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Millennium development goals – are we real prepared?
Have you read the document on our country strategy to achieve the MDGs?. If you have I think you will agree with me that it is one of the best documents – a comprehensive one, in terms of where we want to go and what we need. This document I guest was prepared by people who had time and resources to sit down and think then put ideas on paper.
Recalling Mwalimu J.K.Nyerere’s argument, development becomes a reality when the following conditions are in place, - good leadership, people and land – the expansion of this leads into going further to qualify good leaderships into commitment of our leaders; people are educated to attract investment especially for high value technologies that requires skills and land as the first national valuable asset.
For a country like Tanzania, achieving the millennium development goals requires investment in human resource development through training in skills to match up current technological development. One could think current mass enrolment of students for high education is a step forward, but looking at the global economy and the level of technological advancement expected in few years to come, it is obvious that we in no way near towards achieving the MDGs. We will continue to talk of food crisis amid potential for surplus production, we will continue waving tax on food imports at the expense of hurting local production we will continue to register factories for light technologies that does not require skilled labour such as juice packing that will not contribute to our export earnings for the much needed foreign exchange. In short we will never boost our export with by factories dealing with packaging of water and other soft drinks. Nor shall we se investors seek to train our people in management skills are it is not needed to distribute water to stockists.
While the year 2025 is not far from today it is unlikely that we have started the journey into the right direction. What do we need then?, I just formulated the debate and I would like to invite you to contribute your ideas so that we can collectively team up to save our country in efforts to be part of the people we think of as per our country’s vision 2025
