THE UNITED REPUBLIC OF TANZANIA NATIONAL POPULATION POLICY INISTRY OF PLANNING, ECONOMY AND EMPOWERMENT 2006

THE UNITED REPUBLIC OF TANZANIA NATIONAL POPULATION POLICY MINISTRY OF PLANNING, ECONOMYAND EMPOWERMENT 2006 THE UNITED REPUBLIC OF TANZANIA NATIONAL POPULATION POLICY MINISTRY OF PLANNING, ECONOMYAND EMPOWERMENT 2006 TABLE OF CONTENTS LIST OFACRONYMS AND BREVIATIONS..................................................................................... ii FOREWORD .......................................................................................................................................... iii BACKGROUND...................................................................................................................................... iv CHAPTER ONE .................................................................................................................................... 1 1.0 PRINCIPLES ........................................................................................................................ 1 1.1 Principles to Guide Policy Implementation ............................................................................ 1 CHAPTER TWO ................................................................................................................................... 2 2.0 POPULATION AND DEVELOPMENT ............................................................................. 2 2.1 Socio-economic setting ............................................................................................................ 2 2.2 Population Size, Composition and Distribution ..................................................................... 2 2.3 Components of Population Growth ........................................................................................ 3 2.4 Population and Development Inter-relationships ................................................................... 5 2.5 Population and Gender ........................................................................................................... 6 CHAPTER THREE ............................................................................................................................... 7 3.0 JUSTIFICATION OF THE NEW POPULATION POLICY .......................................... 7 3.1 Achievements, Constraints and Limitations ........................................................................... 7 3.2 New Developments and Continuing Challenges .................................................................... 9 3.3 Major Concerns in Population and Development ..................................................................10 CHAPTER FOUR .................................................................................................................................. 11 4.0 GOALS, OBJECTIVES, ISSUES AND POLICY DIRECTIONS ....................................11 4.1 Goals of the Policy .................................................................................................................. 11 4.2 Integration of Population Variables into Development Planning .......................................... 11 4.3 Population Growth and Employment ...................................................................................... 12 4.4 Problems of Special Groups in Society ................................................................................... 13 4.5 Gender Equity, Equality and Women Empowerment .............................................................. 15 4.6 Reproductive Health ................................................................................................................ 17 4.7 STIs, HIV and AIDS ................................................................................................................ 19 4.8 Environment Conservation for Sustainable Development .......................................................21 4.9 Agriculture, Food and Nutrition ............................................................................................. 22 4.10 Poverty in Tanzania ................................................................................................................ 24 4.11 Education ................................................................................................................................ 25 4.12 Data Collection, Processing, Storage, Dissemination, Training and Research ........................... 26 4.13 Advocacy and Information, Education and Communication (IEC) ...................................... 27 CHAPTER FIVE .................................................................................................................................... 28 5.0 INSTITUTIONALARRANGEMENTS AND ROLES OF SECTORS .......................... 28 5.1 Institutional Arrangements .................................................................................................... 28 5.2 Roles and Responsibilities of Stakeholders ............................................................................29 CHAPTER SIX ...................................................................................................................................... 34 6.0 PLANNING, MONITORING AND EVALUATION..........................................................34 6.1 Introduction ............................................................................................................................ 34 6.2 Rationale for Planning, Monitoring and Evaluation ............................................................ 34 6.3 Planning, Monitoring and Evaluation Framework ............................................................... 34 6.4 The Priority Action areas for Monitoring and Evaluation .................................................... 35 6.5 Indicators for Monitoring and Evaluation ............................................................................. 35 i LIST OFACRONYMS AND ABBREVIATIONS AIDS ANC ARV ASRH BCG CDR CED DPT-HB DS ENRM EOC EPI FBO FGM FLE FWCW GDP HBS HIV ICPD IEC ILFS IMR IRDP MCH/FP MDG MMR MP NACP NGO NPP NPTC PAC PCPD PEDP PHCC PHCU PLH POPP SME STI TACAIDS TDHS TFR TPAPD TRCHS UNGASS URT WSSD - Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome - Antenatal Care - Anti-Retro Viral - Adolescent Sexual Reproductive Health - Bacillus Calmette Guerin - Crude Death Rate - Conference on Environment and Development - Diptheria Pertusis and Tetanus-Hepatitis B - Demographic Survey - Environmental and Natural Resource Management - Emergency Obstetric Care - Expanded Programme of Immunisation - Faith Based Organizations - Female Genital Mutilation - Family Life Education - Fourth World Conference on Women - Gross Domestic Product - Household Budget Survey - Human Immunodeficiency Virus - International Conference on Population and Development - Information, Education and Communication - Integrated Labour Force Survey - Infant Mortality Rate - Institute of Rural Development Planning - Maternal and Child Health/Family Planning - Millennium Development Goals - Maternal Mortality Rate - Member of Parliament - National AIDS Control Programme - Non-Governmental Organizations - National Population Policy - National Population Technical Committee - Post Abortion Care - Tanzania Council on Population and Development - Primary Education Development Programme - Primary Health Care Centres - Primary Health Care Units - Persons Living with HIV - President’s Office, Planning and Privatization - Small and Medium Enterprises - Sexually Transmitted Infections - Tanzania Commission for AIDS - Tanzania Demographic and Health Survey - Total Fertility Rate - Tanzania Parliamentarian Association on Population Development - Tanzania Reproductive and Child Health Survey - United Nations General Assembly Special Session - United Republic of Tanzania - World Summit for Social Development ii FOREWORD The Government of the United Republic of Tanzania adopted the National Population Policy in 1992. Since then, new developments have been taking place nationally and internationally, which have a direct bearing on population and development. This necessitated the Government to revise the National Population Policy in order to accommodate those new developments. Domestically, the economy moved significantly away from being centrally planned to a market economy with increasing dominance of the private sector which plays a more active role in population and development issues. Furthermore, in June 1999, the Government unveiled a new development vision known as the Tanzania Development Vision 2025. The revised National Population Policy, 2006 has the goal of coordinating and influencing other policies, strategies and programmes that ensure sustainable development of the people and promoting gender equality and the empowerment of women. It will be implemented through a multi-sectoral and multi-dimensional, integrated approach. In this regard, the Government will collaborate with Non-Governmental Organisations (NGOs), the private sector, communities and other agencies in implementing the policy. Indeed, individuals, political parties and other organised groups in the civil society are expected to play an active role to ensure the attainment of policy goals and objectives. The principal objective of the country’s development vision is to move Tanzanians away from poverty and uplift their quality of life. The policy, therefore, gives guidelines for addressing population issues in an integrated manner. It thus recognises the linkages between population dynamics and quality of life on one hand, and environmental protection and sustainable development on the other. Its implementation will give a new dimension to development programmes by ensuring that population issues are appropriately addressed. It is my expectation that, with full support and participation of the people, the implementation of this policy will be a success. Hon. JUMAA. NGASONGWA (MP) MINISTER MINISTRY OF PLANNING, ECONOMYAND EMPOWERMENT iii ... - tailieumienphi.vn