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The Local Agenda 21 Planning Guide
Agenda 21 Kanagawa has created positive side effects in terms of the internal decision-making process and systems at the
prefectural government. Primarily, the newly established Kanagawa Council for Global Environmental Protection provides a
framework for unprecedented inter-departmental cooperation on issues like urban greening that cross traditional departmental lines
such as Parks, Construction, and Forestry. Additionally, a system was established in which an individual employee in each section
would be placed in charge of in-house environmental matters, including disseminating information related to the environment,
setting up and maintaining an office paper recycling system, turning off unused lights, etc.
The Agenda 21 Kanagawa process has created new awareness of the need to protect the environment, as well as a sense of common
purpose regarding the environment throughout the community. Furthermore, as the first Local Agenda 21 initiative in Japan, Agenda
21 Kanagawa has become the model for other Local Agenda 21 efforts throughout the country.
Contact
Mr. Kunihiro Asano
Assistant Director
Environmental Policy Section
Department of Environment
Kanagawa Prefectural Government
1 Nihon Oodori, Naka-ku, Yokohama
Kanagawa Prefecture 231, Japan
Tel.: + 81-45/201-1111 (ext. 3737)
Fax: +81-45/201-7908
4.4.3 CASE #12
DAR ES SALAAM, UNITED REPUBLIC OF TANZANIA
COMMUNITY-BASED ACTION PLANNING
Program Name
Sustainable Dar es Salaam Project (SDP)
Background
The city of Dar es Salaam (“Haven of Peace”) is the industrial, commercial, and governmental center of Tanzania, serving the nation
(and several neighboring land-locked countries) through its natural harbor and communications linkages. The city has an estimated
growth rate of 8 percent per annum, one of the highest in sub-Saharan Africa. While rapid growth provides numerous economic
opportunities to the urban population, environmental conditions in Dar es Salaam have deteriorated rapidly, severely limiting
national and city economic development and adversely affecting the health and welfare of the city’s residents.
The environmental and development problems constraining Dar es Salaam include lack of formal access to the water distribution,
solid waste collection and sewage disposal in settlement areas, extensive industrial pollution, unplanned transportation networks and
traffic congestion, environmental health problems, and urban sprawl.
Dar es Salaam faces a number of institutional constraints. Development of the city generally failed to follow the long-term Master
Plan that was created in 1979. There was no institutional mechanism to coordinate the parties involved in managing the city’s
growth, or to provide resources for investments, and no enforcement against those developers who did not comply with the land use
and development standards.
Faced with the rapid growth of the city, a severe lack of financial and institutional capacity in both the Dar es Salaam City Council
(DCC) and central government led to rapidly deteriorating environmental conditions in and around Dar es Salaam, reducing
opportunities to achieve sustainable socio-economic and environmental growth and constraining the development of the city.
Program Description
The Sustainable Dar es Salaam Project (SDP) began in 1992 and addresses critical environmental issues that are constraining the
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