EVENT ;
THE
UNITED REPUBLIC OF TANZANIA
MINISTRY OF EDUCATION
AND VOCATIONAL TRAINING
SADC ESSAY WRITING
COMPETITION FOR SECONDARY SCHOOLS, 2015
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The Southern African Development
Community (SADC) Secretariat has organized the SADC students essay writing
competition for year 2015. The Essay writing competition is intended to
broaden knowledge of the secondary school going population on SADC
activities. The competition is open to form 1 to form 6 students. The
students are required to begin researching on the topic prior writing and
submitting to their Heads of School.
The 34th summit of
Heads of State and Governments deliberated that, the topic for year 2015 be “Leveraging the Region`s Diverse Resources
for sustainable Economic and Social Development through Beneficiation and
Value Addition” Discuss how this would result in Sustainable Economic
Development.
The set of questions below are
meant to guide students when responding to the question above. Thus, on
answering the above question , student should answer all the questions listed
below:
1.
Discuss the abundant natural
resources versus economic development in the SADC Region as a whole
expounding the issues of ownership, monetary values and benefits accrued from
them on annual basis over the past five years?
2.
Has the SADC Region ultimately benefited
from its abundance of natural resources since the complete democratization
with the fall of the Apartheid regime in South Africa in 1994?
3.
Discuss Beneficiation and Value
Addition with concrete proposals for SADC Region on ownership and processing of
mineral/natural resources and how they benefited SADC Citizens if at all and
what can be improved to maximize benefits to the SADC citizenry?
4.
How should the SADC Region go about
implementing the 34th Summit Theme in order for it to benefit the
whole region including some of its Member States that might not have as much
natural resources as the others?
5.
What role should be played in the
operationalisation of the 34th Summit Theme by the non-state
actors in the SADC Region, thus, private sector, Nongovernmental
Organizations, traditional authorities and local communities?
6.
As a secondary school learner, what
do you think should be the education sector`s role in the operationalisation
of the 34th Summit Theme to benefit the education sector in the
whole region?
Heads of schools are supposed to ensure that the
students adhere to the following guidelines:
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The essay should not
be longer than 2000 words and not shorter than 1000 words.
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Where students have
access to computers, they are advised to type their essays and submit both
the soft and hard copies.
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Students who will type
their essays will have to sign and initial the hard copies to make sure that
they have not been altered.
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The essay shall be
written in English language.
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The front page or
cover page will display the name, sex, class, school address and stamp,
Headmistress/Headmaster’s email address, signature and phone no, region,
country.
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The title of the essay should be written in
the cover page (students should not paraphrase the title)
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The handwritten essays
will be written on one side of the A4 paper with double margin of two
centimeters.
Students are expected
to begin writing immediately and submit their essays to their head of school.
The Head of School
will then be expected to constitute a marking panel which will choose best
essays of the school. The panel should go through the essays (Please do not mark the essays) and
choose three essays to be submitted to The Permanent
Secretary Ministry of Education and Vocational
Training not later than 15th April 2015. The national
adjudication will take place from 02nd
to 11th May 2015 in order to get three entries which will be
submitted to the SADC Secretariat in Botswana.
The same Information can be found on the website www.SADC.int, www.foreign.go.tz and www.pmolarg.go.tz Wishing you and your schools best wishes. | ||