The Zanzibar Revolutionary Government has designed a Zanzibar Poverty Reduction Plan (ZPRP). The plan is a result of a consultative process involving stakeholders from Government, civil society and the private sector. The ZPRP is a first step on the road to implementing the Zanzibar Vision 2020.

Part of the plan involves creating wide public understanding and awareness of what it involves. This will make sure that all people can participate and be meaningfully involved in the ongoing design, implementation and monitoring of the plan.

A ZPRP Popularisation Task Force (ZPRP-PTF) has been formed to assist with wide public understanding and awareness. This plain language, illustrated booklet Zanzibar without Poverty is the first main product of the ZPRP-PTF.

A programme of workshops for distributing the booklets has also been designed. This involves improving the skills of civil society organisations as animators on public policy analysis at the community level. Other training materials associated with the booklet include video and theatrical productions. Part of the role of the animators is to gather and analyse feedback from communities and pass it to the relevant authorities.

Everyone is invited to participate in the ongoing design, implementation and monitoring of the ZPRP. You can do this by responding either as an individual or as a group to the ideas in this booklet.

For contact information on where to send your ideas click here.

Thank you

ZPRP-PTF

The most significant departure in recent approaches to poverty reduction is the active encouragement of stakeholder participation in policy formulation, design and in the implementation of poverty strategies and programmes.

The principle is now deeply embedded in the planning process in Tanzania and it is the intention of the ZPRP to strongly support this development in the planning process in Zanzibar.

  (ZPRP, Jan 2002)