CSO Convenes To Deliberate On Tanzania’s Stride Towards SADC’s Vision 2050

 

By Valentine Oforo, Dodoma

DIFFERENT Civil Society Organization (CSO) convened in Dodoma Capital City to deliberate over how the country is stepping up measures to help realise the set Southern African Development Community (SADC) Economic Vision 2050.

Among others, the set vision is to have all SADC Member States to a peaceful, inclusive, competitive, middle- to high-income industrialised region, whereby all citizens enjoy sustainable economic well-being, justice, and freedom by 2050.

Briefing reporters on the sideline of the three-day forum, ActionAid Tanzania Country Director, Bavon Christopher said they have decided to convene so as to have ample time to discuss, evaluate and share key inputs on how the country was doing.

He added, the forum was also to provide a useful podium to allow the participants to evaluate how the government was managing to adopt and use the SADC’s Regional Indicative Strategic Development Plan (RISDP) 2020-2030.

“The plan, (RISDP 2020-2030) majors on various key issues such as the need to improve industrial growth, agriculture, infrastractures, human rights, as well as efforts to combat effects of climate change,” he expressed.

He expressed that realisation of SADC 2050 vision was to a greater extent banking on the actions and measures to be taken by the governments, private sector and the civil society, and individuals through short- and medium-term strategic plans.

“That’s why we, SCO, for our part have decided to meet as part to fulfil our major obligation to assure Tanzania (the government) is setting and implementing friendly measures to help transform all key economic facets thus, enabling the country to sail through the needed economic status by 2050,” he observed.

The meeting attracted representatives from different civil society organisations across the country, representatives from the ministry foreign affairs and east african cooperation, and the lawmakers from SADC.

SADC Member States include Angola, Botswana, the Union of Comoros, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Eswatini, Lesotho, Madagascar, Malawi, Mauritius, Mozambique, Namibia, Seychelles, South Africa, United Republic of Tanzania, Zambia, and Zimbabwe.