This Zanzibar Development Vision 2050 (ZDV50) is a long-term national development plan formulated to guide Zanzibar’s overall development agenda from the year 2020 to 2050. It serves as a successor plan to Vision 2020 and has the overall aspiration of lifting Zanzibar economically and socially to attain Upper-Middle Income Status by 2050 by prioritizing inclusive and pro-poor policies that target wide-reaching strategic considerations of the economic, social, political and environmental dimensions. The Vision is shaped by the following four pillars (1) economic transformation of Zanzibar’s productive capabilities through economic modernization and diversification; (2) human capital and social services that it is healthy, competitive, innovative and productive; (3) infrastructural linkages and provision of modern, high quality, accessible and reliable infrastructure within and across homes and settlements; and (4) governance and resilience. Each pillar is subdivided into different priority areas, reflecting the layers of Zanzibar’s economy and society. Every priority area in turn consists of aspirations for the next 30 years and targeted performance indicators. To help eliminate hunger and malnutrition, the Vision focuses on nutrition-sensitive agriculture to achieve high food and nutritional security. It also aims to provide an inclusive, high quality health services for maternal, neonatal, child and adolescent health. More productive and sustainable agriculture and fisheries sectors can be achieved through (i) intensified and diversified production and productivity of high-quality crops, livestock, fisheries, aquaculture as well as marine and forestry products, focusing on labor-intensive production; (ii) enhanced agricultural extension services that equip agricultural value-chain actors with appropriate technologies in crop and livestock husbandry practices, and aquaculture; (iii) optimal water supply management for agriculture. To enhance more inclusive and efficient agricultural and food systems, Vision 2050 aims to (i) invest in appropriate high quality and facilitative inputs, technologies, research; (ii) develop capacity to produce quality products for exports and local markets, including tourism; (iii) promote agribusinesses, reinforced by effective farmer organizations, focused on improving and expanding production, marketing, value addition and regular access to market information for export and domestic markets; (iv) create strong linkages between tourism and agricultural supply chain actors by incentivizing tourist establishments to purchase and source local products and minimize imports; (v) increase the industrial value addition, including the commercialization of fisheries and aquaculture, in line with domestic and export market demand as well as the Blue Economy development; () promote transparent, accountable and participatory land governance for sustainable land use. The resilience of livelihoods to disasters can be increased by (i) developing a climate-smart agriculture that builds climate resilience by incorporating appropriate financing strategies, risk management measures and agricultural insurance for agricultural value-chain actors; (ii) enforcing a comprehensive mechanism for sustainable oil and gas exploration; (iii) maintaining an equitable and sustainable universal healthcare system accessible to all, supported by modern medical technologies and facilities; (iv) ensuring greater accessibility and sustainability of water resources, sanitation services and hygiene practices, ensuring all households and public institutions have access to safely managed water and sanitation; (v) diversifying potable water sources reinforced by the exploration of undersea freshwater, rainwater harvesting and reuse technologies as well as seawater desalination; (vi) including the enforcement of the ‘polluter pays’ principle and the construction of sewerage treatment systems for households and industry; (vii) promoting sustainable and responsible collection, processing and disposal of solid, liquid and hazardous waste; (viii) promoting eco-friendly, sustainable, innovative and cost-effective building methods to avoid misallocation of resources and environmental destruction; (ix) attaining greater power system independence and reliability through the diversification of energy sources, especially renewable energy; (x) utilizing land equitably and sustainably through flexible and innovative land administration; (xi) pursuing comprehensive green and blue development through the sustainable management of the environment and natural resources (ENR) and climate resilience; (xii) a strong disaster management framework backed by a comprehensive information system, monitoring and research with improved early warning systems to overcome epidemics, fires, natural disasters and hazardous events at all levels. As for Governance, Vision 2050 will be implemented in three 10-year phases (namely 2020-2030, 2030-2040 and 2040-2050) that will guide growth strategies and policies. At the end of every 10-year term, conduct a comprehensive evaluation of the Vision will be conducted, including analyses of two areas (1) the performance of and trends in Zanzibar’s macroeconomic indicators with respect to national income and poverty reduction to determine national progress towards fulfilling the Vision’s main goal of attaining UMIS by 2050; (2) the progress in each pillar and priority area therein, measured against the corresponding target of every performance indicator for that particular period.
Zanzibar (República Unida de Tanzanía) · 2020-10-01