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(Apply through Honeyguide Foundation, NOT TNRF)

About the Foundation

The Honeyguide Foundation is a non-profit, non-governmental organization that supports rural communities and environmental conservation in Tanzania, making use of eco-tourism as a sustainable source of income. The Foundation's focus areas are the following:

Student project: Analysis of market chain of commercialized biodiversity products in the East Usambara Mountains, Tanga

The Landscape Mosaics project is a 3-year research initiative of the CIFOR-ICRAF Biodiversity Platform to promote flexible and broadly applicable approaches for integrating livelihoods and biodiversity conservation in five tropical landscape mosaics. In the East Usambara Mountains of Tanzania the project is implemented by the Tanzania Forest Conservation Group (TFCG) in collaboration with the World Agroforestry Centre (ICRAF).

We are searching for a logistics coordinator/research assistant to help us out on the evaluation of a USAID Women and Develoment Grant in Tanzania during August-October.

This person would be responsible for helping us contact key infomants we identify for the assessment, setting up meetings with those informants, helping to set up community focus groups/rapid appraisal workshops in selected rural communities, arranging logistic for the field assessment team (e.g. local transportation, accommodations, translators as needed), and providing research assistance to the assessment team.

Policy terrain for rewarding forest biodiversity conservation outside protected areas in the East Usambara Mountains, Tanzania

A 2 day workshop in Morogoro, 29th -30th September 2008

Rationale

The Mpingo Conservation Project is a Tanzanian NGO developing Participatory Forest Management and Forest Certification as a combined tool to achieve forest conservation and alleviate rural poverty in south-eastern Tanzania.

Grade: Junior Executive Officer

Responsible to: National Coordinator

Location: Kilwa Masoko, Tanzania

Start Date: as soon as possible

Main Duties:

YAV is a fast growing Tanzanian NGO proudly working to improve policy and governance in the health sector with the vision to see a Tanzania where healthy and responsible young men and women enjoy equitable, affordable and quality health services as their basic right. We are looking for an individual to fill the position of a Programme Officer for Health Service Users Component

Overall Responsibilities: Your overall objective is to increase youth awareness, knowledge and active participation in health sector planning, implementation and tracking of health resources at district level. Engaging youth in the districts to demand and utilize quality health services is the main approach.
Specific Responsibilities: