Organization:  Tanzania Natural Resource Forum Deadline:  31 August 2023 Expected Start Date: Immediately Duty Station: Arusha Reporting To: Executive Director PURPOSE OF THE POSITION To collaborate, coordinate, facilitate, and lead policy harmonization through strategic engagement with policy influence working groups, sector ministries, and Parliamentary committees in strengthening Tanzania’s policy, regulatory, and enabling environment for sustainable biodiversity conservation. PROJECT OVERVIEW TNRF has been identified as a recipient of the USAID Tuhifadhi Maliasili grant with ..read more

youth_activity.png Media Folder:  Media Root The program was a regional event co-organized by the Youth Initiative for Land in Africa (YILAA) and the International Land Coalition (ILC) themed “Youth at the Centre of accountable and inclusive land governance”. The event was held in Benin and Togo from 6th to 10th March 2023. The objective was to bring ILC Africa young leaders to learn from others' experiences on youth actions in achieving land rights in Africa. Develop and improve tools for more effective advocacy (including land mapping and data production/use) and strengthen collab ..read more

align.jpg Media Folder:  Media Root Tanzania Natural Resource Forum (TNRF) is a member of the National Engagement Strategy (NES) and the NES Land Based Investment Working Group coordinator. TNRF has been monitoring land-based investments in different parts of Tanzania for almost five years (since 2016) with the facilitation of the Tanzania Land Alliance (TALA). This monitoring aimed at collecting evidence for the purpose of mobilizing, influencing, and organizing stakeholders to improve land-based investment practices in Tanzania. In December 2021 and mid-February 2022 TNRF in colla ..read more

launching_the_ik_book_by_hon._jafo.png Media Folder:  Media Root On 11th February 2023 at Lush Garden Arusha, Hon. Dr. Suleiman Jafo, the Minister of State, Office of the Vice President Union and Environment, launched a book on using indigenous knowledge in the conservation of the environment, water sources, and forests. The book was produced by one of the Tanzania Natural Resource Forum (TNRF) members, Media Aid for Indigenous and Pastoralists Community (MAIPAC), among the 13 partners with respective projects coordinated by the organization under Indigenous Community Cons ..read more

forest_governance_and_forest_landscape_restoration_workshop_by_tnrf.jpg Media Folder:  Media Root Tanzania Natural Resource Forum (TNRF) in collaboration with World Wide Fund (WWF) convened a meeting that brought together members of the Tanzania Forest Working Group (TFWG) and other forest-related Civil Society Organizations (CSOs) from Tanzania Mainland and Zanzibar to dialogue on issues regarding key governance and management of forest resources. The meeting was held in Morogoro, from 21st - 23rd September 2022 and provided a platform for sharing knowledge and strengthen ..read more

tfwg_team.jpg Media Folder:  Media Root Tanzania Natural Resource Forum (TNRF) through financial support from its members Tanzania Forest Conservation Group (TFCG) and Mpingo Conservation Development Initiative (MCDI), hosted a Tanzania Forest Working Group (TFWG) meeting in Edema Hotel Morogoro from 15th-17th March 2022. The objective of the meeting was to discuss issues related to Natural Resources management and propose to join actions for 2022, share experiences and lessons from TFWG members, and bring others members into national policy dialogues related to Community-based Natu ..read more

Globally, International Women’s Day (IWD) is celebrated every 8th of March, where the contributions of women and girls around the world in social, economic, cultural, and political affairs are recognized and amplified.   In Tanzania, the IWD was nationally commemorated on Tuesday 8th March 2022, where every region had an opportunity to collaborate with Civil Society Organizations to celebrate this special day for women and girls, with the theme “Generation equality for sustainable development”. In the Arusha region, the IWD celebration was held at Sheikh Amri Abeid Karume Stadium an ..read more

kiteto_visit.jpg Media Folder:  Media Root After successful piloting of Participatory Rangeland Management (PRM) project in Kiteto District where four clusters are currently implementing the CRIF projects, further two projects are replicated at Lesingita village, Longido District, and Ruvuremit, Simanjoro district. The government officials from the Ministry of livestock and fisheries, Ministry of Natural Resource and Tourism, Vice President Office, Ministry of Land Housing Human Settlement and Development, Ministry of Agriculture, and Manyara, and Arusha Regional Secretariats travel ..read more

Pan African Climate Justice Alliance (PACJA), in collaboration with Youth Love Egypt Foundation and the Alliance National Platform, has organized a roundtable discussion to review, reflect and analyze the COP26 outcomes and build a broad consensus on the collective strategy for COP27. The workshop is scheduled from 15th to 18th December 2021 at Radisson Blu Hotel, Cairo, Egypt. The Roundtable will provide a platform for Tanzania Natural Resource Forum (TNRF) whose climate change is one of its thematic areas, to participate, exchange views and experiences, and deeply reflect on the COP26 ..read more

The United Nations Climate Change (UNFCCC) Summit, the Conference of Parties (COP26) was held from 31st October to 13th November 2021 by world leaders in Glasgow, Scotland. The meeting brought together leaders from all countries in the world to act together and agree on how to step up global action to solve the climate crisis. cop26_closure.jpg Media Folder:  Media Root COP26 President Alok Sharma on the conference’s last day.    Photo credit: Yves Herman/Reuters The main objective of COP26 was to secure global net-zero by mid-century and keep 1.5 degrees wi ..read more