The policy is now out as a draft stage. This is a very important policy for Tanzania because at the moment almost 50% of our power (UMEME) comes from natural gas, more than 30 industries use this gas as a source of power for production hence substitution to TANESCO hydropower and there are many more plans on how to use these huge discovered resources in our country in future. These include: use of natural gas for running cars, domestic cooking to replace environmental unfriendly sources such as mkaa and Kuni (charcoal and firewood), industrial use etc.

The draft policy document has been distributed in various media for us to comment and provide suggestions to our government. As forum members lets discuss and advise our government appropriately. Let us do it and not wait for complaining in future as the policy is very vital for the current and future generations. As the minister responsible for the natural gas put it “natural gas resources belongs to the people of Tanzania and must be managed in a way that benefit the entire Tanzanian society”.

In discussing this draft policy the following issues could guide us:

• I. How does the draft policy meet the current and future needs of the nation?
• II. One key area in the policy is the regulation aspect. How should the sector be regulated (section 5.1.3)
• III. What capacity areas need to be worked on, and therefore be included in the policy statements?
• IV. What else need to be included in this policy? 

To download the draft natural policy click the following link: www.tzonline.org/TheTanzaniaNaturalGasPolicDraft.pdf 

I completely concur with Joseph Paul. I did had that point in mind but somehow got off hand. Yes!! hypocritical politics and corruption by the ruling class and some strategically positioned professionals have let us down. Politicians and their lot taking advantage of the majority of population who are poor and semi to illiterate promising the impossible just to get voted in. The former hardly had the power to get them accountable. I hope this is going to change in the near future as today's Tanzanians are not likely to be fooled about by cheap politics anymore. Thank God for the contribution of Communication Information Technology (CIT) TV, Radio and the handset though tinny but mighty in providing instant information.to semi-urban and some rural population who would otherwise be left out on the national news and development processes.

Thank you Paul for your comment.

Regards,

Eutropia Stanislaus Mwasha

Wanaofaidika wanaomba wajinga tulio wengi tuendelee kulala ili wao wamalize raslimali za nchi yetu kwani wajinga ndio waliwao - nasi tunaliwa. We need concerted action oriented actions.

Sincerely

Bariki K. Kaale

an emphatic social agenda constructed on ethical regulatory framework free from denial and cover-up syndromes. The Nation leadership ought to be responsible and accountable to the people with just laws and fare development programs in the use of the wealth of this nation. There ought to be no room for BIGOTRY in our new Constitution but democracy, human rights and the rule of law should be the praxis of politics in the new development agenda.

Joseph Ibreck.

My contribution towards the above topic in relation to "What strategies and interventions should be employed to unleash the growth potentials in Tanzania?" I have the following views.

Strategy I. Review Education Policy: Have in place a comprehensive and inclusive education policy. An educated population has the capacity to understand, analyze and participating effectively in the various development challenges and processes. The current education policy needs to be reexamined in many aspects such as the quality of education, the educational infrastructure, inclusiveness of the different stakeholders and their needs to match the domestic, regional and extra regional development agendas and arenas.

Strategy 2. Increase Investment in Agriculture and Coordination with other key sectors: Agriculture remains the core of the economy even at the dismal level of investment. The potential of this sector is huge regarding available arable land, irrigation potential, livestock resource, fresh water and marine resources, a substantial resilient high number of producers (farmers), local professionals and technical experts, locally developed technology etc. However, the sector cannot make progress on solitary basis. It needs other sectors to edify it. These include sectors such as infrastructure, transport, communication, trade and commerce, health, financial, health and the resource sound private sector.

Strategy 3. Re-access the Natural Resources utilization: The wealth of abundant natural resources need to be better utilized to reduce poverty. The minerals, natural gas, forests land, water, marine resources are yet to be shared more equitably such that they touch more if not all citizens. The existing general dissatisfaction on the mishandling of these resources to the detriment of national development needs to be addressed. A more transparent accountable and stakeholder involvement approach notably the local communities is likely to reduce the existing discrepancies.

Strategy 4. Improve and develop infrastructure: The country has profound established infrastructure that has been inefficiently operated. The crippling performance of the railways, harbor, air system and the complacency towards furthering their development needs to be reversed. Efficient movement of people and goods and services is highly dependable on effective and efficient operating infrastructure. Very important too is infrastructure that relates to food storage and preservation should be in place as this is vital if food security is to be achieve.

Strategy 5. Develop Reliable Energy: Energy is critical for any nation to develop. there is no way progress in development can be achieved without reliable energy in place. Energy impacts on all sectors. Resources to generate energy in Tanzania are numerous such as water, solar, geothermal, wind, bio-fuels from plants and livestock. To-date, water is by large the source of energy generation and yet not fully utilized. There is need to explore into other sources in order to augment the prevailing deficiency.

Strategy 6. Increase trade and commerce opportunities: Trade and commercial activities should be given impetus at the domestic, regional (East African Community, Comesa, SADC), inter Africa and other developing countries. The conventional trade partners Europe, are in economic crisis and besides, the terms of trade are too stringent, over protective and restrictive.

Strategy 7. Expand and improve communication: Efficient communication has profound impact on development. The reception of reliable timely information paves way to making informed decisions by stakeholders and thus impact positively on the overall national development agenda.

For today I end here expecting to make my next contribution on the second question on "What are the growth drivers in the country?" sometime soon.

Till then warm Regards,

Eutropia Stanislaus Mwasha

Development administration denotes activities of government that

foster economic growth, strengthen human and organizational capabilities, and

promote equality among citizens in the distribution of opportunities, income,

and power (Esman, 1991, 1974: 3). Experience in Africa and other developing

countries, however, indicates that success in the execution of development programs

has often been held back. From the above text one gets a lesson that Tanzania is held back to development due to over centralization. The people don't candidly own the agenda for development as its a top-bottom approach. However, who argues against the notion that even the national leaders and administrators receive policies crafted in Washington and elsewhere in the metropolis and institute them without adaptation for fear of losing an opportunity to aid. Hence, growth is obstricated with these unplanned policy shifts and priorities which eventually do more harm than good in development of welfare to ordinary people in Tanzania. Whose agenda is a millennium development goal? Is the unleashement talked about going to be extracted from which basket of funds? Tanzania, in the context of today we should rethink the way of indegenization of our development but the aspirations of developed countries model both for production and distribution does not function. The views of one writer,that Africa`s post Independence has seen a replacement of colonial governors with colonial ambassadors makes sense in Today`s Tanzania. Distributive justice in the given ecology of public administration and social systems of family cronies at the expense of national developement is not cconducive for the poor to take off.

I at times want to cry.

I used to work at NDC abd then at NCI. At the NDC the liganga Iron and Steel and Mchuchuma Coal projects were being pushed by a Hungarian Metallurgical Engineer Mr Zigovitch then came our own Mr Mwakisopile Russian Trained Metallurgical Engineer next came my good friend The Late Mr Njari ex STAMICO where he was the chief Geologist. At STAMICO Mr Njari came up with the article Tanzania's Golden Future that was after essay result of exploratory drilling of the Biyankulu showed a n ore content of about 25 grammes per tonne of ore the exploratory drilling had been done by another friend Mr Fletcher Msuya an Australian Trained Geologist. We were exited as South African ores contain a max of about 5 grammes per tonne and they are deep up to 3 kilometers making mining very expensive Tz's are almost surface there fore very profitable. However we are surprised to learn that the Tz Gov gets just about 7% of the sales of Tz's gold. It is shocking. Further, I told and convinced the late Njari that the best way to start the Coal project going is through Power generation namerly foring of pulverised coal that would have looked after the question of the coal being highly bituminous and as such liable to cake the fire tubes in conventional firing. We at NCI THROUGH mR aLMASI HELPED the Late Njari to get sponsership for the project which has proven to be viable and profitable, that was way back in the late 198s. We are still wondering what is happening to TZ the Chuchuma power project has not being implemented and that would have long solved the power problem that is being expirenced in Tz secondly there is a. I think people have to be very careful about this Neo Liberal situation that has been forced on African countries. Chile, Brazil Argentina are going back to very prominant State participation in the mining sector. Tanzania shoud do the same there is no way that Anglo can make all those profits and be given Tax holidays to revcoup their investment those mines although they are high in gold content have a life time of just 10-15 years and it will be too late when those guys atart paying Tax. As it is the books of account are very opaque as such nobody really knows how much the investment cost are and what are the profits.

Watanzania msikubali kuibiwa Tz has the human resource to do the job as such get on with it. Nationalise and move on.

Izak Khomo

South Africa

Chemical Engineer NDC/NCI

I at times want to cry.

I used to work at NDC abd then at NCI. At the NDC the liganga Iron and Steel and Mchuchuma Coal projects were being pushed by a Hungarian Metallurgical Engineer Mr Zigovitch then came our own Mr Mwakisopile Russian Trained Metallurgical Engineer next came my good friend The Late Mr Njari ex STAMICO where he was the chief Geologist. At STAMICO Mr Njari came up with the article Tanzania's Golden Future that was after essay result of exploratory drilling of the Biyankulu showed a n ore content of about 25 grammes per tonne of ore the exploratory drilling had been done by another friend Mr Fletcher Msuya an Australian Trained Geologist. We were exited as South African ores contain a max of about 5 grammes per tonne and they are deep up to 3 kilometers making mining very expensive Tz's are almost surface there fore very profitable. However we are surprised to learn that the Tz Gov gets just about 7% of the sales of Tz's gold. It is shocking. Further, I told and convinced the late Njari that the best way to start the Coal project going is through Power generation namerly foring of pulverised coal that would have looked after the question of the coal being highly bituminous and as such liable to cake the fire tubes in conventional firing. We at NCI THROUGH mR aLMASI HELPED the Late Njari to get sponsership for the project which has proven to be viable and profitable, that was way back in the late 198s. We are still wondering what is happening to TZ the Chuchuma power project has not being implemented and that would have long solved the power problem that is being expirenced in Tz secondly there is a. I think people have to be very careful about this Neo Liberal situation that has been forced on African countries. Chile, Brazil Argentina are going back to very prominant State participation in the mining sector. Tanzania shoud do the same there is no way that Anglo can make all those profits and be given Tax holidays to revcoup their investment those mines although they are high in gold content have a life time of just 10-15 years and it will be too late when those guys atart paying Tax. As it is the books of account are very opaque as such nobody really knows how much the investment cost are and what are the profits.

Watanzania msikubali kuibiwa Tz has the human resource to do the job as such get on with it. Nationalise and move on.

Izak Khomo

South Africa

Chemical Engineer NDC/NCI

I have joined the forum recently with the aim of sharing knowledge, skills and experience from the members and in so doing increase the momentum to propel the country’s economic engine even further. I work with NBC Ltd as a senior economist.

To set the pendulum rolling I would like to say that all the topics discussed in the conference embodied valuable ingredients necessary for proper running of this country. In fact up to now we have a huge reservoir of all that is required to make this country run properly i.e. everything is almost documented. What is the problem then? The major problem facing this country is LEADERSHIP i.e. there exist a leadership VACUUM. Let me revisit shortly on the origin of this vacuum. During the first leadership era of Mwalimu Nyerere, the country adopted the policy of Ujamaa & Kujitegemea which every citizen knew about it. The government controlled all economic pillars and in fact all major economic base were established. When the second phase came in under Mwinyi, the government abandoned Ujamaa & Kujitegemea. The linkage between the people and leaders was broken and no effort was done to educate the people on the new path which the government took by then. This is the origin of the vacuum and since then it has not been filled to-date. That is why all the good things that are proposed or initiated by experts and technocrats are not appreciated by these leaders of today.

I think time is now ripe to correct this situation through the KATIBA process which will empower the people of this country. I would therefore like to encourage everyone in this forum to participate fully in this process so that we achieve to remove this vacuum by filling the right people to run the affairs of this country. It is a big shame to remain poor in a country endowed with massive resources.

Yonoh Mtengule

Sr. Economist - NBC Ltd -HO

I rest my case.

Now that we have lost direction,so much can be said in a bid to get us out of this development quagmire. But unless we learn from UJAMAA and re-think our approach to development,this is doomed to suffer endlessly. With a Neo-liberal assault,Universities are now producing COMMODITIES. Graduates who can`t THEORIZE but ACT. Can you ever expect a UNIQUE model out of this COPYCAT

Tiger economies grew into eminence due to socialist/communist policies. Even Brazil,one of BRICS followed the same path. Ideology has a role to play. Let us be IDEOLOGICAL AND POLITICAL. Let us envision a revolution.

Dastan Kweka

Pan-Africanist,Socialist and Poet.

Most of the young generation don't know that Tanzania has already an existing National Mining Company namely STAMICO. It was created in 1970's under the initiative of the late President J.K.Nyerere and I have contributed to its creation. During privatisation the government changed its function. I have myself worked at STAMICO, Dodoma and Madini Office. All mines  were under  STAMICO including exploration work. It is difficult to break any mine contract since these contracts have international implications ( or rather bindings).However, the government can refuse extending the existing contracts.

Dr.Khamis
Sweden

>From now on the government should not only build schools and colleges but also should consider where will these graduates finally end?

Tanzanians with good business idea should be encouraged to start industries with government assistance. If possible let the government come up with a business idea and sell to the people or look for joint venture with local Tanzanians. Today University students do not have places to practice what they have leaned. They end up only doing theoretical field work which is very dangerous to the development of this country. Hei Tanzanians wake up the fourth terms

It high time to review the Mining Policy in Tanzania that such hiden resources be mined to benefit the indegenous people.

Elisha Sibale Mwamkinga

I support what mr Omari has just said we need to make sure minerals are also mined by Tanzania companies under PPP program to avoid excessive drifting of our economy as we move forward!

Best regards

Sebastian

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Francis D Sinkamba

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The government has to put in place a Professional Geologist as a Minister for Energy and Minerals. There is already one MP with such a qualification. It has to mine coal as a source for energy and export some to other countries(African countries).Concluding remarks of Prof.Mbelele are to be followed especially the review of the mining act 2010

Dr.Khamis

Exploration and Mining Consultant

Sweden

Welcome to a new discussion topic on economic growth. This discussion is a follow-up to the ESRF National conference titled “Unleashing Growth Potentials: Lessons and Way Forward in Creating an inclusive Growth” held recently in Dar es Salaam. Together with keynote speeches from Prof. Beno Nduru - BOT Governor and Dr. Huang Chengwei from China, the conference covered the following themes;

1. Industrialization, Mining and Tourism Potential

2. Land Management and Agriculture Growth

3. Leadership and Governance

4. Green Growth, Infrastructure and Human Resource Development

We invite you to learn what transpired during the conference and to share and discuss issues that are pertinent to unleashing the growth potentials and create inclusive growth. Specifically we would like your contributions to address the following issues in relation to the above themes and the conference subject:

1. What strategies and interventions should be employed to unleash growth potentials in the country

2. What are the growth drivers in the country?

3. How can growth adequately be translated in to poverty reduction and improved quality of life of the people?

4. What are the obstacles to achieving inclusive growth?

Papers represented in this conference can be accessed through the below website:

http://www.esrf.or.tz/May_conference/index.html