Miradi ya kijamii Zanzibar

<div style="text-align: justify;">Serikali imeshauriwa kufatilia kwa kina miradi ya jamii ili iwe ambayo imepekewa kwa wananchi kwa kutaka iwe imara na yenye kuleta manufa kwa taifa.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Ushauri huo umetolewa na katibu mstaafu wa mradi wa jamii unaohusu vyakula vya nafaka Juma Nyendo Haji alipokuwa akizungumza na mwandishi wa hits fm radio uko ofisini kwajke Upenja wilaya ya kaskazini B unguja.</div><div style="text-align: justify;">Amesema kuwa ni vyema serikali kuwa karibu na mradi huo ili kupata msukumo ambao utawasaidia wananchi kuepukana na usumbufu wa kufuata mashine za kusagia nafaka zao.Hata hivyo,katibu hyo ameongeza kuwa kutokana na faida walioipata kupitia mradi wa vyakula vya nafaka wameamua kuuendeleza mradi wa ufugaji wa mbuzi wa maziwa</div>

Miradi ya kijamii Zanzibar

Serikali imeshauriwa kufatilia kwa kina miradi ya jamii ili iwe ambayo imepekewa kwa wananchi kwa kutaka iwe imara na yenye kuleta manufa kw...

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Wapiganaji Libya

<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-WyPn41epFdA/TkgbT_DMpoI/AAAAAAAAAn8/AWzIRtFveBo/s1600/110613110947_zawiya_rebels_304x171_ap_nocredit.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" naa="true" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-WyPn41epFdA/TkgbT_DMpoI/AAAAAAAAAn8/AWzIRtFveBo/s1600/110613110947_zawiya_rebels_304x171_ap_nocredit.jpg" /></a></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Wapiganaji wa Libya wadai kuingia katika mji wa Zawiya na inasemekana kwamba wapiganaji hao waliingia katika mji huo jana, wakati huo huo wakuu wa Tripoli wamedai kuwa bado wanaudhibiti mji huo wa Zawiya. Endapo wapiganaji wa Libya watafanikiwa kuuteka mji wa Zawiya kwao utakuwa ni ushindi mnono na ni pigo kwa kiongozi wa Libya. Mji huo ni jirani na mji mkuu, na uko kwenye barabara inayotoka Tunisia, njia muhimu kwa Kanali Gaddafi. Ni wazi kuwa wapiganaji wameweza kuingia mjini humo jana, ingawa walipigwa mizinga na risasi. Ripoti moja kutoka Zawiya kwenyewe, ilisema wapiganaji walikaribishwa na mamia ya wenyeji. Wapiganaji wanadai kuwa usiku ulipoingia, walikuwa wameshaudhibiti mji.Wakuu mjini Tripoli wamesema shambulio la wapiganaji lilikuwa dogo tu na kudai kuwa bado wanaudhibiti mji wa Zawiya</div>

Wapiganaji Libya

Wapiganaji wa Libya wadai kuingia katika mji wa Zawiya na inasemekana kwamba wapiganaji hao waliingia katika mji huo jana, wakati huo huo wa...

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Ukame wachukuwa maisha ya Waturkana nchini kenya

<br /> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><img border="0" height="179" naa="true" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-w1KC9owxzoE/TkgPtDPhK4I/AAAAAAAAAn4/o1RFjqDnsvo/s320/091014011233_drought386.jpg" width="320" /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;">Kiasi ya watu 14 wamekufa katika nja katika eneo la Kaskazini Mashariki la Turkana nchini Kenya, vifo hivyo ambavyo vinahusishwa kutokana na njaa na ukame unaoendelea katika eneo la Turkana nchini kenya, imeelezwa kwamba ni tokea la  kwanza kutokea ambalo linagharimu maisha na uhai wa watu nchini Kenya.</div><div style="text-align: justify;">Mbunge wa Turkana, John Munyes, alisema vifo hivyo vimetokea katika vijiji vitatu baada ya serikali kushindwa kusafirisha chakula kwa ajili ya watu walioathiriwa na ukamenchni kenya.Umoja wa Mataifa unasema zaidi ya raia wa Kenya milioni nne wanatishiwa na ukosefu wa chakula katika eneo lilikumbwa na ukame mbaya katika kipindi cha miaka 60. Nchi nyingine zilizoathiriwa ni Somalia, Ethiopia na Djiblouti.</div><div style="text-align: justify;">Mwandishi wa BBC Odiambo Joseph akiwa Turkana anasema ametembelea kijiji ambacho mamia ya watu wengi wao wakiwa wazee na dhaifu walikuwa kwenye mstri mrefu wa kugawiwa chakula. Watu 14 waliokufa nchini Kenya walikuwa watu wazima, lakini watoto pia wana utapiamlo mkali, mwandishi wa BBC anasema</div>

Ukame wachukuwa maisha ya Waturkana nchini kenya

Kiasi ya watu 14 wamekufa katika nja katika eneo la Kaskazini Mashariki la Turkana nchini Kenya, vifo hivyo ambavyo vinahusishwa kutokana n...

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Bwawani Hotel yahitaji marekebisho ya kiutendaji ili kuifanya iwe bora zaidi

<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><img border="0" height="240" naa="true" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-SQll8PFPoXQ/TkgLfJSIr8I/AAAAAAAAAnw/aQIqcopIz9E/s320/DSC05082.JPG" width="320" /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-Dkq_ihpQtxE/TkgLt7G3QZI/AAAAAAAAAn0/VpL09wXEmb0/s1600/DSC05083.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="240" naa="true" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-Dkq_ihpQtxE/TkgLt7G3QZI/AAAAAAAAAn0/VpL09wXEmb0/s320/DSC05083.JPG" width="320" /></a></div>

Bwawani Hotel yahitaji marekebisho ya kiutendaji ili kuifanya iwe bora zaidi

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6th Lola Kenya Screen Presents Films for Enjoyment, Learning and Participation in the 21st Century

<div style="text-align: justify;">The Nairobi-based Lola Kenya Screen audiovisual media festival, skill-development mentorship programme and market for children and youth in eastern Africa has on July 12, 2011 released the film line up for the August 8-13, 2011 event. It is held on the theme, “Films for Enjoyment, Learning and Participation in the 21st Century”.In its sixth year, Lola Kenya Screen received more than 300 films from 102 countries from which 150 have been selected following a rigorous viewing selection process by children, youth, mass communication students, journalists, critics and parents. Fewer films shall be programmed than ever before following the introduction of media literacy seminars in 2010 and film discussion at the end of every film in 2011. </div><div style="text-align: justify;">The selected films shall be presented in 10 categories, including the 6th Golden Mboni Award for the best children’s film, the 3rd 14-Plus Award for the best youth film, the 5th Kids for Kids Festival Africa, Films by Students, Films by Children for Children, Eastern Africa Prism, World Panorama, and three special focus areas: Documentary, Busan International Kids’ Festival (BIKI, South Korea) and George Washington University’s Documentary Centre (USA) productions.</div><div style="text-align: justify;">The battle for the best children’s film is likely to be between Italy and Spain that have two entries each in the 10-film contest that also has three entries from Kenya, and one each from Belgium, Palestine, and USA. Indeed, the hardest contest is likely to be waged over the Golden Mboni Award where Kenya is, for the first time in the 6-year history of the festival, well represented. The United States and Belgium are unlikely to go down. But if they do, the victor will be left with wounds that will take a while to heal. </div><div style="text-align: justify;">Spain is again well represented in the 14-Plus Award for the best youth film contest in which Madagascar, Namibia, Kenya and France shall also be hoping to pip the others for the prize. The contest has 10 films.</div><div style="text-align: justify;">All the 10 categories have particularly strong films that will keep the audience busy and discussing them over the entire six-day of the festival that shall be held in both the Nairobi City Centre and the densely populated Eastlands residential neigbourhood. Besides film shows, Lola Kenya Screen shall host a two-day roundtable for the independent audiovisual media producers. Motivational speakers drawn from the fledgling audiovisual media sector are also expected to interact with children and youth. </div>

6th Lola Kenya Screen Presents Films for Enjoyment, Learning and Participation in the 21st Century

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TAARIFA KWA VYOMBO VYA HABARI

<div style="text-align: justify;">CHAMA cha waandishi wa Habari za Michezo Zanzibar (TASWA-ZANZIBAR), kimesikitishwa na taarifa zilizochapishwa katika gazeti la Champion linalotolewa Dar es Salaam toleo la Agosti 8-9, 2011.Katika habari zilizoandikwa na mwandishi Khadija Mngwai na kuchapishwa kwenye ukurasa wa tatu, ilielezwa kuwa, TASWA-ZANZIBAR imeandaa kongamano kubwa la wadau wa michezo wa Unguja na Pemba.</div><div style="text-align: justify;">Taarifa hiyo ilieleza kuwa lengo la kongamano hilo ni kujadili maendeleo ya tasnia ya michezo visiwani humu ambapo mgeni rasmi anatarajiwa kuwa Rais wa Zanzibar na Mwenyekiti wa Baraza la Mapinduzi Dk. Ali Mohamed Shein.Kwa mujibu wa mwandishi wa habari hizo, taarifa hizo alizipata kupitia kwa Makamu Mwenyekiti wa TASWA-ZANZIBAR aliyemtaja kwa jina la Hashimu Salim ambaye alisema kuwa kongamano hilo litakuwa la kihistoria na kwamba halijawahi kutokea hapa Zanzibar. Aidha, taarifa hiyo ilifahamisha kuwa suala jengine litakalojadiliwa ni kutokujitokeza kwa wadhamini kukuza soka la Zanzibar, hivyo kupitia kongamano hilo, kutapatikana njia sahihi za kutatua tatizo hilo.</div><div style="text-align: justify;">TASWA-ZANZIBAR inapenda kutoa taarifa kupitia vyombo vya habari, kwamba haijaandaa kongamano hilo wala haijawasiliana na Ofisi ya Rais wa Zanzibar kumuomba awe mgeni rasmi. Halikadhalika, mtu aliyetajwa kuwa ndiye aliyetoa taarifa hizo Hashimu Salim si Makamu Mwenyekiti wa chama chetu wala hana wadhifa wowote ule na TASWA-ZANZIBAR haimtambui. Ni vyema ieleweke kuwa, TASWA-ZANZIBAR ina kamati yake ya uongozi ambayo ndiyo yenye mamlaka ya kutoa taarifa zake na haitumii watu au mawakala walioko nje ya chama hicho.</div><div style="text-align: justify;">Tunapenda ifahamike kuwa taarifa hizo si sahihi, na kwamba mwandishi ameupotosha umma wa Wazanzibari na Watanzania kwa ujumla.Kupitia taarifa hizi, TASWA-ZANZIBAR inawaomba wananchi na wanamichezo wote wasiziamini taarifa hizo, kwani zimelenga kukichafulia jina chama chetu mbele ya wananchi ambao tayari wameonesha kukikubali, na pia mbele ya Ofisi ya Rais wa Zanzibar na Mwenyekiti wa Baraza la Mapinduzi.Aidha kupitia taarifa hii, tunamuomba mhariri wa gazeti hilo, achapishe habari ya kusahihisha taarifa hizo za uzushi kwa manufaa ya wananchi na tasnia ya habari za michezo kwa ujumla. </div><div style="text-align: justify;">Salum Vuai Issa</div><div style="text-align: justify;">Msaidizi Katibu</div><div style="text-align: justify;">TASWA-Zanzibar</div>

TAARIFA KWA VYOMBO VYA HABARI

CHAMA cha waandishi wa Habari za Michezo Zanzibar (TASWA-ZANZIBAR), kimesikitishwa na taarifa zilizochapishwa katika gazeti la Champion lina...

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Mgomo wa mafuta Tanzania

<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-2s2bF6wWbbg/TkbhcpvtA3I/AAAAAAAAAns/pGZidzJaMpI/s1600/Tanzania-gas-jerrycans-175.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" naa="true" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-2s2bF6wWbbg/TkbhcpvtA3I/AAAAAAAAAns/pGZidzJaMpI/s1600/Tanzania-gas-jerrycans-175.jpg" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;">Picha na Michuzi </div><div style="text-align: justify;">Unweza ukasema hawa wote wanasubirikukinga maji ili wakatumia katika majumba yao, lakini hali ilivyo ni kwamba wapo hapo kwa ajili ya kununuwa mafuta ya  mafuta ya petroli na dizeli na wala sio maji kama utakavyodhani, tatizo la mafuta lililojitokeza hivi karibuni  Tanzania kutokana na mgomo wa wafanyabiashara wa wanaotaka bei ya mafuta iliyopo sasa ni ndogo hivyo kutaka ibandishwe na kupelekea usumbufu kwa wananchini wa sehemu mbali mbali. </div><div style="text-align: justify;"></div>Mgomo huo wa wafanyabiashara ya mafuta uliodumu kwa muda wa siku saba umesababisha usumbufu na shida kwa wananchi hadi siku ya jumanne wabunge na mamlaka ya udhibiti wa nishati na madini- EWURA, kuchachamalia baadhi ya wafanyabiashara na kuwataka watoa huduma hiyo muhimu kwa taifa na jamii kwa ujumla. <br /> <div style="text-align: justify;"><br /> </div>

Mgomo wa mafuta Tanzania

Picha na Michuzi Unweza ukasema hawa wote wanasubirikukinga maji ili wakatumia katika majumba yao, lakini hali ilivyo ni kwamba wapo hapo kw...

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Syria nako si shwari

<div style="text-align: justify;">Watu  watano wameuwawa nchini Syria, wakati majeshi ya usalama nchini humo waliposhambualia katika miji.Makundi ya haki za binadamu nchini Syria yanasema vifo vilitokea katika mji wa kati kati wa Homs, Alhamis wakati msururu wa vifaru vilipoingia katika mji wa Qusair katika eneo hilo.Wanasema shambulizi la pili lilitokea katika mji wa kaskazini-magharibi wa Saraqeb karibu na mpaka na Uturuki. Wanaharakati hao wanasema majeshi ya usalama yalivamia nyumba kadhaa na kuwakamata watu wasiopungua 70.</div><div style="text-align: justify;">Taarifa zaidi juu ya tukio hilo zimekuwa vigumu kuzipata kwa sababu serikali inawaruhusu waandishi wa habari wachache wa kigeni kuingia nchini humo na wanawadhibiti mienendo yao. <br /> Watu wasiopungua 12 waliuwawa Jumatano katika ukandamizaji wa serikali dhidi ya wapinzani. Rais wa Syria Bashar al-Assad anazidi kulaaniwa na jumuiya ya kimataifa kutokana na ukandamizaji anaouwongoza dhidi ya wapinzani wanaomtaka aondoke madarakani. Jumatano Marekani ilitangaza vikwazo vipya dhidi ya Damascus, ikisema itazuia mali za benki ya Syria nchini Marekani na huduma za simu za mkononi. White House ilisema Syria itakuwa kwenye wakati mzuri bila ya bwana Assad.</div><div style="text-align: justify;">Wakati huo huo naibu balozi wa Uingereza kwa Umoja wa Mataifa, Philip Parham, alisema Syria inafanya mashambulizi dhidi ya watu wake jambo ambalo ni ukatili na halikustahiki kutendeka, lakini Syria imekanusha matamshi hayo. Parham alizungumza na waandishi wa habari kwa niaba ya nchi nne za ulaya kwenye baraza la usalama la Umoja wa Mataifa. Alisema raia wasiopungua 2,000 wengi wasio na hatia wameuwawa nchini Syria na watu wapatao 3,000 wamelazimika kuyakimbia makazi yao,  baraza la usalama litaangalia njia zaidi za kuishinikiza Syria kama haisitishi msako wake dhidi ya waandamanaji wa upinzani. </div>

Syria nako si shwari

Watu  watano wameuwawa nchini Syria, wakati majeshi ya usalama nchini humo waliposhambualia katika miji.Makundi ya haki za binadamu nchini S...

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Cabinete ya kwanza ya Jumuhuri wa Muungano wa Tanzania

<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-cKyeQJ3Fr0Q/TkbZDQYGrrI/AAAAAAAAAno/xwGpXERsDgw/s1600/karume.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="230" naa="true" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-cKyeQJ3Fr0Q/TkbZDQYGrrI/AAAAAAAAAno/xwGpXERsDgw/s320/karume.jpg" width="320" /></a></div>Usishangae sana hii CABINET ya Muungano halisi wa Tanzania

Cabinete ya kwanza ya Jumuhuri wa Muungano wa Tanzania

Usishangae sana hii CABINET ya Muungano halisi wa Tanzania

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Haki za mtoto na wajibu kwa wazazi

<div style="text-align: justify;">Ni muda mwafaka kwa kizazi hiki ya sayansi na teknolojia kuweza kufanya mabadiliko makubwa kwatika suala zima la haki na wajibu kwa mtoto, ingawaje hili ni jambo gumu kutekelezeka na ni kikwazo kikubwa kwa baadhi ya watu kutokana na mazoweya na mila iliorithiwa kutoka kwa mabibi na mababu katika karne zilizopita.</div><div style="text-align: justify;">Ingawaje mwanadamu kutokana na halia alaivyo anapenda sana kuishi kwa mazoweya lakini anapopelekea suala zito kama hili la kubadilisha tabia ya kuwajali na kuwaheshimu watoto kwake bado inakuwa ni kikwazo na kutaka kujuwa tangu lini mtoto akawa na haki kama alivyo yeye mtu mzima.</div><div style="text-align: justify;">Ipo jamii inayodhani kwamba mtoto ni sawa na punda kwamba kila jambo baya anastahiki apowe yaye lakini binadamu huyo huyo anasahau kwamba naye alitokanana na utoto na sasa amekuwa mtu mzima wa kuitwa baba au mama, hebu tuangalie athari zitokana na kutowatendea haki watoto, kwa mfano jamii ya sasa imekuwa haioni aibu wala fedha pale ambapo mtu mzima mwenye akili timammu kumbaka mtoto wa mika miwili, mitatu n.k hii ni kutokana na ukosefu wa kutokuwepo na sheria madhubuti za kumlinda na kumuhifadhi mtoto kama zilivyo sheria za kumlinda mtu mzima.</div><div style="text-align: justify;">Kama hayo hayatoshi wapo pia wanaodiriki kuwapa mimba watoto wa miaka kumi na kumi na tano ambao kwa njia moja au nyingine wanaweza wakawa ni wanafunzi au ni mjuu wake halisi jee hali hii ya manyanyaso kwa watoto itaendela hadi lini?</div><div style="text-align: justify;">Athari nyingine itokanayo na mimba hizo za umri mdogo ni kuzalisha idadi kubwa ya watoto wa mitaani ambao kwa ujumla hawana mtu au taasisi ya kuweza kuwahudumi watoto hao.Ipo haja kwa jamii kuhemuheshimu mtoto kwa vile naye anahaki ya kuishi kama ilivyo haki ya kiumbe kingine hapa duniani, wito wangu kwa jamii na taasisi zinazotete haki za binadamu kusini na mashariki mwa Afrika kuwa makini katika kutetea haki za watoto badala za mwanamke peeke yake</div>

Haki za mtoto na wajibu kwa wazazi

Ni muda mwafaka kwa kizazi hiki ya sayansi na teknolojia kuweza kufanya mabadiliko makubwa kwatika suala zima la haki na wajibu kwa mtoto, i...

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Baraza la usalama lalaani mashambulizi yaliyofanywa kwa askari wa UNAMID Darfur

<div style="text-align: justify;"><br /> </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /> </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-vNmoa4nKV_A/TkV7r0_v6WI/AAAAAAAAAnk/qs2cnTcy-gI/s1600/unamid-2.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="225" naa="true" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-vNmoa4nKV_A/TkV7r0_v6WI/AAAAAAAAAnk/qs2cnTcy-gI/s320/unamid-2.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Baraza la usalama la Umoja wa Mataifa limelaani vikali tukio la mashambuli yaliyowalenga vikosi vya kulinda amani vya Umoja wa Mataifa na Umoja wa Afrika UNAMID vinavyoendesha operesheni zake katika jimbo la Darfur nchini Sudan, ambako askari mmoja raia wa Sierra Leone alifariki dunia na wengine kadhaa kujeruhiwa.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Katika taarifa yake juu ya kadhia hiyo, baraza hilo limeitaka serikali ya Sudan watendaji wa jinai hizo wanafikishwa kwenye mkono wa haki. Aidha limerejea hatua yake kwa kusema kuwa litaendelea kutoa ushirikiano wa dhati kwa vikosi vyake hivyo vinachukua askari 23,000 ili kufanikisha utulivu wa amani kwenye eneo hilo. Tangu kuanza kwa mkwamo wa amani kwenye eneo hilo mwaka 2003, zaidi ya watu 300,000 wamepoteza maisha huku wengine milioni 2.7 wakilazimika kwenda uhamishoni.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /> </div>

Baraza la usalama lalaani mashambulizi yaliyofanywa kwa askari wa UNAMID Darfur

Baraza la usalama la Umoja wa Mataifa limelaani vikali tukio la mashambuli yaliyowalenga vikosi vya kulinda amani vya Umoja wa Mataifa na ...

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<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-ZRn-GQva9j4/TkV5TlgZE4I/AAAAAAAAAng/8aoMHi7gyxs/s1600/somalia81.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="274" naa="true" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-ZRn-GQva9j4/TkV5TlgZE4I/AAAAAAAAAng/8aoMHi7gyxs/s320/somalia81.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Hali ya ukame na njaa imekuwa ni tatizo kubwa katika pembe ya Afrika(Somalia) ambapo inasemekana kuwa Watoto ndio wanaoathirika zaidi na tatizo la njaa nchini humo, wakatika katika maeneo mawili ya kusini mwa Somalia ya Bakool Kusini na Lower Shabelle hali ni mbaya zaid. </div><div style="text-align: justify;">Shirika la kuwahudumia watoto la Umoja wa Mataifa UNICEF llimeeleza kwamba, kati ya kila watoto watatu wanaoishi kwenye maeneo hayo  wanasumbuliwa na matatizo mbali mbali ya kiafya ukiwemo utapia mlo.</div>

Hali ya ukame na njaa imekuwa ni tatizo kubwa katika pembe ya Afrika(Somalia) ambapo inasemekana kuwa Watoto ndio wanaoathirika zaidi na tat...

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Polisi wa UK wakitazama magari yaliyochomwa moto kutokana na vurugu zinazoendelea nchini humo

<div style="text-align: justify;"><br /> </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-sXSAbGD7DBQ/TkVxIRCn01I/AAAAAAAAAnc/zfotYTXbbMc/s1600/BRITAIN-night11.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="239" naa="true" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-sXSAbGD7DBQ/TkVxIRCn01I/AAAAAAAAAnc/zfotYTXbbMc/s320/BRITAIN-night11.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Bunge la Uingereza linatarajiwa kukutana kwa ajili ya kujadili machafuko yaliyotoke hivi karibuni nchini Uingereza.Waziri Mkuu David Cameron ambaye alikatisha likizo yake ameliruhusu jeshi lapolisi ya nchi hiyo kutumia  magari yenye maji ya kuwasha kwa ajili ya kuwatawanya waandamanaji waliojazana mitaani katika miji ya Tottenham na Manchester.</div><div style="text-align: justify;">Wabunge wa nchini hiyo wanatarajiwakukutana kwaenye kikao cha  dharura ili kuweza kupata muda wa kujadili kwa kina  hali ya machafuko yaliyojitokeza hivi karibuni mara baada ya vijana kufanya vuguru za kupinga kuuliwa kwa kupigwa risasi Mark Duggan kutokana na kukaidi amri halali ya polisi.</div><div style="text-align: justify;">Waziri Mkuu Cameron amewahakikishia wananchi kuwa polisi wataendelea kupambana n waandamanaji hao na kuhakikisha kwamba hali ya usalama inarejea nchini humo kama ilivyokuwa awali.</div><div style="text-align: justify;">Waziri Mkuu ameeleza kwamba hatua zilizochukuliwa hivi sasa na jeshi la polisi ni kuhakikisha kwamba wanadhibiti kwa kiasi kikubwa hali ya ghasi  ghasia zinazoendelea nchini humo na kuahidi kuongeza idadi ya  polisi katika kila mtaa wenye machafuko na vitendo vya uhalifu.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /> </div>

Polisi wa UK wakitazama magari yaliyochomwa moto kutokana na vurugu zinazoendelea nchini humo

Bunge la Uingereza linatarajiwa kukutana kwa ajili ya kujadili machafuko yaliyotoke hivi karibuni nchini Uingereza.Waziri Mkuu David Camero...

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Mbadiliko katika sekta ya usafiri

<div style="text-align: justify;">Waziri wa wizara ya miundo mbinu na mawasiliano Zanzibar Mhe.Hemed Masoud ameeleza kwamba katika kipindi hichi cha serikali ya awamu ya saba wananchi wa Zanzibar wategemea kuona mabadiliko makubwa katika sekata ya usafiki ukiwemo wa Barabara, anga na majini.</div><div style="text-align: justify;">hayao aliyaeleza leo wakati akipoke TV mbili zenye thamani ya shilingi milioni tano kwa ajili ya kuwekwa kwenye uwanja huu. Vifaa vya ambavyo vitolewa msaada na kamapuni ya simu za mkono ya Zantel, katika makabidhiano hayo Waziri alisema kwamb Zantel kutoa msaada huu ni jambo la busara kwa vile utaweza kuwasaidia wasafiri watumiao uwanja wa ndege wa Zanzibar.</div><div style="text-align: justify;">hata hivyo, Mhe.Waziri ameeleza kwamba juhudi pia zinaendelea katika kuhakikisha kwamba badnari ya Zanzibar inakuwa ya kisasa na yenye uwezo wakupokea meli za mizingo, amefafanuwa kwamba taratibu za awalizimeshafanyika ambapo ramani ya ujenzi wa bdari hiyo tayari imeshakabidhiwa kwa serikali na sasa wanatafutwa wafadhili na wakandarasi ambao wataweza kuijenga bandari ya Zanzibar ili iweze kutoa huduma bora za usafirishaji</div>

Mbadiliko katika sekta ya usafiri

Waziri wa wizara ya miundo mbinu na mawasiliano Zanzibar Mhe.Hemed Masoud ameeleza kwamba katika kipindi hichi cha serikali ya awamu ya saba...

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Miaka 65 ya Uhuru wa India

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Miaka 65 ya Uhuru wa India

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Je kweli KONDOM zinasaidia kupunguza maambukizi ya ukimwi?

<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-3v6cj1eUjw8/TkU2CJOQ-ZI/AAAAAAAAAnM/pxYGvGYohX4/s1600/154763_111984818867749_100001686944768_62773_2694901_s.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" naa="true" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-3v6cj1eUjw8/TkU2CJOQ-ZI/AAAAAAAAAnM/pxYGvGYohX4/s1600/154763_111984818867749_100001686944768_62773_2694901_s.jpg" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;">Unaweza ukasema ni vinyonyo(danganya) kama ambavyo waswahili wengi wamezoweya kuita, lakini ukweli kwamba hizo zote ni rangi tu ila jina halisi ni kondomu ( mipira ya kiume) ambayo jamii imekuwa ikitumia kwa ajili ya kukidhi mahitaji yao ya kimwili. Ingawaje watu wengi wamekuwa wakidhani kwamba kondomu ni kinga halisi ya maambukizi ya virusi vya ukimwi.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;">kitu cha msingi ni kujiuliza kama kweli kondomu zinasaidia kupunguza maambukizi ya virusi vya ukimwi kwa nini ukimwi unaongezeka kwa kasi kubwa nchini, huku kondomu zikiwa zimepewa majina na hadhi tofauti kulingana  na mahitaji ya mtumiaji mwenyewe.kitu kingine ni jambo la msingi kama mtu ataweza kufikiria kwamba kondumu ipo kwa ajili ya uzazi wa mpango tu na sio kwa ajili ya kupunguza maambukizi ya ukimwi .</div>

Je kweli KONDOM zinasaidia kupunguza maambukizi ya ukimwi?

Unaweza ukasema ni vinyonyo(danganya) kama ambavyo waswahili wengi wamezoweya kuita, lakini ukweli kwamba hizo zote ni rangi tu ila jina hal...

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Vurugu Uingereza

<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-39s0UyyuJ_w/TkR1gcQnc2I/AAAAAAAAAnA/l58z7nPaptA/s1600/220px-Burning_car_after_Manchester_riots.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" naa="true" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-39s0UyyuJ_w/TkR1gcQnc2I/AAAAAAAAAnA/l58z7nPaptA/s1600/220px-Burning_car_after_Manchester_riots.jpg" /></a></div> Gari ambayo imechomwa moto na waandamanaji wakipinga kuuliwa kwa Mark ikiteketea katika jiji la Manchester-Uingereza<br /> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-AEhgNn0xHBQ/TkR1iT3WjeI/AAAAAAAAAnE/PVcyK9COjnQ/s1600/300px-Carpetright_store_after_Tottenham_riots.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" naa="true" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-AEhgNn0xHBQ/TkR1iT3WjeI/AAAAAAAAAnE/PVcyK9COjnQ/s1600/300px-Carpetright_store_after_Tottenham_riots.jpg" /></a></div> Kikosi cha moto na uokozi cha Tottenham wakimaliza kuzima moto ulioteketeza jengo la duka la stoo kaskazini mwa Uingereza<br /> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-Ssuxa7dvsT4/TkR1l7BfrRI/AAAAAAAAAnI/TY_mXPhtUh8/s1600/Mark-Duggan-007.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="192" naa="true" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-Ssuxa7dvsT4/TkR1l7BfrRI/AAAAAAAAAnI/TY_mXPhtUh8/s320/Mark-Duggan-007.jpg" width="320" /></a></div>On 4 August 2011 Mark Duggan (29) ameuwawa kwa kupigwa risasi na polisi wa Tottenham -Uingereza Agosti 4, 2011, wakati jeshi hilo likiwa katika mfululizo wa kazi zao za kila siku katika msako wa kuwawinda wauza madawa ya kulevya katika jiji hilo. Inasemekana kwamba Mark ni miongoni mwa watu mashuri katika uuzaji wa madawa ya kulevya nchini humo

Vurugu Uingereza

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AFRICAN POETS NEEDED FOR SOUTHBANK CENTRE’S POETRY PARNASSUS

<div style="text-align: justify;">Nominations have now closed for Southbank Centre’s Poetry Parnassus – set to be the largest poetry festival ever staged in the UK, but although over 1,500 nominations have been received, more African poets are still needed. There have been no nominations for poets from: Algeria, Benin, Botswana, Burkina Faso, Burundi, Central African Republic, Equatorial Guinea, Eritrea, Gabon, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Kenya, Lesotho, Libya, Madagascar, Mali, Mauritania, Mauritius, Mozambique, Namibia, Niger, Rwanda, Sao Tome and Principe, Seychelles, Swaziland, Tanzania, Togo, Tunisia or Zambia.</div><div style="text-align: justify;">There have only been a few nominations for poets from: Angola, Cameroon, Cape Verdi, Chad, Comoros, Congo, Democratic Republic of Congo, Egypt, Ethiopia, Gambia, Ghana, Ivory Coast (Cote-d’Ivoire), Senegal, Sierra Leone, Somalia, Sudan, Uganda and Zimbabwe.</div><div style="text-align: justify;">About Poetry Parnassus</div><div style="text-align: justify;">205 poets, one from each competing Olympic nation, will come to Southbank Centre for the week-long celebratory gathering from 26 June – 2 July 2012 as part of the finale of the Cultural Olympiad; the London 2012 Festival. This hugely ambitious Southbank Centre project, led by Artistic Director Jude Kelly and Artist in Residence Simon Armitage, will include readings, workshops and a final gala event with all the poets. Every poet will also contribute a poem in their own language to be published in The World Record, a book which will champion translation and be housed in the Southbank Centre’s Saison Poetry Library.</div><div style="text-align: justify;">Jude Kelly, Southbank Centre Artistic Director said:</div><div style="text-align: justify;">‘Poetry Parnassus will be a landmark event in the Cultural Olympiad – a week-long gathering of poets, for poetry’s sake, to celebrate language, diversity and a sense of global togetherness. By bringing poets to London from Samoa to Senegal, Tonga to Azerbaijan we go back to the roots of Poetry International, the festival that Ted Hughes and Patrick Garland launched at the Royal Festival Hall in 1967, to address notions of free speech, community and peace through poetry.’</div><div style="text-align: justify;">Simon Armitage, Southbank Centre Artist in Residence said:</div><div style="text-align: justify;">“Southbank Centre’s Poetry Parnassus draws inspiration from Mount Parnassus in Greece – one of poetry’s spiritual and mythical heartlands, the home of the lyricist Orpheus and the dwelling place of the poetic Muses. My hunch is that this will be the biggest poetry event ever - a truly global coming together of poets and a monumental poetic happening worthy of the spirit and history of the Olympics themselves.” Members of the public can nominate African poets via the weblink below, between now and 14 August 2011. A panel including Simon Armitage will then shortlist and the final selection of poets will be announced in spring 2012.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /> </div>

AFRICAN POETS NEEDED FOR SOUTHBANK CENTRE’S POETRY PARNASSUS

Nominations have now closed for Southbank Centre’s Poetry Parnassus – set to be the largest poetry festival ever staged in the UK, but altho...

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PROFESSIONAL SHORT COURSES IN TELEVISION AND FILM PRODUCTION

<div style="text-align: justify;">September 2011 – Editing & DVD Authoring Short Course</div><div style="text-align: justify;"></div><div style="text-align: justify;">2-Weeks Final Cut Editing & Pro DVD Authoring Short Course: Monday 19 September – Friday 30 September 2011 (inclusive).  The Course Fee: Kshs90,000/- or US$1,100.00 October/November 2011 - Production Short Course 3-Weeks Camera, Sound, Lighting & Editing Production Short Course: Monday 17 October – Friday 4 November 2011 (inclusive)The Course Fee: Kshs150,000/- or US$1830.00</div><div style="text-align: justify;">Note: </div><div style="text-align: justify;">Please feel free to circulate this information to friends on your mailing list whom you feel would benefit from these courses.The maximum number of students that will be enrolled in the courses are 12. Enrolment is on first-come-first-served payment basis. Payments in cash, direct bank transfer or cheque made out to The Mohamed Amin Foundation will be duly receipted.Candidates outside Kenya/Nairobi & those who wish to pay by direct bank transfer should request our banking details  by contacting us on the email below Short Course Coordinator</div><br /> The <a href="http://www.moforce.com/">Mohamed Amin Foundation</a><br /> Email: mofo2@iconnect.co.ke<br /> Mobile:0727532089

PROFESSIONAL SHORT COURSES IN TELEVISION AND FILM PRODUCTION

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FICCI’s Agribusiness Delegation from India is Visiting Tanzania

<span style="font-size: small;"> <div style="text-align: justify;">A 32-member Agri-business delegation sponsored by <a href="http://www.economictimes.indiatimes.com/news/news">Federation</a> of Indian Chamber of Commerce & Industry will be arriving in Dar es Salaam on 15</div><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><strong>India, Japan Implement Economic Pact, </strong><br /> <div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Calibri,Calibri; font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Calibri,Calibri; font-size: small;">India and Japan have implemented a comprehensive economic partnership agreement (CEPA), aiming to provide greater access to each other's markets and almost double the bilateral trade by 2014. The two countries had signed the CEPA Feb 16 in Tokyo and diplomatic notes were exchanged June 30. The deal would allow India to use Japanese investments, technology and management practices. Japan has scrapped import duties on 87 percent of goods that it imports from India with immediate effect while India has dropped tariffs on 17.4 percent of goods that it imports from Japan</span></span></div><span style="font-family: Calibri,Calibri; font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Calibri,Calibri; font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><strong>Handicrafts Exports Up 29% in July, </strong><br /> <div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Calibri,Calibri; font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Calibri,Calibri; font-size: small;">Handicrafts exports jumped by about 29 per cent year-on-year to USD 155 million in July on the back of rise in demand not only from western markets, but also from new markets like Middle East and Latin America. The exports stood at USD 120 million in July last fiscal. The US and Europe together account for about 60 per cent of the country's total handicrafts shipments. During April-July 2011-12, the handicrafts exports grew by 20.5 per cent to USD 711 million year-on-year. Among items that registered the maximum growth in exports were woodwares, which increased 52.8 per cent in July, followed by shawls as artwares which rose by about 49 per cent, imitation jewellery which gained 42 per cent and miscellaneous handicrafts which rose by 32 per cent </span></span></div><span style="font-family: Calibri,Calibri; font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Calibri,Calibri; font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><strong>Bank of Baroda, Andhra Bank and Indian Overseas Bank plan JV Commercial Bank in Malaysia, </strong></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Calibri,Calibri; font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Calibri,Calibri; font-size: small;">A trio of Indian banks, namely Bank of Baroda, Andhra Bank and Indian Overseas Bank plans to open a new joint venture commercial bank in Malaysia. The first branch of the bank will be established in Kuala Lumpur before November this year. BOB is implementing a massive expansion programme this year. It plans to add another 500 branches to its existing network of 3,450 branches in India before the end of this fiscal. BOB has 85 branches and representative offices overseas, it plans to add another 15 branches abroad. The new branches will come up in New Zealand, Kenya, Uganda and Guyana, among other countries </span></span></div></span><span style="font-family: Calibri,Calibri; font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: Calibri,Calibri; font-size: medium;"><strong>PTI</strong> </span></span></span></span></span><span style="font-family: Calibri,Calibri; font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: Calibri,Calibri; font-size: medium;"><strong>PTI</strong> </span></span></span></span></span><span style="font-family: Calibri,Calibri; font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: Calibri,Calibri; font-size: medium;"><strong>IANS </strong></span></span></span></span><span style="font-size: xx-small;">th </span><span style="font-size: small;">August. On 16</span><span style="font-size: xx-small;">th </span><span style="font-size: small;">August, a round table discussion is being organized at the Golden Tulip Hotel which will start by an address by the High Commissioner at 9 a.m. Registration of participants will start at 8.a.m. onwards. After working lunch, there will be Business-to-Business meet. Local Chamber of Commerce and companies working in the agricultural sector will be taking </span>

FICCI’s Agribusiness Delegation from India is Visiting Tanzania

A 32-member Agri-business delegation sponsored by Federation of Indian Chamber of Commerce & Industry will be arriving in Dar es Salaa...

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Ujumbe wa UN Women watembelea Mtegani Fm Radio 91.9 iliyopo Mkunduchi wilaya ya Kusini Zanzibar

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Ujumbe wa UN Women watembelea Mtegani Fm Radio 91.9 iliyopo Mkunduchi wilaya ya Kusini Zanzibar

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6th Lola Kenya Screen Presents Films for Enjoyment, Learning and Participation in the 21st Century

<div style="text-align: justify;">The Nairobi-based Lola Kenya Screen audiovisual media festival, skill-development mentorship programme and market for children and youth in eastern Africa has on July 12, 2011 released the film line up for the August 8-13, 2011 event. It is held on the theme, “Films for Enjoyment, Learning and Participation in the 21st Century”.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"></div><div style="text-align: justify;">In its sixth year, Lola Kenya Screen received more than 300 films from 102 countries from which 150 have been selected following a rigorous viewing selection process by children, youth, mass communication students, journalists, critics and parents. Fewer films shall be programmed than ever before following the introduction of media literacy seminars in 2010 and film discussion at the end of every film in 2011. </div><div style="text-align: justify;">The selected films shall be presented in 10 categories, including the 6th Golden Mboni Award for the best children’s film, the 3rd 14-Plus Award for the best youth film, the 5th Kids for Kids Festival Africa, Films by Students, Films by Children for Children, Eastern Africa Prism, World Panorama, and three special focus areas: Documentary, Busan International Kids’ Festival (BIKI, South Korea) and George Washington University’s Documentary Centre (USA) productions.</div><div style="text-align: justify;">The battle for the best children’s film is likely to be between Italy and Spain that have two entries each in the 10-film contest that also has three entries from Kenya, and one each from Belgium, Palestine, and USA. Indeed, the hardest contest is likely to be waged over the Golden Mboni Award where Kenya is, for the first time in the 6-year history of the festival, well represented. The United States and Belgium are unlikely to go down. But if they do, the victor will be left with wounds that will take a while to heal. </div><div style="text-align: justify;">Spain is again well represented in the 14-Plus Award for the best youth film contest in which Madagascar, Namibia, Kenya and France shall also be hoping to pip the others for the prize. The contest has 10 films.</div><div style="text-align: justify;">All the 10 categories have particularly strong films that will keep the audience busy and discussing them over the entire six-day of the festival that shall be held in both the Nairobi City Centre and the densely populated Eastlands residential neigbourhood. </div><div style="text-align: justify;">Besides film shows, Lola Kenya Screen shall host a two-day roundtable for the independent audiovisual media producers. Motivational speakers drawn from the fledgling audiovisual media sector are also expected to interact with children and youth. </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /> </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /> </div>

6th Lola Kenya Screen Presents Films for Enjoyment, Learning and Participation in the 21st Century

The Nairobi-based Lola Kenya Screen audiovisual media festival, skill-development mentorship programme and market for children and youth in ...

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Director of Investment Mr Raymond Mbilinyi Promotion and Acting Executive Director of Tanzania Investment Centre

<div style="text-align: justify;">On behalf of the UN systems in Tanzania, the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD), and my own, I welcome you all to the launch of the 2011 edition of the World Investment Report. </div><div style="text-align: justify;"></div><div style="text-align: justify;">This year’s Report focuses on Non-Equity Modes of international production and development. These modes, with growing interest by transnational corporations (TNCs), present opportunities for developing and transition economies to integrate more closely into the rapidly evolving global economy, to strengthen the potential of their home-grown productive capacity, and to improve their international competitiveness. </div><div style="text-align: justify;">The Report, examines recent trends in FDI flows and policies and forecasts full recovery to the pre-crisis levels in the next two years, barring any unexpected global economic shocks . This recovery will present both a huge opportunity and a challenge for policymakers in all countries. Above all, the development community will particularly be challenged to support these countries to realize the potential from FDIs and derive the benefits from the Non Equity Modes of production, to indeed alleviate poverty and contribute to the attainment of the Millennium Development Goals. </div><div style="text-align: justify;">The report highlights that in today’s world, policies aimed at improving the integration of developing economies into global value chains must look beyond FDI and trade. It argues that Policymakers need to consider non-equity modes (NEMs) of international production. NEM activities can be found throughout the global value chains of TNCs. They include contract manufacturing, services outsourcing, contract farming, franchising, licensing, management contracts, and other types of contractual relationship through which Transnational Corporations (TNCs) coordinate the activities of host-country firms, without owning a stake in those firms. </div><div style="text-align: justify;">The Report for example shows that Cross-border Non Equity Mode activities worldwide are significant and particularly important in developing countries, as it is estimated to have generated over $2 trillion of sales in 2009. Contract manufacturing and services outsourcing accounted for $1.1–1.3 trillion, franchising $330–350 billion, licensing $340–360 billion, and management contracts around $100 billion. In most cases, NEMs are growing more rapidly than the industries in which they operate and have yielded significant benefits in terms of employment creation, promoting value addition and export development as well as skills and technology transfer.</div><div style="text-align: justify;">Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) is a key component of the world's growth engine and if well coupled with a thriving domestic investment can indeed provide a unique driver for economic transformation. . However, the post-crisis recovery in FDI has been slow to take off and is unevenly spread, with especially the poorest countries still in "FDI recession". Many uncertainties still haunt investors in the global economy. National and international policy developments are sending mixed messages to the investment community. Investment policymaking is becoming more complex, with international production evolving and with blurring boundaries between FDI, non-equity modes and trade.</div><div style="text-align: justify;">The growth of NEMs poses new challenges but also creates new opportunities for the further integration of developing economies into the global economy. The World Investment Report 2011 aims to help developing-country policymakers and the international development community navigate through those challenges and capitalize on the opportunities for their development gains. It presents a couple of areas for policy action to maximize development benefits from NEMs, among which is the integration of NEM policies in national strategies, strengthening domestic productive capacities and creating an enabling legal and institutional framework for their thrival. The least developed countries especially from Africa may need to invest more in these aspects to stimulate more of the NEMs and compensate the relatively poor trends in the FDI, while bearing in mind and taking measures to address any associated risks and negative consequences.</div><div style="text-align: justify;">With these few opening remarks, let me invite our Guest of Honour who will give us a more concrete overview of the report and what it means in the Tanzania context. </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /> </div>

Director of Investment Mr Raymond Mbilinyi Promotion and Acting Executive Director of Tanzania Investment Centre

On behalf of the UN systems in Tanzania, the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD), and my own, I welcome you all to t...

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RECENT RISE IN INVESTMENT RESTRICTIONS AND REVIEW PROCEDURES INCREASES RISK OF PROTECTIONISM,

<div style="text-align: justify;">Investment promotion and facilitation have remained the dominant element in recent national investment policies, UNCTAD's World Investment Report 2011 (WIR11) says. But the report warns that the risk of investment protectionism has increased as restrictive investment measures and administrative procedures have accumulated over the past few years.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"></div><div style="text-align: justify;">The WIR11, released today, is subtitled "Non-Equity Modes of International Production and Development".</div><div style="text-align: justify;">Investment policies increasingly interact with industrial policy strategies, and are more and more shaped by voluntary corporate social responsibility standards, the report says. At the same time, the network of international investment agreements is growing but questions remain about the network’s coverage of the universe of investment relationships and its effectiveness in attracting development-enhancing foreign investment. All of this makes the investment landscape complex and difficult to navigate.</div><div style="text-align: justify;">The accumulation of national investment restrictions and review procedures increases risk of protectionism</div><div style="text-align: justify;">The WIR identifies 149 investment policy measures adopted by 74 economies in 2010. Investment promotion and facilitation continued to be dominant in many countries, but the trend in recent years towards an increase of investment restrictions and administrative procedures has persisted. Almost one third of these 149 policy measures introduced new restrictions or regulations relevant to foreign direct investment (FDI), showing a slight increase as compared with 2009 (figure 1). Although still a minority, such restrictive measures have accumulated over the past few years and their continued upward trend, as well as stricter review procedures for FDI entry, has increased the risk of investment protectionism, says UNCTAD. </div><div style="text-align: justify;">The regime of international investment agreements (IIAs) is at a crossroads </div><div style="text-align: justify;">With a total of 178 new IIAs in 2010 (3 new treaties per week on average), the IIA universe had reached 6,092 agreements at the end of the year (figure 2). With thousands of treaties, many on-going negotiations, and multiple dispute-settlement mechanisms, today's IIA regime has come close to a point where it is too big and too complex to handle for Governments and investors alike, yet remains inadequate to cover all possible bilateral investment relationships and all global FDI stock (which would require another 14,100 bilateral treaties and additional coverage of the currently unprotected one-third of FDI stock). This raises questions about the impact of the IIA regime and its effectiveness for promoting and protecting investment, and about how to ensure that IIAs deliver on their development potential. Accordingly, the policy discourse about the future orientation of the IIA regime and its development impact is intensifying at national and international levels, the report says. </div><div style="text-align: justify;">Investment policies increasingly interact with industrial policies</div><div style="text-align: justify;">Many countries have opted for more pro-active industrial policies in recent years. As a result, investment policies increasingly interact with industrial development strategies, nationally and internationally. The challenge is to manage this interaction so that the two policies work together for development, the report says. </div><div style="text-align: justify;">The investment policy landscape is influenced more and more by a myriad of voluntary corporate social responsibility (CSR) standards </div><div style="text-align: justify;">In addition to standards developed by international organizations, there are currently dozens of international multi-stakeholder initiatives, hundreds of industry association initiatives, and thousands of individual company codes, This proliferation of non-binding CSR standards in recent years has made them ever more important for FDI, the report notes. </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /> </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /> </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /> </div>

RECENT RISE IN INVESTMENT RESTRICTIONS AND REVIEW PROCEDURES INCREASES RISK OF PROTECTIONISM,

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FOREIGN DIRECT INVESTMENT TO AFRICA CONTINUES TO FALL, UNCTAD SURVEY REPORTS; INTRAREGIONAL FLOWS YET TO REALIZE THEIR POTENTIAL

<div style="text-align: justify;">Flows of foreign direct investment (FDI) to Africa fell by 9 per cent in 2010, UNCTAD’s annual investment survey reports.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"></div><div style="text-align: justify;">The World Investment Report 2011 (WIR11) says total FDI inflows to Africa for the year came to $55 billon, or 10 per cent of total FDI inflows to developing countries. Africa’s share among developing countries declined from 12 per cent in 2009. FDI to Africa’s primary sector, especially the oil industry, continued to dominate FDI flows to the continent.</div><div style="text-align: justify;">WIR11, subtitled “Non-equity modes of international production and development”, was released today.</div><div style="text-align: justify;">Among the continent’s subregions, FDI inflows to North Africa, which account for roughly one third of the total African FDI, fell for the second year running to $17 billion, but the rate of decline was much reduced and the picture uneven within the subregion. For example, inflows to the Libyan Arab Jamahiriya increased by over 40 per cent in 2010 to $3.8 billion, but this rebound seems to be short-lived, given the current political situation in the country. </div><div style="text-align: justify;">FDI inflows also declined in the countries of West Africa – recipients of about one fifth ($11 billion) of the continent’s total flows. Regulatory concerns in the oil industry contributed to the 29 per cent fall in inflows to Nigeria, which still accounted for more than half of the inflows to the subregion. The emerging oil industry pulled inflows to Ghana and Niger to record levels, at $2.5 billion and $947 million, respectively. </div><div style="text-align: justify;">In Central Africa and East Africa, inflows of FDI increased in 2010 to reach $8.0 billion and $3.7 billion, respectively. The portion going to the larger recipients in Central Africa (Chad, Congo, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Equatorial Guinea, and Gabon) was mostly due to oil-related investments. The only significant instance of FDI in non-primary sectors was investment in telecommunications in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. East Africa’s increase was modest (2.5 per cent), as inflows to the subregion’s largest recipient, Madagascar, fell substantially (-19 per cent). </div><div style="text-align: justify;">Inflows to Southern Africa decreased by 24 per cent to $15 billion, although the subregion accounted for more than one quarter of the African total. The second largest recipient in the subregion, South Africa , saw its inflows fall by over 70 per cent to $1.6 billion, a level amounting to only one sixth of the peak recorded in the country in 2008. Inflows to the continent’ largest recipient, Angola, also declined substantially. One of the problems Angola’s oil industry faces is that its oil production has exceeded the quota allocated by the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries.</div><div style="text-align: justify;">Judging by data on greenfield investments over the first four months of 2011, FDI inflows to North Africa are likely to decline, the report says. No major cross-border mergers and acquisitions (M&As) appear to have occurred over the first five months. While the continuing pursuit of natural resources, in particular by Asian transnational corporations, is likely to sustain FDI flows to sub-Saharan Africa in 2011, it could well be another challenging year for the continent as a whole, the report says.</div><div style="text-align: justify;">Over the long term, investment flows with greater development impacts are likely to come from neighbouring countries, the report predicts. Although there is some evidence that intraregional FDI is beginning to emerge in non-natural-resource-related industries, intraregional FDI flows in Africa are still small, only $46 billion, or 5 per cent of total African FDI projects during 2003–2010 (table 1). Harmonization of Africa’s regional trade agreements and accelerated and closely coordinated planning with respect to FDI would help Africa reach its intraregional FDI potential, the report contends.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /> </div>

FOREIGN DIRECT INVESTMENT TO AFRICA CONTINUES TO FALL, UNCTAD SURVEY REPORTS; INTRAREGIONAL FLOWS YET TO REALIZE THEIR POTENTIAL

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GLOBAL FOREIGN DIRECT INVESTMENT ROSE 5% IN 2010, THOUGH STILL 37% BELOW 2007 PEAK, UNCTAD REPORT SAYS; FURTHER GROWTH SEEN FOR 2011

<div style="text-align: justify;">Global foreign direct investment (FDI) inflows rose 5 per cent to $1.24 trillion in 2010, UNCTAD’s annual investment survey reports. The study says, however, that FDI flows at the end of the year were still some 15 per cent below their pre-crisis average and nearly 37 per cent below their peak in 2007. Overall, investment continues to lag behind recoveries in global industrial output and world trade, which are already back to their pre-crisis levels. The World Investment Report 2011 (WIR11), subtitled “Non-equity modes of international production and development”, was released today.</div><div style="text-align: justify;">UNCTAD predicts in this report that the recovery of FDI flows will continue in 2011 and will reach a total of some $1.4 to $1.6 trillion, thus returning to the pre-crisis average. Thereafter, flows are forecast to rise to $1.7 trillion in 2012 and $1.9 trillion in 2013 (figure 2). The record level of cash holdings, low rates of debt financing and rising stock market valuations of transnational corporations (TNCs) should encourage them to expand overseas, the report says. On the recipients’ side, ongoing corporate and industrial restructuring, privatizations resulting from fiscal rebalancing efforts and unwinding of state support programmes, and the growth of emerging economies should create new investment opportunities. </div><div style="text-align: justify;">However, the post-crisis business environment is still beset by uncertainties. Risk factors such as the unpredictability of global economic governance, a possible widespread sovereign debt crisis, and fiscal and financial sector imbalances in some developed countries, as well as rising inflation and signs of overheating in major emerging market economies, may yet derail the FDI recovery.In 2010, the rise of emerging economies as new powerhouses of FDI became more apparent. Developing countries and transition economies absorbed more than half of global FDI inflows for the first time . As international production and, more recently, the weight of global consumption shift towards developing and transition economies, both efficiency-seeking and market-seeking projects in those economies are on the increase. Half of the top 20 host economies for FDI in 2010 were developing and transition economies. Their outward FDI also rose sharply in 2010, climbing by 21 per cent. These economies now account for 29 per cent of global FDI outflows. Six developing and transition economies were among the top 20 investors. </div><div style="text-align: justify;">Despite the emergence of certain developing countries, FDI flows continued to decline in some of the poorest regions of the world. Flows to the Africa and South Asia, as well as to least developed countries, landlocked developing countries and small island developing States fell in 2010.</div><div style="text-align: justify;">In terms of sectoral patterns, FDI in services continued its downward path in 2010. All the main service industries (business services, finance, utilities, and transport and communications) saw FDI flows fall, though at different speeds. FDI flows to the financial industry experienced one of the sharpest declines. The share of foreign investment channelled to manufacturing increased, meanwhile, and accounted for almost half of all FDI projects – cross-border mergers and acquisitions and greenfield projects, which are types of manufacturing new to a country or region. Within manufacturing, flows fell in business-cycle-sensitive industries such as metals and electronics. The chemical industry, including pharmaceuticals, remained resilient through the crisis, while industries such as food, beverages and tobacco, textile and garments, and automobiles, recovered in 2010. FDI channelled to extractive industries, a sector relatively unaffected by the crisis, declined, despite the growing demand for raw materials and energy resources.</div><div style="text-align: justify;">The importance of TNCs to the global economy can be gauged from the indicators of international production, which showed gains in 2010 (table 2). UNCTAD estimates that sales and value added of foreign affiliates around the world reached $33 trillion and $7 trillion, respectively, in 2010. Their exports amounted to more than $6 trillion, about one third of total global exports. Worldwide TNC operations, both at home and abroad, generated value added of approximately $16 trillion in 2010 – about a quarter of world gross domestic product.</div><div style="text-align: justify;">Among the 100 largest non-financial TNCs, 19 are state-owned. Today, there are at least 650 state-owned TNCs with an estimated 8,500 foreign affiliates. While relatively small in number –less than 1 per cent of all TNCs – they undertook FDI estimated at $146 billion in 2010, accounting for about 11 per cent of the global flows. Developing and transition economies are home to the majority of these firms (56 per cent), although developed countries maintain a significant number of state-owned TNCs. In contrast to the widely held perception that state-owned TNCs are largely concentrated in the primary sector (8.6 per cent), they are present in diverse industries, particularly in the services sector. From 2003 through 2010, FDI projects by state-owned TNCs made up an average of 32 per cent of total outflows from developing countries. The number of megadeals for which developing country state-owned TNCs have been responsible in the past five years is indicative of their importance. Four of six FDI projects with a value of more than $10 billion (one merger and acquisition and three greenfield investment projects) were undertaken by developing country state-owned TNCs. While there are no official statistics on the FDI stock controlled by state-owned TNCs, a rough estimate suggests that their share of global outward stock was no less than 6 per cent in 2010.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /> </div>

GLOBAL FOREIGN DIRECT INVESTMENT ROSE 5% IN 2010, THOUGH STILL 37% BELOW 2007 PEAK, UNCTAD REPORT SAYS; FURTHER GROWTH SEEN FOR 2011

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INVESTMENTS IN LATIN AMERICAN AND THE CARIBBEAN ARE DRIVEN BY DEVELOPING ASIAN FIRMS IN THE OIL AND GAS SECTOR, STUDY SAYS

<div style="text-align: justify;">Foreign direct investment (FDI) flows to Latin America and the Caribbean increased by 13 per cent in 2010 to reach $159 billion, UNCTAD’s annual investment survey reports. The strongest increase was registered in South America, where FDI rose by 56 per cent to $86 billion, with Brazil alone accounting for 56 per cent of this amount. Inflows to Central America climbed 20 per cent to $25 billion, of which Mexico attracted $19 billion. Flows to the Caribbean decreased by 26 per cent, to $48 billion, of which offshore financial centres represented 95 per cent, the World Investment Report 2011 (WIR11) reveals. </div><div style="text-align: justify;">The report, subtitled “Non-equity modes of international production and development”, was released today.</div><div style="text-align: justify;">FDI outflows from Latin America and the Caribbean increased by 67 per cent to $76 billion in 2010, the biggest surge among the world's economic regions, the report says. The rebound was due to strong increases registered by Brazil and Mexico, the region's two principal outward investors . </div><div style="text-align: justify;">Growth of both inflows and outflows stemmed from respective surges in cross-border merger and acquisition (M&A) sales and purchases. Latin America and the Caribbean witnessed a sudden increase in cross-border M&A sales from negative values (because of divestment) in 2009 to $29 billion in 2010, the highest level in the region since 2000. This shows a renewed interest by foreign firms in the acquisition of Latin American enterprises after a decade of sluggish cross-border M&A activity in the region. However, most of these acquisitions were </div><div style="text-align: justify;">undertaken by developing Asian transnational corporations (TNCs), mainly from China and India, in the oil and gas extractive industry in South America. </div><div style="text-align: justify;"></div><div style="text-align: justify;">On the purchase side, the region’s TNCs, bolstered by strong economic growth at home, have increased their investments abroad, in particular in developed countries where investment opportunities have arisen in the aftermath of the global financial crisis. Brazilian companies such as Vale, Gerdau, Camargo Correa, Votorantim, Petrobras and Braskem have undertaken acquisitions in the iron ore, steel, food, cement, chemical, and petroleum refining industries in developed countries. Mexican firms such as Grupo Televisa, Sigma Alimentos, Metalsa and Inmobiliaria Carso have purchased firms in the United States in industries such as media, food, motor vehicles, and services. There also have been some important intraregional acquisitions, the most significant being the $1.9 billion purchase by Grupo Aval (Colombia) of BAC Credomatic, a foreign affiliate in Panama of General Electric Co.’s finance unit.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /> </div>

INVESTMENTS IN LATIN AMERICAN AND THE CARIBBEAN ARE DRIVEN BY DEVELOPING ASIAN FIRMS IN THE OIL AND GAS SECTOR, STUDY SAYS

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Launching of the World Investment Report 2011 “Non-Equity Modes of International Production and Development” – Address by Mr. Raymond Mbilinyi, The Acting Executive Director of Tanzania Investment Centre (TIC) at the UN Offices Dar es Salaam – July 26, 2011

<div style="text-align: justify;">I am indeed very grateful privileged and honored by UNCTAD and the UN System here in Tanzania for giving me the opportunity to launch the World Investment Report 2011 which focuses on “Non-Equity Modes of International Production and Development” These modes, with growing interest by transnational corporations (TNCs), present opportunities for developing and transition economies to integrate more closely into the rapidly evolving global economy, to strengthen the potential of their home-grown productive capacity, and to improve their international competitiveness. </div><div style="text-align: justify;">The Report, as always, also examines recent trends in FDI flows and policies. Global FDI has not yet recovered fully to its pre-crisis level, but seems likely to do so this year. This recovery will represent both a huge opportunity and a challenge for policymakers in all countries. Above all, the challenge for the development community and in particular Tanzania will be to make investment work towards achieving the Millennium Development Goals as outlined in our vision 2025.</div><div style="text-align: justify;">I am happy to note that the timing for this report is coinciding with the launch of The Tanzania Five Years Development Plan (2011/2012 – 2015/2016) by He. Dr. Jakaya Mrisho Kikwete, The President of The United Republic of Tanzania in Dodoma on 7th June 2011. This report is an important tool towards the implementation of the five core priorities of the plan.</div><div style="text-align: justify;">Global foreign direct investment (FDI) flows rose moderately to $1.24 trillion in 2010, but were still 15 per cent below their pre-crisis average. This is in contrast to global industrial output and trade, which were back to pre-crisis levels. UNCTAD estimates that global FDI will recover to its pre-crisis level in 2011, increasing to $1.4–1.6 trillion, and approach its 2007 peak in 2013. This positive scenario holds, barring any unexpected global economic shocks that may arise from a number of risk factors still in play.The slow recovery of FDI flows in 2010 masked starkly divergent trends among regions, sectors and modes of FDI: </div><div style="text-align: justify;">• While East and South-East Asia and Latin America experienced strong growth in FDI inflows (with increases of 34 and 14 per cent, respectively), those to Africa, South Asia, West Asia, and transition economies, as well as those to developed countries as a whole, continued to decline. </div><div style="text-align: justify;">• FDI in manufacturing bounced back in the aftermath of the crisis, while services-sector FDI is still in decline. </div><div style="text-align: justify;">• Cross-border mergers and acquisitions (M&As) are picking up (there value increased by 36 per cent in 2010), yet greenfield projects – which account for the majority of FDI – still fell</div><div style="color: #444444; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: blue; font-size: 14pt;">Here with the discovery of oil <country-region w:st="on"><b>Uganda</b></country-region> has clearly led investment inflows followed by <country-region w:st="on"><place w:st="on">Tanzania</place></country-region>.2010 was notable in that, for the first time, developing and transition economies absorbed more than half of global FDI inflows, some $642 billion or 52 per cent of global FDI flows. As international production and, recently, international consumption shift to developing and transition economies, TNCs are increasingly investing in both efficiency- and market-seeking projects in those countries. However, FDI flows to the poorest regions continued to fall – a matter of grave concern. Africa, least developed countries, landlocked developing countries and small island developing States all experienced declines in FDI flows.</span><span style="font-size: 14pt;"></span></div><div align="justify" style="color: #444444;"><span style="color: blue;"></span></div><div align="justify" style="color: #444444;"><span style="color: blue;">Developing and transition economies also generated nearly 30 per cent of global outflows – a record level at $388 billion – with much of the investment directed to other countries in the South. This reflects the growing confidence and dynamism of emerging-market TNCs and demonstrates the growing importance of these economies as sources of international investment. </span></div><div align="justify"><span style="color: blue;">International production is expanding, with foreign sales, employment and assets of TNCs all increasing. TNCs’ production worldwide generated value-added of approximately $16 trillion in 2010, about a quarter of global GDP. Foreign affiliates of TNCs accounted for more than one-tenth of global GDP and one-third of world exports. Let me now turn to recent policy trends related to FDI. Investment liberalization and promotion remained the dominant element in 2010, with 68 per cent of measures identified in 2010 in a direction more favourable to FDI. However, the risk of investment protectionism has increased as investment-related restrictions and administrative procedures have accumulated over the past years. Almost one-third of measures in 2010 relate to regulation or restriction of FDI, compared to only 2 per cent of measures at the start of the decade.</span></div><div align="justify"><span style="color: black; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 150%;"><span style="color: blue;">As far as international investment policies are concerned, the regime of international investment agreements is at a crossroads. With close to 6,100 treaties, many ongoing negotiations and multiple dispute-settlement mechanisms, it has come close to a point where it is too big and complex to handle for governments and investors alike, yet remains inadequate to cover all possible bilateral investment relationships (which would require a further 14,100 bilateral treaties). The policy discourse about the future orientation of the IIA regime and its development impact is intensifying</span>. </span>Recent years have witnessed a comeback of industrial policies. As a result, these policies increasingly interact with FDI policies. This interaction poses important challenges for making the two policies work together for development. Striking a balance between building stronger domestic productive capacity, on the one hand, and avoiding investment and trade protectionism, on the other hand, is key, as is enhancing international coordination and cooperation. </div><div align="justify"></div><div align="justify">A final important development on the policy front is CSR. The investment policy landscape is influenced more and more by a myriad of voluntary corporate social responsibility (CSR) standards. Governments can maximize development benefits deriving from these standards through appropriate policies, such as harmonizing corporate reporting regulations, providing capacity-building programmes, and integrating CSR standards into international investment regimes<br /> Let me return to the special topic of this year's WIR: non-equity modes of international production.In today’s world, policies aimed at improving the integration of developing economies into global value chains must look beyond FDI and trade. Policymakers need to consider non-equity modes (NEMs) of international production. NEM activities can be found throughout the global value chains of TNCs. They include contract manufacturing, services outsourcing, contract farming, franchising, licensing, management contracts, and other types of contractual relationship through which TNCs coordinate the activities of host-country firms, without owning a stake in those firms. <span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 14pt;"><i>Cross-border NEM activity worldwide is significant and particularly important in developing countries like <country-region w:st="on"><place w:st="on">Tanzania</place></country-region></i></span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 14pt;">. </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 14pt;">It is estimated to have generated over $2 trillion of sales in 2009. Contract manufacturing and services outsourcing accounted for $1.1–1.3 trillion, franchising $330–350 billion, licensing $340–360 billion, and management contracts around $100 billion. In most cases, NEMs are growing more rapidly than the industries in which they operate</span></div><div align="justify"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 14pt;">NEMs can yield significant development benefits. A key advantage of NEMs is that they are flexible arrangements with local firms, with a built-in motive for TNCs to invest in the viability of their partners through dissemination of knowledge, technology and skills. This offers host economies considerable potential for long-term industrial capacity-building through a number of key development impact channels such as employment, value added, export generation and technology acquisition. </span><br /> <div align="justify"></div><div align="justify">NEMs employ an estimated 14–16 million workers in developing countries. Contract manufacturing and services outsourcing in industries such as garments, footwear and electronics account for the bulk of employment generation. NEMs also generate significant value added in developing countries, representing up to 15 per cent of GDP in some economies. Their exports account for 70–80 per cent of global exports in several industries. Overall, NEMs can support long-term industrial development by building productive capacity, including through technology dissemination and domestic enterprise development, and by helping developing countries gain access to global value chains. In Mozambique, for instance, contract farming has led to some 400,000 smallholders participating in global value chains.</div></div><div align="justify">In the sugar Industry in Tanzania, almost 60 per cent of the total feed stock required by Ilovo (TNC from South Africa) is provided by contract farmers. NEMs also pose risks for developing countries. Employment in contract manufacturing can be highly cyclical and easily displaced. The value added contribution of NEMs can appear low if assessed in terms of the value captured out of the total global value chain. And concerns exist that TNCs may use NEMs to circumvent social and environmental standards. For example, working conditions in NEMs based on low-cost labour have often been a concern. Over recent years, corporate social responsibility standards have often focused on the operations of TNCs, which have been pushed to influence their NEM partners through codes of conduct, to promote international labour standards and good management practices.A final concern relates to long-term industrial development. Developing countries need to mitigate the risk of remaining locked into low-value-added activities and becoming overly dependent on TNC-owned technologies and TNC-governed global value chains.Policy matters. Maximizing development benefits from NEMs requires action in four areas. First, NEM policies need to be embedded in overall national development strategies, aligned with trade, investment and technology policies and addressing dependency risks. Second, governments need to support efforts to build domestic productive capacity to ensure the availability of attractive business partners that can qualify as actors in global value chains. Third, promotion and facilitation of NEMs requires a strong enabling legal and institutional framework, as well as the involvement of investment promotion agencies in attracting TNC partners. Finally, policies need to address the negative consequences and risks posed by NEMs by strengthening the bargaining power of local NEM partners, safeguarding competition, protecting labour rights and the environment.Foreign direct investment is a key component of the world's growth engine. However, the post-crisis recovery in FDI has been slow to take off and is unevenly spread, with especially the poorest countries still in "FDI recession". Many uncertainties still haunt investors in the global economy. National and international policy developments are sending mixed messages to the investment community. And investment policymaking is becoming more complex, with international production evolving and with blurring boundaries between FDI, non-equity modes and trade. The growth of NEMs poses new challenges but also creates new opportunities for the further integration of developing economies into the global economy. The World Investment Report 2011 aims to help developing-country policymakers and the international development community navigate those challenges and capitalize on the opportunities for their development gains.I am very happy to report that Investors are still confident with the effort the government of Tanzania is doing to improve the investment climate thus why we have noted the growth of FDI inflows to Tanzania by 8.5 % ( From 645 million USD in 2009 to 700 USD in 2010) contrary to 9.0 % decline experienced by Africa overall 2010 inflows.We need to build the capacity of Domestic Investors to be ready to take advantage of “Non Equity Modes of International Production” for the sustainable investment and our National economic Growth. </div><div align="justify"><br /> </div><div align="justify"><br /> </div><div align="justify"><br /> </div><div align="justify"><br /> </div><div align="justify"><br /> </div>

Launching of the World Investment Report 2011 “Non-Equity Modes of International Production and Development” – Address by Mr. Raymond Mbilinyi, The Acting Executive Director of Tanzania Investment Centre (TIC) at the UN Offices Dar es Salaam – July 26, 2011

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