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MAINSTREAMING OF CHEMICAL CONVENTION IN THE
IMPLEMENTATION OF NATIONAL POVERTY REDUCTION
STRATEGIES
1.0 INTRODUCTION
Jamidu H.Y. Katima
Executive Chairman - AGENDA
According to the Household Budget Survey (HBS) of 2000/01 1 , in Tanzania, the
proportion of the population below the national food poverty line is 18.7% and
that below the national basic needs poverty line is 35.7%. Poverty is high in rural
areas, at about 87% of the poor population, and is highest among households
who depend on agriculture.
As a follow up to the development of the National Vision 2025, 2 in 2000/01-02/03
developed a Poverty Reduction Strategy Paper (PRS(P)) which articulated
measures to be taken to eradicate poverty. The PRS(P) was linked to debt relief
under the enhanced High Indebted Poor Countries (HIPC) initiative. Debt relief
and other resources were mainly channelled into “priority sectors” of education,
health, water, agriculture, rural roads, the judiciary and land. Spending on these
areas was considered to have greater impact on poverty reduction. However, the
resources were not sufficient, even for the “priority sectors” to lead to appreciable
change over the three years (i.e. 2000/01 – 02/03). It was realised that Poverty
is multi-dimensional in nature and the attainment of poverty reduction targets
requires much more resources and the involvement of other sectors and actors.
Therefore a National Strategy for Growth and Reduction of Poverty (NSGRP) 3
was designed in response to address the deficiencies experienced during
implementation of the PRS and thus it adopts the “outcomes-approach” which
counts on the contribution of all sectors towards growth and poverty reduction.
The approach stresses the, cross-sector collaboration and inter-sector linkages
and synergies.
The World Summit on Sustainable Development meeting, which was held in
Johannesburg, South Africa 26 August–4 September 2002, adopted the
Millennium Development Goals 4 , which reinforces the aspirations of the NSGRP.
As such there is a strong linkage between the NSGRP, MDGs and the Vision
1 URT (2001). Household Budget Survey
2 URT (2000). Tanzania Vision 2025
3 URT (2004). National for Growth and Reduction of Poverty
4 http://www.johannesburgsummit.org/html/documents/wehab_papers.html , (accessed 14 June 2005).
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