DODOMA, June 2 -- MINISTRY of Community Development, Gender, Women and Special Groups has coordinated the disbursement of loans worth 1.8tri/- to small-scale traders across the country between July 2025 and April 2026 through commercial banks, as part of government efforts to empower the sector and enhance participation in the national economy.

Minister for Community Development, Gender, Women and Special Groups, Dr Dorothy Gwajima, disclosed the figures in the National Assembly in Dodoma yesterday, while tabling her ministrys 108.02bn/- budget estimates for the 2026/27 financial year.

She said the ministry also provided financial literacy and entrepreneurship training to 60,737 traders during the period under review.

Of the total loan...