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5.1 What Might be Done to Reduce the Bottlenecks?
Implementing the NSGRP, Vision 2025 and Millenium Development Goals can
promote the sound management of chemicals/pesticides if the requirements of
the same are integrated and mainstreamed in national action plan for economic
development. Linking the MDGs with chemical safety plans, pesticides in
particular, can contribute to mainstreaming chemical safety with overall national
priorities, such as national poverty reduction strategies or national sustainable
development strategies.
5.2 Status of NSGRP, Vision 2025 and MDGs Implementation in Tanzania
While there seems to be an obvious linkage between NSGRP, Vision 2025 and
the MDGs, the consultations that were made during the development of NSGRP,
revealed the linkages between key international and national developmental
initiatives and aspirations as espoused in Tanzania’s Vision 2025, the Medium
Term Plan (MTP) for Growth and Poverty Reduction, the PRS Review and the
Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), were very weak and hence they do not
reinforce each other. The main conclusion was that poverty reduction had to
receive renewed and wider interest with a shift of focus from the initial “priority
sector approach” to all sectors contributing to poverty reduction outcomes.
The NSGRP, therefore, which is expected to last for 5 years, i.e. from 2005/06 to
2009/10. The end point of this strategy coincides with the National Poverty
Eradication Strategy (NPES)’s 2010 poverty reduction targets; it is two thirds of
the way towards the MDGs (2015) and 15 years towards 2025 targets of the
National Development Vision 2025. These milestones may be used to gage the
achievement of the integrated approach.
However, chemical safety is not directly seen to be a major component or target
to assess attainment of the goals. It is repeated in world fora, that donors are not
providing financial assistance for chemical safety because this is not seen as a
priority to recipient countries. This is attributed to the fact that chemicals safety is
not integrated in requests for development assistance.
5.2.1 Link to NSGRP, Vision 2025 and MDGs as part of general
“mainstreaming”
Typically, donors do not consider chemical management issues as stand-alone
issues, but take them into account as integral parts of development assistance
programmes and projects, considering inter alia economical, ecological, cultural
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