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TaTEDO Efforts Enhance Sustainable Energy Access for the Majority in Tanzania
Introduction
Energy is central to human life and access to clean, affordable, and reliable energy has a profound impact on economic and social wellbeing. It is essential input
to improving income, health, education and women empowerment. However, Tanzania is characterized by very low access to cleaner and modern energy services. Over 80% of the Tanzanian population lives without access to modern energy technologies and services. This is a bottleneck in achieving millennium development goals (MDGs) as estimates indicates that 80% of the Tanzanian population will remain without access to clean cooking fuels or improved cook stoves in 2015. Additionally, if electrification programmes follow the current trend and investments, the urban electrification gap will remain above 50% and the rural gap will remain above 90% in 2015.
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Efforts to Salvage Ngitilis /Forests Through Sustainable Energy Technologies and Services (SETs)
Pastory Mwesigwa-TaTEDO Lake Zone Office.
In Tanzania, human activities have been observed to contribute significantly to the loss of forest which is estimated to about 90,000ha per annum apart from  wild fire which is another threat to forest particularly in miyombo wood land. Fire greatly contributes to deforestation and forest degradation, the estimated forested land loss is about 450,000 ha per annum. The generated story is about one village named Mwamadilanha which is among eleven villages implementing a pilot project on Community Based REDD Mechanism for Sustainable Forest Management In Semi-Arid Areas (case of ngitilis in Shinyanga Region), spearheaded by TaTEDO and its partners (DASS, NAFRAC and District councils) The project is employing various efforts to address key drivers of deforestation and forest degradation.
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Stakeholder’s Meeting for Biofuel Policy Recommendations at New Palm Tree Village, Bagamoyo, Tanzania.
J.Shuma, TaTEDO
Tanzania is in the process of formulating a sound policy and legal mechanisms to foster investments in biofuels. This has been attributed to different firms which have shown interest in biofuel investments and local need of reducing fuel imports. In different areas where such investments have taken place, the people have already started experiencing environmental, economic and social effects due to inappropriate coordination of biofuels activities between responsible government departments, the investing firms and the absence of a policy to govern biofuel activities.
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