Meeting

Invitation to Meeting on Climate Change and REDD in Tanzania and East Africa

We are pleased to invite you to a Tanzanian Civil Society Forum on Climate Change (Forum CC) and Tanzania Forest Conservation Group (TFCG) organized meeting on:

Climate Change and REDD in Tanzania and East Africa

In late 2009 the Finnish Embassy commissioned the University of Dar es Salaam's Department of Economics to review the Mama Misitu Campaign on Illegal Logging. The evaluation report, submitted in January 2010, assesses the impact of the campaign in relation to its goals.

Please join us in a get-together to remember and celebrate Alan Rodgers at the Little Theatre in Dar es Salaam on 9th April 2010. Alan died on Tuesday 31st March 2009. Please pass this invitation on to anyone who knew or worked with Alan - everyone is very welcome.

A regular meeting of the Tanzania Forestry Working Group - Discussion topics will include the implementation phase of the Mama Misitu Campaign against illegal logging, the next steps for Independent Forest Monitoring in Tanzania after the design phase, and the establishment of a Forest Governance Learning Group in Tanzania.

Pastoralists Livelihoods Task Force shall be having a strtegic options meeting to discuss,harmonise the modalities of operations/mode of engagement withinn PLTF

As a partner in Oikos East Africa's clean energy campaign, this film show is part of a series of community sensitization activities to create awareness about the importance of various forms of clean energy for household benefit and the environment.

Together with Global Network of Religions for Children, ForumCC will host youth from high schools and the University of Dar-es-Salaam will meet for a discussion about climate change. The event is part of the global campaign for a fair deal for developing countries at the international climate change conference in Copenhagen.

The TNRF office will be closed for two weeks for the annual leave.

The TNRF Board will meet for its first quarterly meeting of 2009.

On the 12th hour on the 12th day of the 12th month, millions of people around the globe, from Canada to Australia, India to Brazil will unite again to push for a Real Deal at the Copenhagen Climate Conference.

There is demand from IDGE members for a final IDGE meeting on the MKUKUTA review process in January 2010.

The proposed meeting will focus on:

Based on consultation with several IDGE members (including Policy Forum), there is demand for a final IDGE meeting on MKUKUTA review early next year. The proposed meeting will focus on reviewing indicators and M&E processes, and developing recommendations.

The objectives of the event include bringing together Civil Society Organisations (CSOs) working in Tanzania with climate change issues or on areas of work affected by climate change.

****Please note that this event is sponsored by TAWIRI, the Tanzania Wildlife Institute. For further information or to RSVP, please contact the TAWIRI headquarters (www.tawiri.org).****

The full programme of the TAWIRI conference is downloadable below. Please sign in first to your TNRF account to access the document.

Piyaya Village of Ngorongoro District will be the first village to develop its Tourism Management Plan ss part of the joint project on tourism management planning that emphasizes community benefits (www.tnrf.org/groups/tourism). The working session will build on a series of workshops and evaluative meetings that have taken place in Piyaya over the past six months.

This important event, in the days leading up to UN FCCC CoP 15, will be aimed at profiling and raising awareness on the human impact of climate change in Tanzania. Particular focus will be given to the experiences of small farmers, pastoralist communities, and others that depend on natural resources for their livelihoods.

All TNRF Board members are welcome for the final Board meeting of 2009!

Please contact mazenzele@gmail.com for more information and to confirm your attendance. The conference room accomodates a limited number of people, so please confirm early.

A regular meeting of the CSO Climate Change Forum

A joint meeting of the TFWG and the Forest Governance Learning Group.

For more details please contact c.sianga@tnrf.org.

A regular meeting of the TNRF Steering Committee

IDGE was a "multi-disciplinary, multi-organisational, broad-based discussion group interested in, and concerned about, current and pending national and international environmental and conservation issues.

The partners of the Longido Pastoralist Project, funded by the Belgian Survival Fund, will launch their joint initiative in Longido.  The launch will mark the beginning of a five-year project on food security for the pastoralist community in Longido District to be implemented by TRAIS, Ujamaa Community Resource Trust, Pastoralist Women's Council, Longido Community Development Organization and

The meeting's objective is to kickstart the five years' programe on pastoralists livelihoods in Longido district.Some of the key issues is the agreements and how to operationlise the parnership.

1. Opening
2. Progress of the piloting Mama Misitu project and way forward
3. Progress of IMF and way forward
4. Upcoming issues such as REDD etc.
5. AOB and closing

The strategic plan coordinating comittee is agroup of PLTF partners mandated during our PLTF meeting on 14/08/09 to spearhead the process of Care International faciliated strategic plan on pastoralism and how best the Pastoralist Basket Fund can adress those issues.The process is expected to take two months.

The Pastoralism and Livelihoods Task Force will convene for a regular meeting. Please contact Daniel Ouma at d.ouma@tnrf.org for more information and to confirm your attendance.

The Annual General Meeting is the most important event in TNRF's calendar. It is an annual opportunity for TNRF members to:

The Tanzania Forestry Working Group has just finalized a rapid evaluation of the pilot phase of the Mama Misitu campaign on illegal logging. The meeting will give TFWG partners an opportunity to give final feedback on the evalation report and set a strategy for implementing the next phase of the campaign. Partners are welcome to submit additional agenda items for discussion.

These workshops are the first in a series, facilitated by project partners UCRT, Honeyguide Foundation and TNRF and coordinated by TasConsult, to record best practices from local tourism management.

Tune in to TBC 1 talkshow, Tuambie, for a live discussion of forestry governance issues, featuring representatives from the Forestry and Beekeeping Division, civil society and academia. For more information contact the office of the Mama Misitu campaign against illegal logging at r.mtingwa@tnrf.org.

The Pastoralism and Livelihoods Task Force will convene for a regular meeting. The agenda will be made available shortly. Please contact Daniel Ouma at d.ouma@tnrf for more information and to confirm your participation.

The Policy Forum will host a public "Breakfast Debate" in collaboration with TNRF on the opportunities and threats from the biofuels industry in Tanzania on 29th May at 7.30am-9.00am. Speakers from government and civil society will discuss their perspectives on the impact of the emerging biofuels industry on rural livelihoods, land rights and national

In collaboration with TANAPA and GTZ, TNRF is organizing a book launch for a new book about the Selous Game Reserve. "Wild Heart of Africa - The Selous Game Reserve in Tanzania" is the story of the largest protected wildlife area in the world.

The one-day joint stakeholders meeting organised by the Ereto II Ngorongoro Pastoralist Project aims "to bring together the government and civil society organisations that work or support the communities in the same areas that Ereto works in Sale and Ngorongoro Divisions in Ngorongoro District.

CRT will facility a community forum in Hanang to formulate a framework for women's leadership.

A regular meeting of the partners of the Tanzania Forestry Working Group. The main agenda topic is the planning of the implementation of the Mama Misitu campaign for illegal logging. All working group members are kindly asked to confirm their participation by Wednesday, 6th May.

Some partners of the Pastoralism and Livelihoods Task Force will participate in a preliminary analysis of an applied study on the ecological impact of cross-border migration of pastoralists from northern Tanzania and southern Kenya. The study was commissioned by the Eastern African Environmental Network and was carried out jointly by several local organizations.

Ujamaa Community Resource Trust, Honeyguide Foundation, TAS Consult and TNRF's Programme Officer for Wildlife Governance will introduce their new joint project called, "Social learning for Adaptive Tourism Management" to communities in Loliondo.

Partners in the Pastoralism and Livelihoods Task Force will convene in Karatu to participate in an exchange visit hosted by the Ereto Ngorongoro Pastoralist Project to share lessons learned from working with pastoralist communities.

Led by the Kimmage-IIED Pastoralism Project and PINGOs Forum and with support from VetAid Tanzania, the Pastoral Livelihoods Task Force will host a meeting with the Pastoralist Parliamentary Group to discuss current issues affecting pastoralists and to come up with short and long term strategies.

The Pastoralism and Livelihoods Task Force will convene for a regular meeting. The agenda will be made available shortly.

Ujamaa-Community Resource Trust (CRT) and Community Forums facilitate a week-long forum with women's organizations in Longido.

During this meeting, DFID will present the UK Action Plan on Climate Change in Tanzania - which seeks to bring together under one broad framework, the climate change activities of DFID Tanzania, the British High Commission and the British Council.

As a way of seeking to promote learning and identify linkages with ongoing and planned NGO Projects that address Climate Change in Tanzania, DFID has

The Division of Forestry and Beekeeping has organized this Review of stakeholders to continue the process of revising the National Forestry and Beekeeping Policy.

TNRF's Human Wildlife Conflict programme has organized a meeting of partners to discuss the development of a sub project on Human Elephant Conflict.

Danida and Ereto meet for a programme evaluation

A general meeting of the Pastoralism and Livelihoods Task Force

4th Steering Committee Meeting in 2009.

3rd Steering Committee Meeting 2009.