TANZANIA has pledged to integrate recommendations from the Summit of the Future into Vision 2050 now being prepared, ensuring its alignment with global objectives on sustainability and inclusivity.

Ambassador Noel Kaganda, the director of multilateral cooperation, said that the two day summit set for Sunday at the United Nations headquarters will seek to forge a new international consensus on improving the present and safeguarding the future.

The Foreign Affairs and East African Cooperation official was speaking at a wrap-up consultation event with stakeholders in Dar es Salaam lately, explaining that the New York event will bring together world leaders to seek an improved understanding of global issues at the moment.

Those involved in preparing the country’s position in the summit of the future include Foreign Affairs, Planning and Investment ministries, thus holding a consultative event to obtain inputs from civil society organizations (CSOs) on the global future they envision.

He said the summit comes at the right time as Tanzania is preparing Vision 2050, making it easier for its recommendations to enrich the discussion on what the Vision ought to look like. Recommendations from the summit could seamlessly be integrated into the national development vision, he asserted.

The consultation event included representatives from CSOs, people with disabilities (PwDs), youth and the wider public, culminating in a special report slated for submission to Foreign Affairs as well as Planning and Investment ministries.

Alignment between the summit and Tanzania’s Vision 2050 offers a unique opportunity to synchronize our national goals with a broader global agenda, the diplomat and administrator noted.

Key inputs from the participants include improvements in education, infrastructure development, healthcare upgrading and environmental sustainability. The need for transparent and accountable government was similarly emphasized.

He lauded UN Tanzania for organizing the multi-stakeholder consultation event as its report will contribute to preparations for the upcoming summit, to which Shabnam Mallick, the UN resident coordinator, hailed contributions of CSOs, including youth-led organizations, underlining the wish for UN agencies to amplify voices of such groups around the world.

UN Tanzania has an inclusive approach involving diverse perspectives from both sides of the Union, he said, with Ibrahim Bakari, the UN Associations of Tanzania (UNAT) executive director, profiled the participatory process.

The consultation events engaged approximately 500 participants who shared their visions for the future, he said, airing the view that the summit will adopt a ‘pact for the future.’

It will be a binding document to be ratified by nations globally as a foundation for building a common future, he added.