TICGL is the firm governments, investors, and development partners turn to when starting a business, investing, or launching a project in Tanzania has to survive real scrutiny. We deliver bankable feasibility studies and due diligence, get you registered and operating on the ground — permits included — and build the market intelligence that underpins all of it, on the same research discipline behind our affiliate institute, TERI.
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Bankable studies built to withstand a lender, a co-investor, or a PPP Centre review — on the first pass.
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Financial, legal, commercial, and counterparty checks before an acquisition, joint venture, or new partner.
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Company registration, licences, work and residence permits — run as parallel workstreams, not a queue.
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A named data architecture — BoT, NBS, TRA, TIC, CMSA, World Bank, IMF — behind every deliverable.
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TERI (Tanzania Economic Research Institute) is our affiliate research institute, publishing independent, evidence-first research on Tanzania's economy for investors and businesses alike.
We manage company registration, sector licences, TIC's Certificate of Incentives, and work/residence permits as parallel workstreams. See Market Entry & Setup →
Typically a work permit from the Labour Commissioner and a residence permit from Immigration, alongside TIC registration where the investment qualifies.
Yes — including Boko Dawasa Bus Terminal, Msasani Fish Market, Arusha SWM, and Muhimbili National Hospital. See Feasibility Studies →
Yes — financial, legal, commercial, operational, counterparty, and land/ESG due diligence. See Due Diligence →
We don't write feasibility studies to justify a decision that's already been made. We build them to withstand a lender's underwriting committee, a co-investor's due diligence, and a PPP Centre review — on the first pass.
Size, growth, and structure of real demand for the proposed investment.
Whether the project can physically and operationally be delivered as designed.
NPV, IRR, WACC, payback period, sensitivity and scenario analysis.
Compliance with sector licensing and the PPP Act (Cap. 103, GN No. 37/2020).
EIA screening, resettlement and community-impact safeguards.
Risk register, probability/impact matrix, mitigation and contingency planning.
We've delivered Full Feasibility Studies for the Boko Dawasa Bus Terminal PPP (Kinondoni), the Msasani Fish Market PPP redevelopment (Kinondoni), Arusha City Council's solid waste management PPP, and the Muhimbili National Hospital private-wing PPP (USD 19.9M, 33-year BOT) — plus a feasibility study on establishing reinsurance operations in Tanzania. This isn't a capability we claim. It's a track record you can check.
Before capital moves — an acquisition, a joint venture, a new local partner, or an equity stake in an existing business — TICGL verifies what's actually there: the numbers, the paperwork, the counterparty, and the risk a rushed deal would miss.
Verification of financial statements, cash flow, outstanding debt obligations, and tax compliance history.
Corporate registration status, licences held, litigation history, and existing contractual obligations.
Market position, customer concentration, and exposure to competitive or regulatory shifts.
Asset condition, operational capacity, and dependency on specific suppliers or infrastructure.
Beneficial ownership verification, sanctions and PEP screening, and reputational checks on partners and management.
Environmental liabilities, resettlement or social history, and land tenure and title-chain verification.
Due diligence and feasibility answer different questions: a feasibility study asks whether a new project should go ahead; due diligence asks whether an existing business, asset, or partner is what it claims to be. When a client is evaluating an acquisition or joint venture rather than building from scratch, TICGL frequently runs both as parallel workstreams, drawing on the same sector expertise and data architecture behind our feasibility and market research work.
Registration, licensing, permits, and go-to-market strategy move at the same time, not one after another — because sequencing them is the single biggest reason business establishment in Tanzania takes longer than it should.
Company registration and incorporation (BRELA), TIN registration, and every sector-specific permit or licence your business requires.
Local partner and supplier identification, office or site acquisition, and banking and financial setup support.
An entry strategy built for your sector and entry mode — subsidiary, joint venture, representative office, or distributorship.
Cultural orientation and business etiquette guidance built into onboarding from day one, not learned by trial and error.
Establishing or investing in a business in Tanzania as a foreign national means clearing several permit tracks — often in parallel with each other and with company registration. TICGL manages this end to end, so you're not learning the system while you're trying to operate in it.
Registration with the Tanzania Investment Centre (TIC) for qualifying projects, unlocking investor incentives and a facilitated route for work and residence permit applications.
Work permit applications for business owners and investors, and for foreign employees whose skills are not readily available in the local labour market — submitted to the Labour Commissioner before entry into Tanzania.
Residence permit applications through the Immigration Department — covering investors and business owners, employed staff, and dependants — including TIC's facilitated online window for registered investors.
Sector-specific operating licences (financial services, health, manufacturing, and more), NEMC environmental approvals where required, and the local government business licence for your operating location.
Before any workstream begins, TICGL works through entry-mode selection with the client — wholly-owned subsidiary, joint venture, representative office, or agency/distributorship — weighing capital commitment, control, local-partner value, and regulatory sensitivity for the specific sector. This choice determines which permit track and which workstream carries the most risk, and therefore the most attention.
Every market research deliverable draws on the same standing data architecture that feeds TERI's published research — not a survey commissioned once and forgotten.
Structured stakeholder interviews, consumer/business surveys, site visits, and direct consultation with regulators and sector associations.
Bank of Tanzania (BoT), National Bureau of Statistics (NBS), Tanzania Revenue Authority (TRA), Tanzania Investment Centre (TIC), Capital Markets and Securities Authority (CMSA), World Bank Open Data/IDA, and IMF Article IV reports.
TERI convenes fellows across 8 standing research pillars who argue draft findings through structured critique before anything carries the institute's name. Every TICGL market research deliverable is held to that same standard. Visit TERI →
Whichever of the four areas above an engagement starts from, it moves through the same six disciplined stages — every time.
We understand your objectives, constraints, and market context before we scope the mandate.
We collect primary and secondary data from authoritative national and international sources.
Econometric modelling, ARIMA forecasting, scenario and risk analysis.
Customised strategies, business plans, and recommendations you can act on.
Reports, policy briefs, and dialogue events with specific, implementable recommendations.
Hands-on support through execution, regulatory navigation, and ongoing monitoring.
The same methodology is applied across eight priority sectors — matching TERI's eight standing research pillars.
Value chains, productivity, food security, rural finance
SME support, export manufacturing, SEZ policy
Power reform, renewables, PPP financing, mining
Fintech, digital payments, ICT policy, e-commerce
Urban planning, housing finance, PPP pipelines
Health financing, universal coverage, facility planning
Banking, capital markets, pensions & insurance, DFIs
Tourism recovery, hospitality investment, MICE
Every recommendation is powered by original, peer-quality research — the same discipline that underpins TERI's published work. We don't hand out templated advice.
Years of in-country research and advisory work, including direct engagement with the PPP Centre (PPPC), Bank of Tanzania, and TIC — depth that can't be improvised.
Our analysis is objective and editorially independent, with no commercial conflict of interest embedded in our conclusions. Ever.
Every engagement connects to Tanzania's FYDP IV (2026/27–2030/31) and Dira 2050 agenda — so your project moves with the country's direction, not against it.
"A feasibility study is only as bankable as the research behind it. Due diligence only protects you if it looks past the pitch deck. Market entry only works if it's planned as parallel workstreams, not a queue. That is the standard we hold every engagement to."
— Tanzania Investment and Consultant Group Ltd (TICGL)
TERI (Tanzania Economic Research Institute) is TICGL's affiliate research institute — where the same evidence-first discipline behind every client engagement is applied to publishing independent research on Tanzania's economy, open to investors, businesses and the public.
TERI's published research — on macroeconomics, sectors, and policy — gives investors and businesses a free, credible read on Tanzania's economy, independent of any single client mandate.
Fellows across 8 standing research pillars argue draft findings through structured critique before anything is published — the same rigour that feeds every TICGL feasibility study and market research deliverable.
TICGL is the advisory practice — feasibility studies, due diligence, market entry, and client-commissioned research. TERI is the research institute publishing independently on Tanzania's economy. Different audiences, same data architecture and analytical standard.
Whether it's a feasibility study, due diligence, business establishment in Tanzania, or a market research question — reach out and we'll put the right specialist on it.
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