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Tanzania

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Policymakers in Kenya meet with researchers and smallholder farmers to learn about locally appropriate solutions to climate change (Photo: Timothy Mwaura, CIGAR)

Devolved climate finance approach forges new ways of working between citizens and state

Insight, 09 May 2018

Water is conserved at a devolved climate finance project site in Zanzibar

Responding to climate change in Tanzania by strengthening dryland governance and planning

Archived Project

The sun beats down on Dongo village, Tanzania. Children walk with cattle while women carry water buckets (Photo: Chih-Jung Lee)

Shining a light on energy consumers in rural Tanzania

Insight, 12 March 2018

Artisanal and small-scale mining stakeholders in Tanzania explore solutions to key challenges (Photo: Steve Aanu/IIED)

Using dialogue to extract sustainable solutions for artisanal and small-scale mining

Insight, 26 February 2018

Miners from the Tanga region in northern Tanzania participating in discussions about how to make ASM in Tanzania more sustainable (Photo: Steve Aanu)

Mining dialogue paves the way for change

News, 05 February 2018

Dialogue participants visited ASM operations (Photo: Mkhululi Nkosilamandla Ncube)

Can ASM lead the Africa Mining Vision?

Insight, 07 December 2017

Esilalei, Tanzania: Teresia Olotai uses a refrigerator plugged into a solar powered micro-grid. Delivering energy access in rural Tanzania could help transform local economies (Photo: Morgana Wingard, USAID, Creative Commons via Flickr)

How energy can generate growth in Tanzania's rural economy

Insight, 21 September 2017

Cutting down trees, especially for livestock grazing, can lead to soil erosion, as seen on this hillside outside Addis Ababa (Photo: Aaron Minnick/World Resources Institute, Creative Commons via Flickr)

Shaping the future of forest and farm landscapes in Africa

Insight, 21 August 2017

Durban Beach, South Africa (Photo: Darren Glanville, Creative Commons via Flickr)

Investing in natural capital to deliver the SDGs and reduce poverty

Insight, 17 July 2017

Esther Msafiri demonstrates using electricity for oil pressing in Njombe region, Tanzania (Photo: Sarah Best/IIED)

Powering local development in Tanzania

Insight, 24 February 2017

A demonstration of solar PV products by the Energy and Environment Partnership in Tanzania's southern Iringa Region gathers an audience of all ages (Photo: EEP Southern and Eastern Africa, Creative Commons via Flickr)

Bringing solar out of the shadows

Insight, 20 February 2017

IIED's Fitsum Weldegiorgis presents at the action dialogue on artisanal and small-scale mining in Tanzania (Photo: Steve Aanu)

'The time is right' for dialogue about sustainable ASM in Tanzania

Active Project

Sixty-two-year-old Elizabeth Mukwimba has a solar-powered lighting system. She no longer has to buy expensive kerosene and has been able to use the savings to re-roof her house (Photo: Russell Watkins/Department for International Development)

Electricity supplies in Tanzania: putting people first

Insight, 13 December 2016

Nearly 80 per cent of Dar es Salaam's residents live in informal settlements, and less than 10 per cent of the city has sewer access (Photo: Anna Walnycki/IIED)

Connecting settlements, cities and basins: realising SDG 6 at scale

Insight, 25 August 2016

Learning route participants interact with local communities in Isiolo, Kenya (Photo: Timothy Mwaura/CGIAR)

Seven ways to build resilient local economies in fragile contexts

Insight, 24 August 2016

A woman returns to a farmer village near Dodoma, Tanzania (Photo: Cecilia Schubert, Creative Commons via Flickr)

IIED webinar: strengthening women's rights in land governance

Event on 02 February 2016

Levocatus Saidi Bujiku has been working as an artisanal miner for about two years (Photo: Brian Sokol/Panos Pictures)

Gold mining: the search for common ground

Insight, 11 June 2015

Miners work deep within a tunnel at Nsangano gold mine in the Geita District (Photo: copyright Brian Sokol/Panos Pictures)

Gold for life

Insight, 24 April 2015

Tanzania: participatory training events for small-scale farmers can introduce the concept of climate change and help farmers identify which crops could work well in their area (Photo: Cecilia Schubert/CCAFS)

From knowledge to action – how top down training is driving bottom-up resilience in Tanzania

Insight, 09 March 2015

Northern Ghana: a village chief learns forestry skills. Rural communities need investment to build up forest and farm enterprises and link them to markets and support networks (Photo: Treeaid, via Creative Commons)

It's time for revolution in forest business

Insight, 17 November 2014

Members of Likawage Village Natural Resources Committee use beaters to prevent a lit fire from burning backwards towards farms (Photo: Deogratias Ndossi)

Making REDD+ work for communities and forests: three shared lessons for project designers

Article, 10 April 2014

Pilot projects including the Bolsa Floresta forest stipend scheme in Amazonas, Brazil, help to combat deforestation in Brazil (Google re-use licensed)

How to assess what people want from REDD+

Insight, 31 March 2014

A goal worth scoring: Lessons from winning football teams can improve the supply chains of commodities that drive deforestation. Credit: Cusia-Inc

Football’s winning ingredients can help forests in Kenya and Tanzania

Insight, 20 March 2014

Early start: A cow being milked at first light in the village of Kimokouwa (credit: Toby Mitchell)

Mixing meteorology with traditions to improve climate forecasts for pastoralists

Insight, 19 March 2014

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