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1.
Introduction
1.1
Background Information
The
National Strategies for Sustainable Development (NSSDs) programme is an
effort at looking into the status of various strategies formulated in
the Country after the 1992 Earth Summit in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. The
purpose is to establish the status of the strategies in terms of the content,
approaches used to formulate them as well as the extent of implementation.
It is anticipated that this process would result in developing guidelines
on how Tanzania can formulate and implement better strategies for sustainable
development and how donors can assist Tanzania in this initiative.
This
report includes stakeholders’ contributions which were made during the
workshops held in Mbeya from December 1 to 2nd, 2000 and Arusha
from January 25 to 26th, 2001. The report is divided into seven
sections. Section one which is the introduction is followed by the conceptual
understanding and a presentation of the conditions for planning for sustainable
development in section two and three respectively. Section four presents
the planning framework and section five presents information used in planning.
The relationships between sustainable development and donors is discussed
in section six. Conclusions and recommendations are provided in section
seven.
1.2
Methodology
1.2.1
Study Coverage
This
study was divided into two phases namely, the Status Review and the Dialogues
Process. In carrying out the Status Review, the strategy documents were
collected and reviewed, and different stakeholders were interviewed on
the respective strategies. This phase was completed and the final Status
Review report came out in October 2000.
The
second phase was the Dialogue Process, which was conducted in Mbeya and
Arusha regions. During the process, key stakeholders were involved in
discussing the status of the strategies, how to improve them and how to
strengthen their impact on sustainable development.
1.2.2
The Approach
The
following steps were used in conducting the dialogue process (Fig. 1).
Step 1: Preparation
of Interview Checklist
Step 2: Identifying
of Stakeholders for the Interview/Focus Group Discussion
Step 3: Conducting
Focus Group Discussion
Step 4: Identification
of Workshop Participants
Step 5: Report Writing
Step 6: Stakeholders
Workshop
Step 7: Compilation
of Deliberations
Step 8: Preparation
of the Country Dialogues Report
Step 9: Holding
National Stakeholders’ Workshop
Step 10: Finalization
of the “Country Dialogues Report”
After
the dialogues held in Mbeya and Arusha regions, a National Stakeholders
workshop was organised in Dar es Salaam in February 2001, to synthesize
the collected views.
Fig.
1: The Approach to Conducting the Dialogue Process
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Step
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Preparation
of Interview Checklist
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Step
2:
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Identifying
of stakeholders for the Interview/Focus Group Discussion
Focus
Group Discussions were conducted to stakeholders representing the
following:-
(i)
NGOs
(ii)
Village community
(iii)
Traders/business community
(iv)
Religious organizations
(v) (v) Government officials
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Step
3:
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Conducting Focus Group Discussion
Focus
Group discussions were held with each of the above groups. In each
group men and women were interviewed separately except for government
officials.
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Step
4:
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Identification
of Workshop Participants
From
each focus group, one or two persons were identified and invited
to participate in the workshop in Mbeya and Arusha (Gender considerations
were taken into account).
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Step
5:
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Report
Writing
A
brief report reflecting major issues raised during focus group discussions
was prepared. This report was then used as the basis of discussion
in the respective workshop.
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Step
6:
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Stakeholders
Workshop
During
the workshop, stakeholders (the same persons who were met during
the interviews), were organized into focus groups. In Mbeya the
groups were on the basis of the districts and in Arusha on the basis
of villages. A Workshop Guide was provided to each group to assist
group members to go through the issues and reach consensus in respect
of strengths, weaknesses and recommended solutions. Each group presented
its deliberations in a plenary, followed by discussion.
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Step
7:
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Compilation
of Deliberations
In
each region, the group deliberations and plenary presentations were
compiled into one document.
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Step
8:
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Preparation
of the Country Dialogues Report
The
two documents (Mbeya and Arusha) were then compiled into one document:
Country Dialogues Report, which was used for discussion during
the National Stakeholders’ Workshop held in Dar es Salaam.
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Step
9:
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Holding
National Stakeholders’ Workshop
Participants
to this workshop were identified during the Regional Workshops taking
into consideration the area and gender representation.
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Step
10:
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Finalization
of the “Country Dialogues Report”
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