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Ujamaa Community Resource Trust receives the prestigious Equator Prize!

Web Master — Wed, 24 Sep 2008 12:18:25 -0400

Ujamaa Community Resource Trust has received the prestigious Equator Prize for its groundbreaking support for community-based natural resource management and rights in Tanzania. As one of 25 such organisations from around the world, the prize will be awarded at the World Conservation Forum in Barcelona, Spain in October 2008. UCRT was selected out of a list of hundreds of grassroots organizations working on sustainable development. Ujamaa Community Resource Trust works with communities in Ngorongoro, Arusha, Mbulu, Simanjiro and Hanang Districts.

Community-based Tourism

Wildlife Conservation Bill No. 9 of 2008 now available

Web Master — Fri, 26 Sep 2008 11:40:16 -0400

The new Wildlife Conservation Bill is to be tabled in Parliament in the up-coming session beginning 28th October 2008 for the first of two readings. To download the Bill, please click here.

Steering Committee

Senior Social Scientist at Africare

Web Master — Wed, 24 Sep 2008 09:06:37 -0400

Apply through Africare. See the contact information below.

Africare is a US based non profit, non governmental organization founded in 1971 which exclusively
works in Africa. In Tanzania, Africare operates in Tabora, Dodoma, Coast Region, Zanzibar and head
office in Dar es Salaam. Africare will soon launch a new project with one field office in Kigoma region
and we are therefore looking for an enthusiastic Senior Social Scientist to work with the field office
team in Kigoma and country office in Dar es Salaam.

Please download the job announcement below for more information.

Tanzania Programme Manager at FZS

Web Master — Wed, 24 Sep 2008 09:12:48 -0400

Apply through Frankfurt Zoological Society. See contact information below.

FZS is looking to recruit a Tanzanian national as a Programme Manager in our Africa Department to provide management and technical support for our Tanzania conservation programme.

This senior management position is available for a conservation professional with ten or more years’ field and project management experience. The successful candidate will be involved in managing FZS’s Tanzania Conservation Programme, with specific responsibility for projects in the Serengeti Ecosystem, and will be the focal contact point with Tanzanian Government agencies and other Tanzanian partners.

Please download the job announcement below for more information.

Project Coordinator at Pamoja, Inc.

Web Master — Wed, 24 Sep 2008 09:36:47 -0400

Apply through Pamoja, Inc. See contact information below.

Registered in 1998 as a US nonprofit corporation, Pamoja Inc seeks to be a resource for community innovation worldwide. Pamoja promotes original approaches to challenges facing communities, both locally and globally. It has a commitment to the dissemination of winning ideas that yield practical results in the lives of people and their communities. It incubates ideas, fosters experimentation and develops networks to spread the benefits of successful solutions.

Amended Schedule to the Wildlife Conservation Act Non-Consumptive Wildlife Use Regulations GN 196 now in circulation

Web Master — Wed, 03 Sep 2008 09:48:39 -0400

The Ministry of Natural Resources and Tourism has today provided tourism companies with an amended schedule to the Wildlife Conservation Act Non-Consumptive Wildlife Use Regulations GN 196 of September 2007. The Schedule is retroactive from 1st July 2008.

Wildlife

Pastoral Livelihoods Task Force meeting

Daniel Ouma — Tue, 23 Sep 2008 02:10:08 -0400

Start: 29/09/2008 - 9:00am

End: 29/09/2008 - 11:00am

A strategic planning session for future Task Force activities

Pastoralism and Livelihoods

Volunteer for Project Support, Communications and Donor Management

Web Master — Thu, 14 Aug 2008 11:05:01 -0400

(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:

Logistics Coordinator / Research Assistant

Web Master — Wed, 23 Jul 2008 10:43:11 -0400

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.

Student Project/Consultancy: Forestry and Biodiversity Policy Issues

Web Master — Mon, 14 Jul 2008 10:33:51 -0400

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