By Nike Doggart | Technical Advisor at TFCG
West Usambaras:
The team has been finalizing some of the construction work and following-up on the various water, micro-finance, agriculture, and bee-keeping initiatives.
Gorta, the previous donor, has indicated that it is unlikely that they will resume funding in the near future due to a shift in their organizational focus: away from water and into improved seeds. As such, we still urgently need funding that will enable us to support the communities to demonstrate, for the first time in Tanzania, a successful integrated forest and water resources management plan!
New initiatives for 2015 - 2016:
The Forest Justice in Tanzania initiative is back in action with an ambitious work plan for this year that aims: to set forest conservation issues firmly on the nation's agenda as we get ready for elections; to tackle the current systemic distortions that result in the government spending almost nothing on the management of the nation's most important forests; and to empower communities to benefit more from their forests through sustainable forest-based enterprises.
With agriculture being the main cause of deforestation in Tanzania, we are also on track to help communities in South Ngurus, East Usambaras and Rubehos to adopt more sustainable and more climate resilient agriculture in ways that avoid deforestation.
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