Tanzania Multi Stakeholder Map - WebNG

• Absence of appropriate Chemicals Policy
• Inadequacies in legislations
• Insufficient human and financial resources
• Lack of information exchange/access at all levels
• Lack of awareness to majority of stakeholders
• Lack of alternatives, innovative solutions and strategies
• Weak infrastructure for management chemicals
• Poor Management of Chemicals and Pesticides to stakeholders
• Low Cooperation, coordination among stakeholders
We have seen also in previous sections that the NSGRP, Vision 2025 and the
MDGs might promote use of pesticide to be able to achieve the goals of the
same. However, with the above challenges if pesticide use is promoted, it may
endanger the human health and the environment and hence increase the poverty
burden to poor communities rather that solving it.
The purpose of this section is to assess the provisions that are contained within
chemicals conventions, and potential for integrating/mainstreaming the same to
achieve both i.e. implementation of chemicals convention and hence protecting
human health and assist in the efforts to eradicate poverty through promotion of
safe use of pesticides, including non-pesticide alternatives.
8.1 Basel Convention
The key objectives of the Basel Convention are:
• To minimize the generation, treat and dispose of hazardous wastes as
close as possible to their source of generation;
• To ensure strict control over the trans-boundary movements of hazardous
wastes and prevention of illegal traffic;
• To prohibit shipments of hazardous wastes to countries lacking the legal,
administrative and technical capacity to manage and dispose of them in
sound manner; and
• To assist developing countries and countries with economies in transition
in management of the hazardous wastes they generate.
Establishing Regional Training and Technology Centres: The overall
objectives for establishing these centres is to strengthen the capacity of
governments of the regions in complying with the technical, legal and institutional
requirements in sound management of hazardous wastes as specified by the
Basel Convention.
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