Zanzibar recognized as a commercial center in East and even Central Africa. Through decades of her history though many businesses were conducted within the islands including industrial produces, Zanzibar did not introduce an authority to deal with standards and standardization of goods and quality assurance. In 1980s the revolutionary government of Zanzibar introduced trade liberalization policy which provided opportunity for private sector to engage in trade as well as manufacturing services .the imports since then has been increasing overtime with slow rate of manufacturing for local consumption and export .substandard and counterfeit goods flooded in Zanzibar market.
The trend victimized/compromised with development effort in the country. The counter actions are well addressed in both Zanzibar strategy for growth and poverty reduction (MKUZA ii).as the result in 2011,the house of representative enacted Zanzibar standard act ,to establish bureau of standards(ZBS). Towards the end of 2012 ,the ZBS established and now is in operation.
Zanzibar bureau of standard has the vision as follows;-
The Bureau is faced with the challenge of ensuring that the products whether produced in Zanzibar or imported to comply with the developed standards. The primary role of ZBS is to develop, promote and enforce standards in order to ensure health and safety of the consumers while building confidence to manufactures and traders for their goods and services in the markets hence influence economic development of the country. These roles are:-
For the purpose of better carrying on its functions The Zanzibar bureau of standards is required to be guided apart from the law but several regulations. For the time being Zanzibar Bureau of Standards has three regulations thus :-
ZBS has its strategic plan in order to implement this Strategic Plan its requires proper utilization of financial, human and material resources. This demands that staff in the Ministry and other actors will have to take responsibility and be accountable for their use. The work flow and responsibilities model provides the road map for the implementation of the Strategic Plan. The Strategic Plan implementation depends significantly on how the planned activities and outputs are effectively delegated, monitored and evaluated. The Director General as the accounting and authorized officer will be the overall in- charge of the implementation of the Strategic Plan. The targets set in the Strategic plan will be implemented through annual Performance Contracts and work plans.
Our implementation of all of our plan will focus own planned output and comestible
ZBS will ensure continues existence of with improvements. Therefore our system remain dynamic and productive over time the Zanzibar Bureau of Standards is highly availing this opportunity to call all its staff members, stakeholders and all collaborators to provide their maximum support to execute this five years Strategic Plan. In such a way, Zanzibar fulfills its aspiration as stipulated in the vision 2020 and further elaborated in the MKUZA II as a medium term national strategy to realize economic growth and reduce poverty while ensuring quality of products in the market keep human health, safety and environmental friendliness.
For more information Please contact:-
P.O.Box 1136,
Zanzibar,
Tel:+255-24-2232225,
Fax: +255-24-2232225.
E-mail: info@zbs.go.tz,
Web: www.zbs.go.tz
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