Bringing Stakeholders Together to Plan for Climate Change

“It is imperative that local communities in the drylands and other vulnerable areas are assisted to build their resilience and enhance their adaptive capacities,” said Richard Muyungi, Assistant Director of the Vice President’s Office – EIA and Climate Change. Mr. Muyungi was addressing conference participants at the TNRF and IIED hosted event entitled, “Planning for climate resilient growth in Tanzania’s drylands.” The conference marked the end of a one year preparatory phase for a new programme to mainstream climate change adaptation into local and national government planning in Tanzania’s drylands. Gathering a diverse group of stakeholders together – such as participants from TAMISEMI; the Tanzanian Meteorological Agency; district and local government authority officials from Longido, Monduli and Ngorongoro; as well as experts and community representatives – it shared experiences and lessons from this first phase and plans for phase two.

The “challenges of adapting to climate change requires the commitment, support and participation of all stakeholders at both national and international levels,” explained Muyungi. “I am glad to learn that IIED and TNRF joined hands and worked together from the very beginning in the context of this spirit. Such initiative must be copied by other stakeholders in the realm of mainstreaming climate change adaptation into local and national government planning.”

Learn more about the year one implementation phase here.

Learn more about the conference here and here.