NEMC has developed a five-year strategic plan. This Strategy stresses the commitment of the Council to work in partnership with the stakeholders to achieve national goals of improved livelihoods of the citizens and a healthy and diverse environment

The strategic plan establishes the broad framework within which NEMC will develop specific priorities and programs and seeks resources from the government and donor agencies over the next five years. It provides the context for operational plans and annual review plans and budget

This five-year strategic plan has been developed with extensive inputs from Council’s staff and stakeholders. The process also considered nation’s major administrative and institutional changes, economic, social, political changes and reforms taking place. It has focused more on the Tanzania Development Vision 2025, National Environmental Policy, NEM Act, Poverty alleviation strategy, Public service Reform Program 2000-2011 and the gains and lessons learnt from the ILFEMP process.

The situational analysis for developing the strategic plan took hard look within the Council and the environment in which it operates and identified critical issues, to the organization’s future success. Stakeholders’ analysis and SWOT analysis were used as major tools. The situational analysis process reviewed the Council’s internal situation, addressed customers expectations. It also exploit the existing opportunities and challenges and explored areas of improvement and strategies to manage critical issues.

The plan will be operational for five years. It gives major areas of intervention that the Council can afford within the mentioned term. It is basically customers’ demand-driven (stakeholders’ expectations), focusing on things that Council is capable of doing and areas of great need.

NEMC has a key role to play in facilitating the nation achieve the goals. This role is reflected both in Council’s vision and mission.

NEMC’s Vision:
“NEMC envisions to excel in sound environmental management in order to assist the nation fulfill its aspiration for sustainable development”.

NEMC’s Mission:

NEMC’s mission is “to ensure protection of the environment and sustainable exploitation of resources for enhancing the quality of the lives of the people of Tanzania”

The strategic plan outlines the values of the Council; because they influence the way the Council works in order to achieve the intended objectives. The values, aims, and ideas will be put into practice in the manner that will ensure accountability, transparency, continuous improvement and ownership. The values set out are: The integrity and openness in environmental management process, Fair and inclusive system accessible to the entire society, Participation of all people and Capacity building
In addition to setting out Council’s vision and mission, the plan establishes a number of objectives and provides strategies that will guide actions.
The plan will focus on key result areas with respective objectives at different levels and tools for measuring performance.

Based on the strategic plan, identified objectives and corresponding indicators, tracking of performance will be made to ensure effective implementation of the plan through monitoring and evaluation.