Strengthening dialogue and opportunities for knowledge and information sharing.
CBNRM
Promoting Community Based Natural Resource Management (CBNRM) as the focus for strengthening citizens voice in the forestry, rangelands, wildlife and fisheries thematic areas.
Climate Change
Communicating climate change as a cross cutting area of engagement through TNRF’s work.
Submitted by Website Officer on 4 November 2014 – 9:01am
October 2014 was a ‘dialogue’ month linking the South to South and South to North. TNRF engaged effectively in two important dialogues. The first dialogue was the NORAD/WWF Regional CBNRM Dialogue which took place on the 20th and 21st of October in Lusaka, Zambia. The second dialogue was the Initial South-North Dialogue Regarding Investment in Locally Controlled Forests in Tanzania and Mozambique which took place on the 28th and 29th of October in Helsinki, Finland.
Submitted by Website Officer on 31 October 2014 – 12:45pm
Title deeds of some investors in Iringa District should be revoked as their investments have never benefited neighboring communities, Civil Society Organisations (CSOs) here have suggested.
They said some investors have been allowing pastoralists to use their investment plots at a fee, denying them access to grazing pasture.
They were speaking during the second community inception workshop on the state of land-based investment and resource conflicts. The workshop was designed for CSOs and organised by the Tanzania Natural Resource Forum (TNRF) in Pawaga division.
Citing an example, they said some investors operating hunting blocks near the Ruaha National Park were supposed to pay annual fee of 25 percent to the government but it had never trickled down to villagers in the areas.
Submitted by Website Officer on 30 October 2014 – 3:15pm
Pawaga division authorities in Iringa District have urged the government to conduct land use plan in all the villages to avoid land conflicts between farmers and pastoralists.
They also challenged the government to allocate pastoralists to areas with adequate grazing pastures and build water infrastructures in a bid to avoid unnecessary land disputes.
Speaking at the community workshop on the state of land based investment and resource conflicts, Mlenge Ward Councilor, Rashid Matimbwa said that many areas designed for pastoralists in different villages have no pastures and water infrastructures.
The programme which titled ‘Ardhi Yetu’ is funded by CARE international, coordinated by CARE Tanzania and implemented by Tanzania Natural Resource Forum (TNRF).
Authors: Ally Msangi, Joseph Rutabingwa, Victor Kaiza, Antonio Allegretti – September 2014, IIED, London
Planning for climate resilience growth is increasingly important for the natural resource dependent economy of Tanzania. Central government does not have the knowledge, reach, skills or resources needed to plan for the range of livelihoods within Tanzania; but local governments, if granted the authority and resources, could plan with communities in the flexible, timely and appropriate manner that climate variability demands. Research conducted in three pastoral and agro-pastoral districts in northern Tanzania identified the constraints being faced within formal and customary planning processes. The roles of communities and local governments urgently need to be rethought, bringing their skills together to achieve greater climate resilience.
