National Employment Policy 2008.

The vision of the National employment Policy is to have a society engaged in sustainable decent gainful employment, capable of generating a decent income for the improvement of the quality of life and social well being for Tanzanians, and to reduce poverty as envisaged in the Tanzania Development Vision 2025, as well as addressing the emerging challenges of globalisation. Its Mission is to enhance and develop human capital as well as its utilisation, to assure productive and sustainable employment in the rural and urban economies, by improving knowledge and skills, adequate income earning opportunities and labour market services. While it is acknowledged that positive action has been taken by the Government and other stakeholders towards addressing existing gender inequalities and disparities, these problems still present a serious challenge which prevents the society from realizing its full potential in all aspects of social, economic and political development.
The overall objective is to stimulate national productivity, to attain full, gainful and freely chosen productive employment, in order to reduce unemployment, underemployment rates and enhance labour productivity.
The Specific Objectives are: a) Promote a common understanding of the unemployment problem among key stakeholders and generate collaborative and current efforts towards solving it; b) Enhance skills and competencies for those in the formal and informal sector especially rural areas; c) Promote the goal of decent and productive employment as a national priority and enable all participants in the labour force to gain productive and full employment; d) Promote equal access to employment opportunities and resources endowments for vulnerable groups of women, youth and People with Disabilities (PWDs); e) Put in place conducive and enabling environment to promote growth of the private sector and transformation of the informal sector into formal; f) Ensure income security and social inclusion; g) Safeguard the basic rights and interests of workers in accordance with International Labour Standards; and h) Foster faster economic growth and adequate allocation of investment resources to employment potential sectors such as agriculture, non- farm activities in rural areas, manufacturing and agro-processing industries, and infrastructure and social services sectors; i) Improve collection, analysis and timely disseminations of labour market system at all levels; j) Address crosscutting issues related to environment, gender and HIV/AIDS in employment.