Tanzania Natural Resource Forum (TNRF) | Improving Governance and Natural Resource Management in Tanzania

TNRF is a collective civil society-based initiative to improve natural resource management and conservation in Tanzania by addressing fundamental issues of governance. We view the quality and equity of governance as fundamentally determining how natural resources are managed and how they support the livelihoods of Tanzanians and the sustainable economic development of the country.

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Upcoming events

Jul 22
Maajabu film showing and recording in Ololosokwan, Loliondo
Nov 5
Third Annual National Science, Technology and Innovation Conference and Exhibitions
Nov 25
All-Africa Conference on Climate Change in Africa: Consequences, Challenges and Adaptation

Working groups

TNRF has developed 'Working Groups' to enable its members to work on and engage with key natural resource management issues in which they have a direct interest. TNRF facilitates the following 'Working Groups':

Wildlife
(WWG)
A new wildlife working group with a focus on human and wildlife conflict management
Community-based Tourism
(CBT)
Information on Community-based Tourism / Eco-tourism and related news and information resources
Forestry
(F)
Information on the Forestry Working Group, and related news and information resources
Rangelands and Livelihoods
(RL)
Information on the Rangeland and Livelihoods Task Force, and related news and information resources
Community Forums
(CF)
Information on the Community Forums and related news and information resources
Western Tanzania
(WT)
A list-serve for members working in western Tanzania and occasional related news and information resources

Mama Misitu Campaign Signs a Funding Agreement with the Embassy of Finland

Signatories and witnesses to the Mama Misitu agreement

On Tuesday 15th July 2008 at the Finnish Embassy in Dar es Salaam, project partners finalized the signing of the Mama Misitu funding agreement with the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Finland.

The Government of Finland signed an agreement worth Four Hundred Forty Thousand, Five Hundred Seventy Six Euros (€ 440,576) to support the pilot implementation phase of the ‘Mama Misitu' campaign, an initiative that aims to improve forest governance in Tanzania.

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Tanzania Forestry Working Group Calls for "Expressions of Interest" in Designing Independent Forest Monitoring

Following the release of the TRAFFIC report on illegal logging in Tanzania in May 2007, TNRF has secured funding from the Royal Danish Government for designing a programme on Independent Forest Monitoring (IFM). TNRF is acting as the facilitating agent for the design process on behalf of the Tanzania Forest Working Group and in close liaison with the Director of Forestry and Beekeeping.

The objective of the IFM programme is to establish a functioning, broad-based and legitimate IFM process in Tanzania that contributes to good governance, effective forest management and national development with the buy-in of government, civil society, local communities and the private sector.

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Wildlife Division - Non-Consumptive Wildlife Use Consultation Meeting

Getting wildlife management right for National Growth, Poverty Reduction and Conservation

A meeting was held on 28-29th April 2008 between the Wildlife Division, WMA Authorized Associations, Village and District Representatives and the Tourism Industry on Wildlife Conservation Regulations Pertaining to Wildlife Use on Village Lands, and in Game Controlled and Open Areas.

Following the inputs of the Wildlife Division, the report of the two day meeting has now been completed - and it is available in both Swahili and English.

The meeting was divided into two days:

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Collaborative Study Published on Options for Pastoralists to Secure their Livelihoods in Tanzania

Pastoralist livestock grazing

A collaborative study on Options for Pastoralists to Secure their Livelihoods in Tanzania has now been completed.

The joint study is an effort to rise to the challenge given in 2006 to pastoralist stakeholders in Tanzania by the UN Special Rapporteur Professor Rodolfo Stavenhagen on the rights and situation of Indigenous peoples, where he argued on the necessity of developing options for securing livelihoods in the face of loss of basic resources.