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  Arusha - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Arusha is the capital of the Arusha Region, located in the north of Tanzania.
Arusha Airport is a small domestic airport in the West of the city.
Arusha's clock tower is supposedly situated at the midpoint between Cairo and Capetown, therefore representing the halfway point between the two terminii of the old British Empire in Africa.
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 Arusha Declaration - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Arusha Declaration was made by Tanzanian President Julius Nyerere on 5 February 1967, outlining the principles of Ujamaa(Nyerere's vision of socialism) to develop the nation's economy.
One important element in the evaluation of the Arusha vision depends on interpretation of the degree of consistency between policies implemented and intentions, as stated in the declaration.
It is ironic that the regional commissioners charged with collectivization of the farms, for "egalitarian" purposes, following the Arusha Declaration enriched themselves at the farmers expense.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Arusha_Declaration   (920 words)

  
 Arusha | CC Africa safaris | Arusha town, Tanzania   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
Arusha is a lush town at an altitude of 1 380 metres above sea level.
The Arusha Declaration National Museum is dedicated to the landmark Tanzanian Uhuru Freedom Movement of the 60s, and affords a fascinating perspective into this crucial period of Tanzania's history.
For epicureans, the Arusha Coffee Lodge is a lovely, scenic place to have a meal, set as it is in the midst of a coffee plantation.
africanadrenalin.co.za /cca/arusha.htm   (197 words)

  
 Africast Global Africa Network- News
Delegates were given a draft Arusha declaration and plan of action on commodities and were expected to discuss and adopt the declaration later on Wednesday or early on Thursday.
The draft declaration asked for WTO consideration of effective and expeditious reduction in subsidies in cotton and sugar apart from announcing that the African countries need flexibility and policy space under the WTO multilateral rules to choose the most effective strategy appropriate to the African situation.
The senior officials from the AU member states who worked out the draft declaration said that achieving the United Nations Millenium Development Goals is dependent upon reaching 70 percent of the world's population living in rural areas and shriving to make a living through commodity production and trade.
news.africast.com /africastv/article.php?newsID=57080   (288 words)

  
 The Arusha Declaration
The Arusha Declaration and the actions relating to public ownership which we took last week were all concerned with ensuring that we can build Socialism in our country.
They are necessary to it, but as the Arusha Declaration states, they could also be the basis for fascism — in other words, for the oppressive extreme of capitalism.
For if the actions taken under the Arusha Declaration are to mean anything to our people then we must accept this basic oneness of man. What matters now is that we should succeed in the work we have undertaken.
hierographics.org /arushadeclaration.htm   (1171 words)

  
 HighBeam Encyclopedia - Arusha   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
The city was the headquarters of the East African Community (founded 1967) until it was disbanded in 1977; the secretariat of the East African Co-operation, which evolved into a new East African Community by 2000, was established there in 1996.
In Jan., 1967, President Julius Nyerere of Tanzania issued the influential Arusha Declaration, which called for socialism, hard work, and self-reliance in Tanzania.
Arusha is the site of an institute devoted to research in tropical pesticides.
www.encyclopedia.com /html/A/Arusha.asp   (261 words)

  
 page5   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
Arusha is the capitol of one of the country’s 25 regions, that is of the Arusha region in Nothern Tanzania.
Arusha was also very important in view of political events: The CCM’s platform remains the Arusha Declaration from 1964.
Arusha was the headquarter of the 1977 collapsed East Africa Community (EAC), which was composed of Kenya, Tanzania and Uganda.
www.bomhardschule.de /ekenywa/page5.html   (249 words)

  
 PANNA: The Arusha Declaration: Persistent Organic Pollutants Out of Africa   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
In July 2002, a landmark meeting was held in Arusha, Tanzania to launch an African campaign to ratify the Stockholm Convention on persistent organic pollutants (POPs).
The document, The IPEN Arusha Declaration on the Elimination of Persistent Organic Pollutants in African Countries, places emphasis on two eminent health threats: the obsolete, deteriorating, and sometimes leaking stockpiles of POPs chemicals throughout Africa, and the prevalence of malaria in Africa and the importance of finding methods other than DDT for its control.
The Arusha Declaration ultimately called for a phase out of incineration as soon as possible, preferably within four years of ratification of the Stockholm Convention, and placed a high priority on development of closed systems technologies with no uncontrolled POPs releases.
www.panna.org /resources/gpc/gpc_200208.12.2.15.dv.html   (800 words)

  
 Issue: Revenue administration and corruption
In reaction, the WCO called for a comprehensive review of the Declaration and its practical implementation in Member administrations, which led to the preparation of the Revised Arusha Declaration - unanimously endorsed by the WCO Council in June 2003.
The Revised Arusha Declaration on Integrity in Customs consists of ten distinct but interrelated elements considered essential for the development and implementation of a comprehensive and sustainable anti-corruption and integrity enhancement program.
In developing the Revised Arusha Declaration the WCO was conscious of the different social, political, and economic circumstances faced by its Member administrations.
www.u4.no /themes/pfm/Revenueissue/revenue4.cfm   (2371 words)

  
 The Duka La Ujamaa
In February 1967, his govern- ment made what is known as the Arusha Declaration whereby Tanzania declared itself a "socialist" country and all the means of production were henceforth to be publicly-owned.
The programme of socialist construction enshrined in the Arusha Declaration will go down in the annals of African history as the decisive clarion call to defend national sovereignty against neo-colonialist counter revolutionary subversion and to move African revolutionary forces towards the full realisation of political, social and economic independence.
The Arusha Declaration comes at an opportune historical period and is a telling blow to the imperialist offensive which swept across Africa last year bringing untold humiliation to African nationhood and human dignity.
hierographics.org /dukalaujamaa.htm   (788 words)

  
 FROM SLAVE SHIP TO SPACE SHIP
Walter Rodney's stay in Tanzania coincided with the promulgation and aftermath of the "Arusha Declaration on Socialism and Self-Reliance".
Arusha is the name of the town where the Declaration occurred in 1967.
Under the Arusha Declaration, Nyerere's policy of socialism brought the national ideology of Tanzania closer to Walter Rodney's own leftist paradigm.
web.africa.ufl.edu /asq/v2/v2i4a2.htm   (2602 words)

  
 REDI News Features   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
With many such meetings resulting in famous “Arusha declarations”, one delegate wondered, “May be we should call this one the Arusha Plan”.
In July 1979, a ministerial meeting was convened at the Arusha International Conference Centre, bringing together what was then known as the Frontline States and donor agencies to ponder ways of enhancing economic liberation and reducing dependency on the then apartheid South Africa.
In 1992, at a summit in the Namibian capital Windhoek, the organisation was transformed, through a Declaration and Treaty, from a “coordinating conference” to a “development community”, that is from SADCC to SADC.
www.sardc.net /Editorial/NewsFeature/04200304.htm   (921 words)

  
 Tanzania
According to Y. Rweyemamu, the Arusha Declaration and Mwongozo saw development not simply as a process of accumulation, that is as increasing the Tanzanian economy's capacity to produce, but as a process of realizing an overall project with self-reliance and socialism as its twin pillars.
The Arusha Declaration laid great stress on the need to gain control of the financing of accumulation by emphasizing the dangers of dependence in these terms: 'Independence cannot be real if a nation depends upon gifts and loans from another for its development...
Prior to the Arusha Declaration, the first priority was to state farms, followed by private capitalism.
www.unu.edu /unupress/unupbooks/uu28ae/uu28ae0o.htm   (3552 words)

  
 Arusha: History
The Arusha Centre (originally the Calgary Development Centre) was incorporated in September of 1972.
Arusha takes its name from the ARUSHA DECLARATION, a set of principles drafted by the governing party of Tanzania in 1967 as a guide toward economic and social development.
As Arusha's objectives evolved and times changed, the nature of the organisation was altered.
www.arusha.org /about/history.html   (584 words)

  
 Julius Nyerere, lifelong learning and informal education
Within the Declaration there was a commitment to raising basic living standards (and an opposition to conspicuous consumption and large private wealth).
In the Declaration of Dar es Salaam Julius Nyerere made a ringing call for adult education to be directed at helping people to help themselves and for it to approached as part of life: 'integrated with life and inseparable from it'.
This book includes The Arusha Declaration; Education for self-reliance; The varied paths to socialism; The purpose is man; and socialism and development.
www.infed.org /thinkers/et-nye.htm   (3614 words)

  
 TZ Vision 2025-TZ Embassy in USA   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
however, that the strategy of the Arusha Declaration did not Sufficiently address the complexity and dynamic character of policies and incentive structures which were necessary to effectively drive the development process.
At the promulgation of the Arusha Declaration, good governance was identified as one of the key prerequisites for attaining the development goals of the Declaration.
Various policies were adopted aiming at attaining rapid transformation of the socioeconomic structure and improving the quality of life of men and women of which sensitization of the society at large for the purpose of realizing effective implementation of these policies was accorded high priority.
www.tanzaniaembassy-us.org /government/vision.html   (5944 words)

  
 Interview
Many people might be wondering about the role of the Arusha Declaration Museum, which is located at the Kaloleni roundabout junction.
Well, it was initially meant to be a community centre but in 1967 the then ruling party- Tanganyika African National Union (TANU), sat here and declared its "Socialism" and "Self Reliance" policy through which all major economic sectors were nationalized.
In1977 President Nyerere declared this to remain a historical archive, thus becoming the region’s first museum.
www.arushatimes.co.tz /2004/21/interview.htm   (465 words)

  
 Heaven on Earth . The Film: Paul Sozigwa Interview | PBS
We wanted everybody to have a share of the wealth of the country and the freedom of the country.” That is basically the source of Arusha Declaration and socialism.
There was the Arusha Declaration code which refused all leaders from accumulating wealth unless they can explain how they get that wealth by work.
That is the Arusha Declaration as it is. It is still there in the constitution.
www.pbs.org /heavenonearth/interviews_sozigwa.html   (4366 words)

  
 : Arusha Times   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
The Arusha Times is a weekly publication for and by the residents of Arusha, Tanzania.
He however cautioned that the implementation of the plan needed a lot of funds and therefore urged the airport authorities and its stakeholders in the country to devise a mechanism through which the private sector could be involved in making the whole plan a success.
The Arusha Times visited the team at their camp on the St. Theresa Catholic Parish grounds on Wednesday last week and found Gordon Ramsey displaying his cooking skills by preparing lunch to over 100 street children under the local Arusha Referral Service for Street Children Project.
www.ntz.info /gen/b00660.html   (7425 words)

  
 Arusha Declaration
With renewed vigour and determination we declare our commitment to continue the fight to put an end to apartheid, the illegal occupation of Namibia and the destabilisation of the neighbouring states.
There is no doubt that the people of Namibia and South Africa, led by SWAPO and the ANC, shall be victorious.
Statement from the ANC Arusha Conference, 1-4 December 1987
www.anc.org.za /ancdocs/history/solidarity/arusha.html   (742 words)

  
 news - Arusha Conference Urges To Bridge Social Divide
Gathered in Arusha, Tanzania, this week at the ‘New Frontiers of Social Policy: Development in a Globalizing World’ international conference, participants emphasized in “The Arusha Statement” that social policy must no longer be an afterthought — to recognize that development policy is always simultaneously economic and social policy.
Johnson was referring to the groundbreaking declaration of Arusha, by which Tanzania, under the leadership of the late head of State Julius Nyerere, established the principles of self-reliance in guiding development strategies.
The Arusha Statement stressed that “citizens need to be involved in the generation of knowledge, the debate on policy formulation, and the implementation of programs.
www.noticias.info /asp/aspComunicados.asp?nid=128708&src=0   (820 words)

  
 ARUSHA TIMES Weekly Newspaper, Arusha, Tanzania.
The accreditation, an initiative of the government and Abbot Fund, improves the capacity of the health facilities so that they are able to do "a holistic and wider range of tests and care for needing clients".
Public transport in Arusha 'City' was brought to a standstill last Sunday when the presidential candidate for the Ruling Chama Cha Mapinduzi (CCM) party, Jakaya Mrisho Kikwete moved into town for the Arusha leg of his countrywide political campaigns.
A six-and-half-year old French boy was last Saturday evening killed by a leopard within the Tarangire National Park, about 115 kilometres southeast of Arusha municipality.
www.arushatimes.co.tz /2005/39   (310 words)

  
 index1
Arusha will be your final stop once again, before you bid farewell to the complex and fascinating country that is Tanzania today.
Arusha town, nestled at the base of towering Mount Meru, has a long history as a trading town.
Being situated close to Arusha town and many surrounding villages, Arusha National Park is also a focal point for community protected area issues.
www.uvm.edu /envnr/rm230/tanzania/index1.html   (1640 words)

  
 Plan of Action on African Commodities Adopted | Common Fund for Commodities
The Ministers of Trade of the AU met recently for the Second Extraordinary Session, in Arusha, Tanzania and convened the African Ministerial Conference on Commodities whereby they adopted the Arusha Declaration and Plan of Action on African Commodities.
In the Declaration and Plan of Action, the ministers recognise the heavy dependence of African economies on trade in commodities on which there is little or no value added as the gist of the African commodity problematique, dependence that is characterised by the contribution of commodities to livelihood, national income, export earnings and employment.
At the consultations, convened on 23 November 2005 in Arusha, Tanzania, Ministers adopted the Arusha Development Benchmarks for the 6th WTO Ministerial Meeting.
www.common-fund.org /?nid=9   (368 words)

  
 monica.html
The Arusha Declaration of 1967, the document which redefined Tanzania's national goals and policies in the postindependence period, emphasized education as a national priority.
Soon after the pronouncement of the Arusha Declaration, Nyerere formulated the program to be known as Education for SelfReliance.
It declared that all Tanzanians would at the very least be literate in Kiswahili by 1975 (just five short years later.
ccat.sas.upenn.edu /afl/monica.html   (1451 words)

  
 Marcus Garvey - The Menace of Special Privilege - History Of The African People
In February 1967, President Julius Nyerere of Tanzania announced the Arusha Declaration, which described the process of national development through self-reliance and frugality, to be practiced in an atmosphere free of ostentation and exploitation.
At the same time, the Declaration clarified President Nyerere's view that the end product of an improving economy must be distributed evenly throughout the population; there could be no priviledged class, no concentration of wealth in the hands of the few, no reverence demanded and received by leadership.
Basic to the Arusha Declaration was a determination not to lose the advantage of independence through the substitution of one privileged group for another.
www.marcusgarvey.com /wmview.php?ArtID=540   (557 words)

  
 The EastAfrican on the Web
When the Arusha Declaration was being drafted, I was invited only as an observer at the meeting of Tanu, which was held in Arusha at the end of January 1967.
The frustrating pace occasioned by inadequate flow of financial resources for development, I guess, made Nyerere opt for the Arusha Declaration hoping that it would be a faster and fairer way to development.
On the promulgation of the Declaration, the second phase of the Nyerere era began.
www.nationmedia.com /eastafrican/17012005/Features/Part170120052Tz.html   (2384 words)

  
 Arusha Declaration   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
Nyerere, who was elected President declared a one-party State in 1965 and embarked on a policy of African Socialism which culminated in the 1967 Arusha Declaration which set the principles of Ujamaa: collective production, equal opportunity and, above all, self-reliance.
The monument, resembling the Uhuru Torch monument in Arusha but smaller in size, was constructed at a spot where the late Mwalimu Nyerere announced compulsory villagisation programme during a visit there in November 1973.
The programme, under which scattered rural people were moved into permanent villagers, was one of the major actions taken by the government after the proclamation of the Arusha Declaration in 1967.
www.ntz.info /gen/n01209.html   (2366 words)

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