TNRF-related

A Road Through the Serengeti?

Web Master — Thu, 15 Jul 2010 08:10:47 -0400

Recent articles and a statement from the Communications Officer of Tanzania National Parks have confirmed that the Tanzanian Government is planning to build a commercial road that cuts directly through the Serengeti. This is becoming a very hot topic, especially within the conservation community in Tanzania and even internationally, and TNRF would like to alert our members to the issue and provide information so they can learn more.

Tanzania Dynamite Fishing Monitoring Network

Web Master — Thu, 15 Jul 2010 05:18:43 -0400

Dynamite Fishing Network

Access Great Resources on Dynamite Fishing Issues in Tanzania here.

By, Sue Wells

TNRF Strategic Planning Session (Part 2)

Web Master — Mon, 10 May 2010 12:40:20 -0400

Start: 27/05/2010 - 8:00am

End: 28/05/2010 - 5:00pm

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.

Steering Committee

TNRF Strategic Planning Session (Part 1)

Web Master — Mon, 10 May 2010 12:38:08 -0400

Start: 20/05/2010 - 8:00am

End: 21/05/2010 - 5:00pm

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.

Steering Committee

Maajabu film show on community forestry in Lutindi

Web Master — Mon, 10 May 2010 12:34:37 -0400

Start: 28/05/2010 - 8:00am

End: 29/05/2010 - 5:00pm

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.

Maajabu

Round Table on Responsible Tourism

Web Master — Mon, 10 May 2010 12:24:28 -0400

Start: 03/06/2010 - 8:30am

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?

Round Table on Responsible Tourism

Web Master — Mon, 10 May 2010 12:16:05 -0400

"Green"-oriented tourism investors will kick off Karibu Fair 2010 with a seminar on Responsible Tourism. As the green revolution of socially and ecologically responsible tour operators slowly picks up speed globally, one finds that products on demand will have a market advantage if they carry a green label or brand. Indeed the global trend in manufacturing, fisheries, and agricultural industries is to establish agencies to certify "green" projects. Is an association for responsible tourism feasible in Tanzania? Join the Round Table on 3 June to debate this and more.

Community-based Tourism

Remembering climate change at the World Economic Forum

Web Master — Sun, 09 May 2010 14:13:46 -0400

While Africa's corporate world debated at the World Economic Forum in Dar es Salaam last week, the Tanzania Civil Society Forum for Climate Change joined the African People's Forum to bring together residents from across the country to discuss the impact of big business on climate change and livelihoods for the average Tanzanian.

Climate Change

Towards a forum on human-elephant conflict

Web Master — Sat, 24 Apr 2010 14:26:16 -0400

On 20th April, at a workshop held to promote information exchange regarding conflicts between people and elephants in Tanzania, NGOs and wildlife authorities met to encourage dialogue between people and organizations working to avoid further conflict. As a result of the workshop, participants, who included leading NGO practitioners in the field of human-elephant conflict as well as their counterparts in government, decided to move forward with plans to establish a discussion forum on the subject.

Wildlife

Civil society in Tanzania reacts to CoP15

Web Master — Wed, 14 Apr 2010 12:41:33 -0400

In March this year in Tanzania a civil society forum on climate change provided its members with a report of CoP15 - a way for grassroots organizations in Tanzania to learn about the main outcomes and strategize local action to mitigate and adapt to climate change. Over 150 participants from mostly Tanzania, including partner activists from Uganda and Kenya, convened in Dar es Salaam for a 2-day session to learn and plan a coordinated reaction.

Wildlife

Consultative Strategic Meeting to Develop Methods to Mitigate HEC in Tanzania

Web Master — Thu, 01 Apr 2010 20:17:56 -0400

Start: 20/04/2010 - 10:00am

End: 20/04/2010 - 5:00pm

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.

Mama Misitu Strategic Planning Meeting

Web Master — Thu, 01 Apr 2010 19:07:06 -0400

Start: 12/04/2010 - 9:00am

End: 13/04/2010 - 1:00pm

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

Mama Misitu

Pastoralist Livelihoods Task Force updates on research about pastoralist and ranching meat production

Web Master — Mon, 15 Mar 2010 03:11:14 -0400

Start: 18/03/2010 - 9:00am

End: 19/03/2010 - 4:00pm

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.

Pastoralist Livelihoods

ForumCC to host report-back from CoP15

Web Master — Thu, 11 Mar 2010 16:59:19 -0500

Start: 30/03/2010 - 9:00am

End: 31/03/2010 - 5:00pm

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

Climate Change

Mama Misitu Evaluation Briefing

Web Master — Fri, 05 Mar 2010 05:41:22 -0500

Start: 10/03/2010 - 10:00am

End: 10/03/2010 - 12:00pm

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.

Mama Misitu

Remembrance for Alan Rodgers

Web Master — Fri, 26 Feb 2010 11:39:11 -0500

Start: 09/04/2010 - 5:00pm

End: 09/04/2010 - 9:00pm

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.

Tanzania Forestry Working Group meeting

Web Master — Fri, 26 Feb 2010 11:26:57 -0500

Start: 09/03/2010 - 9:00am

End: 09/03/2010 - 1:00pm

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.

Forestry

Maajabu entertains at clean energy campaign in Mkuru with Oikos EA

Web Master — Fri, 26 Feb 2010 10:03:47 -0500

Start: 01/03/2010 - 8:00am

End: 05/03/2010 - 5:00pm

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

Adaptive Tourism Management Planning for Engaresero Village

Web Master — Fri, 26 Feb 2010 08:52:43 -0500

Start: 22/03/2010 - 9:00am

End: 26/03/2010 - 5:00pm

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.

COMMUNICATIONS OFFICER

Web Master — Mon, 25 Jan 2010 09:04:37 -0500

Steering Committee

ADMINISTRATOR

Web Master — Mon, 25 Jan 2010 08:47:49 -0500

Steering Committee

Pastoralists Livelihoods Task Force Meeting

Daniel Ouma — Mon, 25 Jan 2010 02:47:40 -0500

Start: 29/01/2010 - 9:00am

End: 29/01/2010 - 1:00pm

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

Pastoralist Livelihoods

Maajabu video shoot about clean energy with Oikos EA

Web Master — Mon, 04 Jan 2010 04:20:17 -0500

Start: 25/01/2010 - 8:00pm

End: 29/01/2010 - 5:00pm

Maajabu

New publication on biofuel production in Tanzania

Web Master — Thu, 24 Dec 2009 08:53:26 -0500

A new publication is the most recent output of TNRF's applied research study on the biofuels sector. The book, titled Biofuels, land access and rural livelihoods in Tanzania, is the latest in a series of publications by the International Institute for Environment and Development that looks at land tenure and resource access in Africa. The study documents the experiences of communities with three types of biofuel crops -- sugarcane, jatropha and palm -- in four regions, and analyzes the benefits these communities earn from plantation and small holder crop production.

Forestry

Maajabu entertains at clean energy campaign in Mkuru with Oikos EA

Web Master — Wed, 23 Dec 2009 07:43:04 -0500

Start: 02/08/2010 - 8:00am

End: 18/08/2010 - 5:00pm

Maajabu

Maajabu entertains at clean energy campaign in Mkuru with Oikos EA

Web Master — Wed, 23 Dec 2009 07:42:10 -0500

Start: 19/07/2010 - 8:00am

End: 30/07/2010 - 5:00pm

Maajabu

Maajabu entertains at clean energy campaign in Mkuru with Oikos EA

Web Master — Wed, 23 Dec 2009 07:40:07 -0500

Start: 07/06/2010 - 8:00am

End: 18/06/2010 - 5:00pm

Maajabu

Maajabu entertains at clean energy campaign in Mkuru with Oikos EA

Web Master — Wed, 23 Dec 2009 07:25:55 -0500

Start: 08/02/2010 - 8:00am

End: 18/02/2010 - 5:00pm

Maajabu

Maajabu film show at Imbaseni

Web Master — Wed, 23 Dec 2009 07:21:52 -0500

Start: 15/01/2010 - 7:00pm

End: 15/01/2010 - 9:00pm

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

Maajabu

Maajabu video shoot on clean energy

Web Master — Wed, 23 Dec 2009 07:19:31 -0500

Start: 11/01/2010 - 8:00am

End: 15/01/2010 - 5:00pm

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.

Maajabu

Training on film production with CBCF

Web Master — Wed, 23 Dec 2009 07:03:47 -0500

Start: 18/01/2010 - 8:00am

End: 18/01/2010 - 5:00pm

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

Maajabu video shoot about East Coast Fever

Web Master — Wed, 23 Dec 2009 06:59:52 -0500

Start: 08/02/2010 - 8:00am

End: 19/02/2010 - 5:00pm

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

Maajabu film show at Kilimanjaro

Web Master — Wed, 23 Dec 2009 06:46:24 -0500

Start: 03/02/2010 - 9:00am

End: 04/02/2010 - 5:00pm

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

Maajabu

Project Manager

Web Master — Thu, 17 Dec 2009 07:18:27 -0500

ForumCC - the Tanzania Civil Society Forum on Climate Change - welcomes applications for its first Project Manager. Responding to the growing impact of climate change in Tanzania, ForumCC is creating a platform for learning, dialogue and joint action among civil society organizations in Tanzania.

Forestry

Youth Discussion and Vigil on Climate Change

Web Master — Thu, 10 Dec 2009 05:11:27 -0500

Start: 12/12/2009 - 2:30pm

End: 12/12/2009 - 4:00pm

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.

Climate Change

National Hearings on Climate Change reveal hardships and opportunities for Tanzanians

Web Master — Wed, 09 Dec 2009 08:55:44 -0500

At the National Climate Change Hearings in Dar-es-Salaam on Wednesday 2nd December, Tanzanians from around the country testified to the affects of climate change in their daily lives. The testimonies were provided inputs for the negotiating team from Tanzania to present at the international conference on climate change in Copenhagen, Denmark this month. Hon. Dr. Batilda Burian, the Minister of State in the Vice President's Office (Environment) was the keynote speaker and lead panelist. The event was organized by ForumCC - The Tanzania Civil Society Forum on Climate Change - with the support of DfID and Oxfam.

Climate Change

TNRF office closed until 5 January

Web Master — Wed, 09 Dec 2009 08:05:51 -0500

Start: 18/12/2009 - 5:00pm

End: 04/01/2010 - 8:00am

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

Steering Committee

TNRF Board Meeting

Web Master — Wed, 09 Dec 2009 08:00:39 -0500

Start: 14/01/2010 - 10:30am

End: 14/01/2010 - 1:00pm

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

Steering Committee

Action Day for a Fair Climate Deal at CoP15

Web Master — Mon, 23 Nov 2009 12:34:02 -0500

Start: 11/12/2009 - 9:00pm

End: 11/12/2009 - 11:00pm

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.

Climate Change

Special Meeting on MKUKUTA Indicators at the Informal Discussion Group for the Environment

Web Master — Mon, 23 Nov 2009 09:21:54 -0500

Start: 13/01/2010 - 9:30am

End: 13/01/2010 - 1:00pm

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:

Informal Discussion Group on the Environment

Special IDGE Meeting on Environmental Indicators for MKUKUTA

Web Master — Sat, 21 Nov 2009 07:43:27 -0500

Start: 13/01/2009 - 9:00am

End: 13/01/2009 - 1:00pm

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.

Informal Discussion Group on the Environment

Civil Society Day on Climate Change

Web Master — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 02:05:20 -0500

Start: 11/11/2009 - 10:00am

End: 11/11/2009 - 5:00pm

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.

Climate Change

Mama Misitu Campaign featured on ITV

Web Master — Tue, 17 Nov 2009 10:01:45 -0500

Start: 20/11/2009 - 9:00am

End: 20/11/2009 - 9:30am

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!

Mama Misitu

Piyaya Village Tourism Management Planning

Web Master — Tue, 17 Nov 2009 08:29:06 -0500

Start: 08/12/2009 - 9:00am

End: 11/12/2009 - 4:00pm

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.

Community-based Tourism

National Climate Change Hearings

Web Master — Tue, 17 Nov 2009 08:19:47 -0500

Start: 02/12/2009 - 10:00am

End: 02/12/2009 - 1:00pm

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.

Wildlife

Maajabu Film Show at Imbaseni Library

Web Master — Tue, 17 Nov 2009 08:11:44 -0500

Start: 04/12/2009 - 7:00pm

End: 04/12/2009 - 9:00pm

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

Maajabu

TNRF Board Meeting

Web Master — Sat, 07 Nov 2009 09:54:25 -0500

Start: 13/11/2009 - 9:30am

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

Steering Committee

IDGE Special Meeting

Web Master — Tue, 20 Oct 2009 10:08:19 -0400

Start: 28/10/2009 - 2:00pm

End: 28/10/2009 - 4:00pm

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.

Informal Discussion Group on the Environment

CSO Climate Change Forum Meeting

Web Master — Tue, 20 Oct 2009 09:57:35 -0400

Start: 11/11/2009 - 3:00pm

End: 11/11/2009 - 5:00pm

A regular meeting of the CSO Climate Change Forum

Tanzania Forestry Working Group Meeting

Web Master — Tue, 20 Oct 2009 09:56:26 -0400

Start: 12/11/2009 - 10:00am

End: 12/11/2009 - 1:00pm

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

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

Forestry