The President’s office, Planning commission has engaged the University of Dar es salaam through the Department of Economics to organize consultative activities on Post 2015 Development Agenda. The EfDT staffs are among the key resource persons in conducting these consultation dialogues.
The President’s office, Planning commission has engaged the University of Dar es salaam through the Department of Economics to organize consultative activities on Post 2015 Development Agenda. The EfDT staffs are among the key resource persons in conducting these consultation dialogues.
It has being learned that the background begin in the 1990s and the first decade of the new millennium, the world has been preoccupied mainly with twin challenges of huge unmet human needs and growing environmental degradation. The worsening environmental degradation is laid at the door of economic growth, population growth, and growing per-capita resource consumption; as well, poverty still haunts the globe, with about two billion people living on less than two dollars per day, many of them lacking even basic sanitation or clean drinking water. It is these two challenges that are at the core of the post-2015 development agenda.
Currently, there is an ongoing process of consultations globally, nationally and locally, under the auspices of the United Nations (UN), to inform the post-2015 development agenda. The United Nations is consensually accepted as the most inclusive and comprehensive platform for putting a global development agenda together and for bringing to the table the views of all governments and a range of other stakeholders, including civil society, the private sector, academia and research institutes, philanthropic foundations, and international institutions.
Much as the consultations are stirred by the UN for an all inclusive global agenda, it is crucial for stakeholders in Tanzania to focus in the dialogue issues of a vision of the future world they want to live in. Thus, the Government of the United Republic of Tanzania and the Revolutionary Government of Zanzibar and other stakeholders view the national dialogue process on the post-2015 Global Development Agenda as an opportunity to assess the implementation of the Millennium Development Goals in terms of achievements recorded and challenges faced and to use the assessment as a building block for a vision and targets beyond 2015. Hence, the national consultations will be useful in two ways. First, they will stimulate and contribute to the global discussions among Tanzanians, and garner inputs and ideas for a shared global vision of “The Future We All Want”. As well, they will serve to establish how Tanzania wants to use this process and its results for its development planning.
This note highlights on some aspects of the ongoing processes at global and national levels and their usefulness for informing the post-2015 agenda, including with respect to Tanzania’s Long Term-Perspective Plan and MKUZA III. The aspects include the evolution of the consultations; the structure of consultations; and the expected output from the consultations.
The consultations are aimed at building coalition of partners to engage people in developing and developed countries, governments, non-governmental and grassroots organizations, the private sector, trade unions and workers, and the academic community. In this course the groups were organized in category as follows:
- Category one: participants for the Post 2015 Development Agenda Consultative Workshop that hold from 23rd to 25th November 2012 at the Stella Marie Hotel in Bagamoyo and from 28th to 30th at Larsh Garden Arusha. This workshop was specific for members of staff of higher learning and research institutions.
- Category two: participants for the Post 2015 Development Agenda Consultative Workshop that was held from 30th November to 2nd December 2012 at the Stella Maris Hotel in Bagamoyo. This workshop was specific for members from the private sector and its related umbrella organizations.
- Category three: participants for the Post 2015 Development Agenda Consultative Workshop that was held from 14th to 16th December 2012 at the Stella Maris Hotel in Bagamoyo. This workshop is specific for members of staff from the government and line ministries.