Tanzania Multi Stakeholder Map - WebNG

this project are aware of this training, whether they will be taking part so as to
maximise the benefits of these two initiatives. The reaction from the organisers
were that they were not aware of the said training, however efforts will be made
to contact the organisers of the training in Zanzibar to solicit for collaboration.
One participant asked what are the objectives of the Ecotoxicological training and
the reaction was that: the objectives are to train stakeholders on the use of
ecotoxicologal monitoring tools to understand and increase awareness of the
communities on the impacts of the pesticides. It was further commented that
Ecotox is a study that enables people to analyse, assess the lifecycle of the
pesticides. A manual is being developed by Greenwich University of Britain, the
participants will be required to assess and comment on the suitability of the
manual for Tanzania use. Further, it was queried that there is equally rampant
misuse of pesticides in urban areas but why the project is not focussing on this
segment of communities. The reaction was that the project will focus on generic
problems and solutions, which will be relevant to all environmental settings. It
was further commended that most of the projects usually focus only on capacity
building, therefore we now have to think about capacity utilisation too.
It was further contributed that it is a sad situation for exemption of using DDT on
assumption that DDT is a silver bullet to fix malaria problems and neglecting the
fact that there are other safe chemicals for malaria control. There are sad
situation in South Africa where DDT spraying was done in poor areas only.
Furthermore, WHO stringent application procedures cannot be met in African
situation meaning that indoor DDT spraying would be more dangerous to human
lives than Malaria itself. It was further noted that there are many alternatives for
malaria control. In addition to that, it was highlighted that DDT targets adult
mosquitoes, sustainable malaria control strategy should focus on killing even
non-adult mosquitoes such as lavaes. It was then contributed that using DDT, we
risk eligibility of exporting our agricultural products to developed countries due to
potential high DDT residue content on agricultural products. Therefore it was
commended that Tanzania applied for exemption and it has not used it at all. The
exemption provide the right to use DDT especially during emergency situations
e.g. during malaria epidemics and when other available and cheap alternatives
fails. The application was necessitated by the fact that alternatives were more
expensive than the DDT. Finally, it was commended that alternatives should be
safe, effective, socially acceptable, available and easily applicable.
It was further queried that, is the project focusing on a specific area of Tanzania
and the reaction was that the project covers the whole country and it can be seen
in this workshop that participants comes from different regions. It was then asked
whether the project have a budget ceiling and which professionals will be
involved and the reaction was that the whole project including other countries has
the total budget of 1.3 m Euros for three years and collaborate with different
professionals from international organisations such as Ecosphere, PAN UK, PAN
Africa, PAN AP etc. therefore the project is well equipped in terms of funds and
6