a policy which aimed to centralize the
provision of services and distribute equally from the centre, 1972-1983
during which district development councils, wards and villages were
instituted to support centre government, 1984- onwards which saw the
reinstatement of thez present local government in order to encourage
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