TNRF-related

The TNRF Board and Secretariat will convene for the second part of a strategic planning session related to the RAPID Outcome Mapping Approach (ROMA) "to creating strategies for evidence-based policy influencing."

For more information contact info@tnrf.org.

The TNRF Board and Secretariat will convene for the first part of a strategic planning session related to the RAPID Outcome Mapping Approach (ROMA) "to creating strategies for evidence-based policy influencing."

For more information please contact info@tnrf.org.

In collaboration with the ELCT and Hifadhi Misitu Lutindi (a MJUMITA member), Maajabu Films presents an interactive session about community forestry, through film and group discussion.

For more information about Maajabu contact: maajabu@tnrf.org or call Erica at 0789292911.

Maajabu is a project of the Tanzania Natural Resource Forum.

The Roundtable on Responsible Tourism will bring together players from the tourism industry in Tanzania and East Africa for a one-day discussion on the future of socially responsible tourism in Tanzania. What is the role for Responsible Tourism in the international tourism market? While tourism grows in Tanzania, how much is the local community benefitting?

Tanzania Wildlife Working Group (housed by TNRF) and WSPA are holding an innovative one-day workshop that will bring together representatives from various institutions practitioners, managers, academicians and researchers working in Human Elephant Conflict (HEC) and HEC related issues within Tanzania.

Planning meeting for phase II of the Mama Misitu campaign against illegal logging

The Pastoralist Livelihoods Task Force will meet to receive updates from the research projects on valuing meat production from pastoralist and ranching systems. The research was commissed by the PLTF in 2009 to understand the contribution from both forms of meat production to the national economy.

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.

Leaders from Engaresero Village in Ngorongoro District will meet to plan "adaptive tourism management".

In partnership with Ujamaa Community Resource Trust, Honeyguide Foundation and TAS Consult, the workshop for Engaresero Village is part of a new one year project has been launched at TNRF to pioneer a process for community based tourism management 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.

Maajabu will hold one of its regular film shows at the Imbaseni Free Library in Imbaseni Village near Usa River.

Maajabu Films will team up with Oikos East Africa to produce to series of short films about clean energy production, including clean burning stoves and solar energy.

The Maajabu filming crew will join their colleagues at a training by Community based Biodiversity Conservation Films (CBCF). Maajabu takes part in a 2-year long programme of training in video production about biodiversity for communities, funded by the Darwin Initiative. For more about CBCF, please visit: www.conservationfilms.org.

Maajabu Films is teaming up with VetAgro (TZ) and GALVmed (UK) to produce a film to promote the vaccination of East Coast Fever, a disease that hits pastoralist cattle hard in Tanzania. Studies about the vaccine show that it greatly increases the survival rate of the livestock, and in turn, improves the livelihoods of the livestock keepers.

Maajabu's mobile cinema will join the Mtakuja community development project in West Kilimanjaro to show films at schools and village centers.

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.

The morning talk show on ITV will share with Tanzanian audiences the successes of the pilot phase of the Mama Misitu campaign. Tune in to ITV at 9am for the show!

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.

Join the Maajabu Film Crew at the Imbaseni Library for a night of entertainment -- including a new film by Maajabu on forestry management!

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

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