Regional Rangelands Congress 2016
The Africa Conservation Centre in collaboration with Institutional Canopy of Conservation (I-CAN) project and South Rift Association of Land Owners (SORALO) organized the Regional Rangelands Congress in Nairobi from 28th to 31st November 2016. The theme of the event is titled “Rangelands health and Security In dynamic landscape”.
Participants including NGOs, international organizations (UN), Academia Universities, National government, Count Government, Community representatives and private sectors have attended this four-day event. TNRF was invited under IUCN project to share cross border experiences.
This congress presented on Pandora and livelihoods, resource governance and management, policy and practices and climate change. TNRF presented on pastoralist food as livelihoods security with cross border natural resource management: Perceptive of Northern Tanzania and Southern Kenya.
About the project: The Tanzania Natural Resource Forum (TNRF) together with the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) is implementing a three year project titled; Participation for changes: Strengthening local participation in policy process to improve food security in the dry lands of East Africa. It aims to ensure the development of appropriate pastoralist policies in East Africa that are based on local participation and knowledge which enhance food security for pastoralist communities. Specifically the project aims to strengthen the engagement and coordination of indigenous pastoral associations in local and national food security related policy processes to promote participation, accountability and transparency in policy formulation and implementation.
In Tanzania, this regional program is implemented by TNRF looking into addressing the underlying constraints to effective natural resource governance and the building of local institutional capacity for sustainable natural resource management, and supports access to markets for the products of sustainably managed dry lands.