2050 Vision preps pick momentum
GOVERNMENT has started preparations for the National Development Vision 2050 aimed at making the country attain the upper middle-economy.
Making the revelation at Planning Conference in Dar es Salaam, on Monday attended by planners from public institutions, the private sector, national and international organisations, the Commissioner of National Planning of the Ministry of Finance and Planning, Dr Mursali Milanzi, said the new vision will guide the progress towards achieving the goal.
He further said in the current vision, there are priorities that will be implemented according to the available resources in the country also towards the goal.
Elaborating, Dr Milanzi noted that the vision has been implemented through the National Development Plan in three phases, adding that the current phase is the third and last one that will be completed in 2025.
“A lot of achievements have been reached in the current vision that ends in 2025 and again, we have started preparations early enough with the aim of taking the country to the upper middle economy. The current vision has brought the country to the lower middle economy before the end of five years,” he pointed out.
Earlier, Deputy Permanent Secretary in the Ministry of Finance and Planning (Economic Management and Policies), Mr Lawrence Mafuru said the country is in the third plan which started 2020/21- 2025/26 and completes the vision of 2025.
Mr Mafuru said the beginning of the preparation for the new vision was aimed at setting the continuity of the country’s new vision for the next 25 years, because the distance of one generation to another is 25 years, hence, the vision will give an image of the country’s development in that period.
He insisted that the collaborative vision will include the views of all stakeholders, so that once it will be completed, it will carry a real picture and image to solve various challenges, which concern all members of the society.
He further added that the social and economic changes for the next generation and plans by looking at things happening inside and outside the country, are the most powerful for the nation of tomorrow
“We must plan while knowing things that are outside our nation…it is clear that things that happen outside our nation affect us to a great extent and now we have become part of the world and in any case, we cannot ignore it,” Mr Mafuru added
Moreover, he said it is time to have a few priorities that can be implemented according to the available resources and avoid having plans with many priorities, whose results take a long time or will not be implemented due to a lack of funds.
On his part, an Economist Professor Samuel Wangwe, said that in terms of economic growth, the growth of social development must reflect the growth of also economic development.
Equally, Professor Wangwe urged the vision planners to be careful and creative in identifying the challenges of the work area.
“The planners must realise that there is no economic development without social development, everything must go hand in hand and if you leave one behind there will be no progress.
“You should be creative in planning your priorities considering that economic development must go hand in hand with social development,” Prof Wangwe insisted.
