Wat President Mkapa schreef 10 jaar geleden

The following is an extract of the Vision 2025 written ten years ago by the then President Mkapa:

2.2.1 Donor-Dependence-Syndrome and a Dependent and Defeatist Developmental Mindset

The mindset of the people of Tanzania and their leaders has succumbed to donor dependency and has resulted in an erosion of initiative and a lack of ownership of the development agenda. This condition has not been conducive to addressing the development challenges with dignity, confidence, determination, and persistence through hard work and creativity. The educational system has not been structured to counter this deterioration in the ownership of the development agenda and in fostering self-confidence in the determination of the nation’s destiny.

The following characteristics have become evident:

#          External dependence and the erosion of confidence, dignity and determination have demobilized the ability to effectively utilize human, physical and mental capacities to take initiative and to earnestly search for creative options to solve development problems. As a result, considerable potential capabilities in Tanzania have not been effectively marshalled and deployed for development.

#          The mindset of the leaders and people of Tanzania has neither been supportive of hard work, ingenuity and creativity, nor has it provided a conducive environment for these attributes to emerge. Thus, there is a high-degree of apathy and lack of accountability and self-motivation. Initiative, ingenuity, creativity and innovativeness in society are at a low ebb. Consequently, a culture of admiring “effortless” success has erupted and, with it, productive of individual initiative and the spirit of community development have not taken a positive shape.

#          The level and quality of education that has been attained has not been adequate to meet the growing development challenges and to enable the search for solutions to the development problems that confront the nation. In particular, education has not adequately and appropriately been geared to integrate the individual into the community. Equally, it also has not been able to innovatively engage Tanzanians in entrepreneurship and self-employment.

(The Tanzanian Development Vision 2025, The United Republic of Tanzania, Planning Commission, no date.)