TaTEDO Participated in the European Parliamentary hearing for “Better Funding of Modern Energy Services Access for the Poor” in Brussels, Belgium Tuesday May 11th, Hon. Gay Mitchell and Hon. Nirj Deva who are members of the European Parliament in c

TaTEDO has recently hosted a three-day AREED II partners meeting in Tanzania. The meeting was held from 4th to 6th of July 2011 at Kunduchi Beach Hotel, Dar es Salaam, Tanzania. The event brought together AREED partners from five countries. These countrie

The Government of Tanzania through the MEM assisted by the MDBs has prepared a draft Investment Plan (IP) which will be used as a proposal to source funds.  We therefore, invite your views regarding the draft Investment Plan which is available on this website.

TaTEDO hosted the delegation from the Norwegian Climate and Forest Initiatives in Shinyanga Region who came to Tanzania to see the progress of the REDD programme in the country from 19th to 21st of October 2010.

During the visit, the Executive Director of TaTEDO, Mr. Estomih N. Sawe introduced the other REDD pilot project partners from NAFRAC, DASS and Shinyanga Rural District to the Ambassador Hans 
Brattskar and his delegation .

The Community Based REDD pilot project focuses on strengthening and supporting local communities to continue managing their community forests (Ngitilis) in a sustainable manner using carbon incentives resulting from REDD.

 

The purpose of project is to assist 250 Ngitili owners in 10 villages of Shinyanga rural and Kahama districts in order to establish a robust local institutional framework that will effectively manage the restored Ngitilis to capture benefits arising from REDD. The project so far has managed to map Ngitilis, build 80 improved stoves, construct 5 biogas plants and distribute more than 150,000 seedlings to the beneficiaries.