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Tanzania
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Escalating local climate resilience finance
A new IIED report offers 30 practical options to help local people build vital resilience into their livelihoods, landscapes and food systems and calls for an urgent increase in climate finance to and through local organisations
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What role do local governance frameworks play in strengthening women’s voices in land governance?
Across East and West Africa, IIED and partners have been developing and testing approaches to strengthen women’s voices in local land governance. Philippine Sutz reflects on the role and impact of local governance frameworks as these approaches are implemented in different contexts
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Devolved Climate Finance (DCF) Alliance
An alliance of government and non-government organisations is promoting a mechanism for delivering climate finance to the local level for inclusive climate adaptation
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Ensuring women’s participation in land governance: “bringing the law home” in Tanzania
Despite Tanzania’s progressive legal framework on land rights and governance, many women are often left out of community decision-making due to social and cultural norms that persist in some areas of the country. Isabella Nchimbi discusses a participatory initiative in Tanzania that’s helping women make their voices heard when it comes to land governance
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Participatory toolkits help rural marginalised communities make their voices heard on climate change
The Pamoja Voices toolkits enable people and communities in Tanzania and Zanzibar to articulate their priorities for building resilience to climate change
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What happens when the landgrabbers leave? An account from Kilwa, Tanzania
An encouraging story from Tanzania about how four communities regained control of their lands
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Getting personal: tailoring support to power up Tanzania’s rural businesses
Drawing on new survey findings, Sarah Best discusses how customising support for small and micro businesses in rural Tanzania could unlock productivity
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Grassroots insights into urban risk and resilience
This IIED research project forges interdisciplinary pathways to resilience with communities in Dar es Salaam
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Blog series probes principles: what works for women’s land rights?
A new blog series featuring voices from East and West Africa will take a closer look at a set of principles we think strengthens women’s land rights. Here, IIED’s Philippine Sutz tells us what to expect
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Bringing attention to what works for women’s land rights
Coinciding with the International Day of Rural Women on 15 October, IIED launches a new series of blogs exploring core principles that can help to strengthen women’s land rights in the global South
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Building green and inclusive energy
As part of a global advocacy programme and network promoting renewable energy access, IIED and partners built a social innovation ‘Energy Change Lab’ that works with pioneers in Tanzania to build an energy system that is sustainable and people-centred
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Calibrating cooking to affect deforestation and violence against women in displaced settings
Cooking activities, deforestation and sexual and gender-based violence (SGBV) are dynamics that closely interact in displacement settings across the globe. Commissioned by Irish Aid, IIED’s study on cookstoves and fuels examined options for displaced communities in Kigoma, Tanzania, and considered lessons from other countries
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Power that changes lives: three lessons from a rural energy champion
Mini-grids are providing rural communities in Tanzania with the energy they need to move beyond powering household appliances, to generating new business and boosting the local economy
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Devolved climate finance approach forges new ways of working between citizens and state
Devolved climate finance programmes incorporate local knowledge and community priorities into decisions about how climate finance is planned and budgeted. At CBA12, practitioners will discuss the different components of these programmes, exploring the environment when they are most effective and why, and sharing experiences from several contexts
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Responding to climate change in Tanzania by strengthening dryland governance and planning
District governments in Tanzania are improving their capacity for effective adaptive planning by strengthening planning processes and establishing local adaptation funds. With support from a consortium of government and non-government stakeholders, they are testing a devolved climate finance mechanism for building resilience, which could inform policy and action in other drylands
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Shining a light on energy consumers in rural Tanzania
Chih-Jung Lee examined what's driving energy use for villagers in Tanzania. In this blog, Lee shares her findings and offers insights to mini-grid developers for meeting diverse consumer demand
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Using dialogue to extract sustainable solutions for artisanal and small-scale mining
Fitsum Weldegiorgis shares challenges and successes from IIED's artisanal and small-scale mining (ASM) dialogues in Ghana, Madagascar and most recently in Tanzania
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Mining dialogue paves the way for change
Participants at a dialogue on artisanal and small-scale mining (ASM) say the event has challenged their ideas about the sector and could pave the way for change
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Can ASM lead the Africa Mining Vision?
IIED and Tanzanian partners recently hosted a national dialogue on artisanal and small-scale mining in Tanzania. Mkhululi Nkosilamandla Ncube reports on the event, and shares his views of how the ASM dialogue process aligns with his work in promoting the Africa Mining Vision
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How energy can generate growth in Tanzania's rural economy
A workshop in Tanzania explored how off-grid energy can power opportunities for economic growth in rural communities. Guest blogger Basil Malaki reports back
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Shaping the future of forest and farm landscapes in Africa
As part of a new interdisciplinary partnership, IIED will be working with sector experts, scientists and practitioners to better understand and manage the growing competition for land in Sub-Saharan Africa, as governments seek to balance food production with forest conservation targets
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Investing in natural capital to deliver the SDGs and reduce poverty
With the meeting of the UN High-level Political Forum on sustainable development under way, Paul Steele discusses how natural capital can help achieve the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and lift the poorest out of poverty
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Powering local development in Tanzania
New research from IIED and Hivos shows the potential for energy entrepreneurs to scale up productive energy use in Tanzania. But to make it work, funders and policymakers need to provide incentives, support experimentation, and encourage collaboration
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Bringing solar out of the shadows
For Tanzania to meet its energy needs - and in a way that is sustainable - huge levels of finance are required to boost its decentralised energy sector. But the latest research shows current funding flows are way off target.
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'The time is right' for dialogue about sustainable ASM in Tanzania
IIED's second country dialogue on artisanal and small-scale mining (ASM) took place in Geita, Tanzania, in November 2017. The four-day event brought together around 90 participants, including miners, government officials and representatives from large mining companies and civil society organisations
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Electricity supplies in Tanzania: putting people first
With the energy sector expanding, how can the perspectives of local communities and end-users shape future power?
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Connecting settlements, cities and basins: realising SDG 6 at scale
World Water Week is an important opportunity to tackle the gap between global ambitions to achieve fair access to water and sanitation – and realities on the ground
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Seven ways to build resilient local economies in fragile contexts
Approaches developed in Mali, Senegal, Kenya and Tanzania offer insights for building resilience in areas facing risks of climate change, disasters and conflict
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IIED webinar: strengthening women's rights in land governance
Join us for a webinar on 2 February 2016 to discuss how women's rights in land governance can be strengthened
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Gold mining: the search for common ground
To better understand the wide range of people who depend on gold mining, IIED travelled to Tanzania to talk to some of them. Here are some of their stories
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Gold for life
Images from Geita District in northwest Tanzania show the diverse range of people that depend on gold mining for their livelihood
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From knowledge to action – how top down training is driving bottom-up resilience in Tanzania
Supporting government engagement with communities in Tanzania has identified three key ways in which the government can improve climate resilient planning
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It's time for revolution in forest business
Where will the investment come from to scale up successful locally controlled forestry? That was the question facing participants at a recent South-North Dialogue in Helsinki, Finland
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Making REDD+ work for communities and forests: three shared lessons for project designers
The challenge of bringing a business-like approach to forest conservation, using REDD+ schemes, is complex and daunting. But three lessons learnt by a project in southeastern Tanzania can help ensure success
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How to assess what people want from REDD+
Focus groups, choice experiments and votes in villages reveal big difference in how communities wish to be rewarded for avoiding deforestation
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Football’s winning ingredients can help forests in Kenya and Tanzania
Teamwork, competition and game-changers are all needed to transform the commodity chains that drive deforestation.
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Mixing meteorology with traditions to improve climate forecasts for pastoralists
Tanzanian meteorologists and traditional weather forecasters in pastoralist communities are working together to develop a unified system of climate information.
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Least developed countries take climate adaptation to next level
While many policymakers in the world's richest nations continue to deny the urgency of action on climate change, governments in the 48 least developed countries are pushing ahead with plans to adapt – or at least trying to
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Maps that build bridges
Thanks to digital participatory mapping, pastoralists are proud of their local knowledge and policymakers want to act on it.
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REDD+: 3 things to consider so men and women share the benefits
Linking commodities that drive deforestation with gender offers great opportunities that capitalise on the advantages of different actors
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Private sector involvement with REDD+
IIED worked with partners to understand and document the scale of private sector engagement with REDD+, which aimed to reduce emissions and conserve forests in specific countries.This was achieved by developing a series of national-level case studies, research into opportunities for further private sector engagement and commitments towards zero-deforestation supply chains
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Community maps reveal rich resources of land policymakers think is empty
Misperceptions of the drylands as barren and empty are leading to their mismanagement. An IIED mapping project aims to create a clearer picture of their value to pastoralists.
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REDD+: What is needed to make it work for the poor?
While REDD+ is aimed at reducing emissions from forests, its effectiveness will depend on how much the benefits trickle down to those living closest to the forest.
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Talking change: climate change adaptation in Tanzania
'Change' was the underlining theme for day one of the workshop, Implications of Climate Change for Drylands Planning in Tanzania at District and National Levels: Opportunities and Challenges. It’s about a changing climate, but it’s also about changing attitudes, approaches and planning processes.
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Tanzania: Moving beyond ‘land grab’ rhetoric to finding solutions
This is not an unusual story in Tanzania. Newspapers are being filled with “land grab” headlines. Stories about displacement and dodgy land deals are becoming normal street-side conversation.
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Five-nation study sheds light on costs of adapting agriculture to climate change
Research in Africa and Asia has shown that efforts to assess the costs of adapting agriculture to a changing climate often fail to reflect the diversity of the sector.
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4th International Conference on Community-Based Adaptation (CBA4)
The 4th International Conference on Community-Based Adaptation (CBA4) to climate change took place in February 2010 in Dar Es Salaam, Tanzania
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Policy that works for biodiversity and poverty reduction
IIED worked to understand how policy, economics and governance affect community-based initiatives, and how to better engage with governance in order to scale-up community initiatives and reduce poverty
