SoC04 My dear people we must think differently and act collectively

[Mamshungulii]

Our long-term vision for Tanzania by 2050 is to be the best place to live, learn, work, and do business. We want our businesses, our public services, the private sector and Government to have worked together to achieve the goals that are set out in the proposed and ground-breaking Future Generations.

We will have thought more about the long term, worked better together, taken early action and engaged with citizens on this journey. This will mean people in Tanzania are healthier and happier and more multilingual; our economy is prosperous and our environment is resilient. This will help improve the well-being of Tanzania over the long term by taking a sustainable development path.

Today, Tanzania faces a number of complex challenges. Many of these are a legacy from the past, but it is important that this generation does not leave them as challenges for the next. We need to create sustainable, quality jobs and get the right economic growth to lift people out of poverty. We need to make our environment and our communities more resilient to the major environmental problems we face, including addressing declining biodiversity. We need people to be healthy, to achieve their potential and to make Tanzania more equal society. We need to reduce our consumption of natural resources and act to tackle the causes and consequences of climate change.

We must think differently and we must act collectively. The UN Summit of the Future presents a critical opportunity to rethink local, national and global governance to meet the challenges of the 21st Century and reach our collective desired futures. This opportunity must be met with action. With the aim of supporting the implementation of an ambitious Declaration for Future Generations, a community of leaders and early adopters – currently innovating and practising long-term governance – from around the world as part of a collective thought process to put their experiences at the service of this process. Taking the ‘Wales Protocol for Future Generations’, as a reference document and pragmatic guide aimed at governments and stakeholders interested in promoting and implementing the Declaration for Future Generations.

This writing acts like a collective plea, rich with global leading-edge wisdom, for the importance of long-term governance to be recognised and acted on. It provides a series of practical recommendations so that States, citizens and the United Nations can implement the Pact for the Future in a fair manner, taking into account intergenerational solidarity.

We are not alone in taking up this challenge. Over the past two years there has been a global conversation, facilitated by the United Nations, with people the world over to seek their views on a set of international Sustainable Development Goals which build on the successes of the Millennium Development Goals. In Tanzania too, we need to build a consensus around the shared goals which are the most important to all of us, including our children and grandchildren.

Putting these sustainable development goals into law will set a course for public services in Tanzania to pull together towards a healthier and more prosperous country, by balancing the economy, the environment and society. To help achieve these shared goals, it is a propose to make it the law that named public service organisations must show how they contribute effectively to the achievement of the goals through the objectives that they set and the actions that they take. transformation will only be possible if action is taken across all sectors and governments. We require a holistic approach where long-term thinking is the norm, and collaboration and integration of the world’s problems are identified as the key to enhancing resilience and leaving no one behind.

Global cooperation is central to delivering on collective hopes for the future, while protecting the values and ideals of current and future generations. The Future we want is a critical opportunity to ensure future global governance is fit for the future, setting an example and supporting nations.

Tanzania and other nations also have a critical role to play as part of their commitment to signing up to advocate for and ensure the multilateral agenda is effective, while ensuring that their governance systems — from the national to local level — are fit for the future. This requires action at three levels: ensuring the UN and global institutions are effective and building capability; enabling regional bodies to collectively respond and set an agenda for change; and working to ensure that space is created for powerful future generations whose agenda is bold, inclusive and safeguards the future.

1. Creating departments that Embedding future generations and long-term thinking in government while having a mandate to ensure future generations and the future is at the heart of policy and decision making.

2. Ensuring evaluation and resource allocation is coordinated through 'whole of government' approaches that break down silos, and ensure intergenerational fairness and long-term thinking is embedded in the design, implementation, and evaluation of public policy as well as the disbursement of resources.

Meaningful steps need to be taken to build appropriate governance structures that support long-term policy and decision making that is intergenerationally fair. This will involve innovating across three fronts: building the technical capability of government, public services and officials; stewarding and facilitating anticipatory citizen participatory exchanges; and supporting leadership to follow through and act in the interests of future as well as current generations. This also requires working with politicians and parliaments of all kinds, and maintaining fair and constructive scrutiny. Nationally, regionally and locally, governments have the opportunity to utilise the Pact for the Future and Declaration of Future Generations to catalyse and inspire change.

For instance, the way JAMII FORUM and other social medias networks are promoting Sustainable development goals.

 

[Mchoraji Cyper255]

Today, Tanzania faces a number of complex challenges. Many of these are a legacy from the past, but it is important that this generation does not leave them as challenges for the next. We need to create sustainable, quality jobs and get the right economic growth to lift people out of poverty. We need to make our environment and our communities more resilient to the major environmental problems we face, including addressing declining biodiversity. We need people to be healthy, to achieve their potential and to make Tanzania more equal society. We need to reduce our consumption of natural resources and act to tackle the causes and consequences of climate change.

 

[Mchoraji Cyper255]

Today, Tanzania faces a number of complex challenges. Many of these are a legacy from the past, but it is important that this generation does not leave them as challenges for the next. We need to create sustainable, quality jobs and get the right economic growth to lift people out of poverty. We need to make our environment and our communities more resilient to the major environmental problems we face, including addressing declining biodiversity. We need people to be healthy, to achieve their potential and to make Tanzania more equal society. We need to reduce our consumption of natural resources and act to tackle the causes and consequences of climate change.

 

[mkorea]

I think we must start with mind set of citizens, the projection of long term plan of any country must be and should be citizens centred
As matter of fact our politians don't want this, that's why rubbish and foolishness are more emphasized