Sectoral Policy and Legislation. In 1998, the Government approved a new Forest Policy. The overall goal of this policy is to enhance the contribution of the forest sector to the sustainable development of Tanzania and the conservation and management of her natural resources for the benefit of present and future generations. This policy focuses in four areas: • Forest land management • Forest-based industries and products • Ecosystem conservation and management • Institutions and human resources The objectives of the forest sector on the basis of the overall goal are as follows: • Ensure sustainable supply of forest products and services by maintaining sufficient forest area under effective management. • Increase employment and foreign exchange earnings through sustainable forest-based industrial development and trade; • Ensure ecosystem stability through conservation of forest biodiversity, water catchments and soil fertility; and • Enhance national capacity to manage and develop the forest sector in collaboration with other stakeholders. In order to implement this new policy, two instruments have been developed, these are: - The NFP, approved by the Government in November 2001, aims at promoting conservation and sustainable use of forest resources to meet local, national and global needs. - Xxx Xxxxxx Xxx 0000 aims at putting the legal framework for the implementation of the Policy. The Parliament, on its sitting in April 2002, approved the New Forest Act.
Sectoral Policy and Legislation. The Government of Bangladesh is committed to improving food safety standards of aquatic products destined for international markets and considerable measures have been taken to improve policy, legal frameworks and laboratory testing and monitoring procedures. For example, the responsibility for fish inspection and quality control is with the Department of Fisheries (DOF), which maintains several laboratories to certify the quality of exportable fish and fishery products. The Fisheries Ordinance is further implemented by the Fish and Fish Product (Inspection and Quality Control) Rules (1997), which include HACCP requirements for shrimp processing plants. However, there is no legislation in place for controlling fish movement, disease, use of chemicals and veterinary drugs, and use of feed. In addition, there is little or no efforts are made to improve the farm management knowledge base of the thousands of small-scale farmers engaged in aquatic food production by training so that irresponsible use of banned antibacterials can be reduced. This project will organize and train small-scale farmers to better manage their farms thus reducing the irresponsible use of antimicrobials and other therapeutic drugs and chemicals.. In order to ensure long-term sustainability and efficiency of better management practices, the project will have clear farmer training and empowerment and policy strengthening components. A key part of the project will include the identification of causes of disease, better understanding of current veterinary drug use and practices and assistance towards implementation of appropriate Codex Codes of Practice guidelines and OIE standards. The project is designed not only to strengthen the capacity of the shrimp sector but also to link farmers and the farming sector with policy makers, buyers, retailers and certifiers in the international trading arena, and strengthen public-private-partnerships (PPPs) along the shrimp and prawn value chain, so that the project outcomes will be long lasting and sustainable. The project will xxxxxx strong PPP through bringing together the industry and state together in managing small-scale farming sector. The BMPs to be developed will fully comply with the FAO Code of Conduct for Responsible Fisheries, the Code of Conduct for Bangladesh Shrimp Industry, jointly prepared by the Department of Fisheries and the BSFF in March 2011. The project will complement the trainer training programme on implementation of Shrimp C...
Sectoral Policy and Legislation. Government's overarching policy vision, presented in "Vision 2030", is for Zambia to "become a prosperous middle income country by 2030". The Fifth National Development Plan (FNDP) 2006-2010, and the associated Medium-Term Expenditure Framework (MTEF), provides the link between "Vision 2030" and the annual activity plans and budgets. FNDP is thus Government's comprehensive medium-term planning framework, which ensures that sectoral strategic plans are well coordinated, interlinked, and prioritised based on assessments of resource ceilings as set out in MTEF. It defines Government's vision, goals, and programmes for each sector and cross-cutting and thematic area to achieve Vision 2030. Zambia’s body of laws relating to the management of the Environment and Natural Resources sector is spread over more than 20 international treaties and over 30 Acts of Parliament and responsibility dispersed amongst at least ten line ministries. The sectoral legislation or regulations include the following key acts: Pollution Control Act (1990), Wildlife Act (1998), Forests Act (1999), Forest Act (1999), Water Act (2001), Energy Act (1994), Lands Act (1995), Mining and Minerals Act (1995), Environmental Protection and Pollution Control Act (1990), Land Survey Act (1995), and National Heritage Conservation Commission Act. At the policy level, Zambia through the Lands Act of 1995 has recognised customary land as eligible for state registration and thus one can get leasehold title on customary land. This has empowered peasant farmers and women with security of tenure to land. In 1995 the Zambia Forestry Action Programme (ZFAP) planning process was launched in response to the FAO tropical Forestry Action Plan of 1987. ZFAP was undertaken as an integral part of the National Environmental Action Plan process, which was developed to incorporate environmental issues into social and economic policy and development planning. The current National Forestry Policy (1998) and Forestry Act (1999) are outcomes from the ZFAP planning process. The Act was entered into the Government Gazette on October 1999 but has not been implemented yet, so the Forestry Act has been in abeyance for ten years5. At the moment the forestry sector, including the Forestry Department, needs deeply to get a new policy which will provide framework for restructuring FD and an enabling environment for new issues, as the National XXXX readiness strategy. Public Service Reform and Decentralization were initiated by the...
