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• 2011-12-15 EfD Members Adolf Mkenda and Razack Lokina conducted training The Regional Experts Training course on Ecosystem workshop held in Maputo, Mozambique for three days from 30th November to 2nd December 2011.
• 2011-12-15 Razack Lokina Coordinator EfDT and appointed Chairman of Governing Board of the IRDP The board of directors is the highest governing authority within the management structure in the Institute of Rural Development Planning (IRDP). This is 4 years office tenure with extension of another two periods. His main task among others is to establish policy and directives that will lead the management of IRDP in the implementing its objectives
• 2011-12-13 John Kedi Mduma – moves further into policy circles in Tanzania Dr. JK. Mduma, one of the EfD (Tanzania) fellows, joined the Ministry of Water in June 2011 to provide expertise in monitoring and evaluation of the Water Sector Development Program (WSDP). Before that, Dr. Mduma was a technical adviser to the Ministry of Finance and Economic Affairs- Government of Tanzania in the preparation of the second phase of the National Strategy for Growth and Reduction of Poverty (MKUKUTA II), which was launched in October 2010. The WSDP is among the largest programs in Tanzania which implement the MKUKUTA II.
• 2011-12-02 REDD may lead to the revival of colonialism “If we aren’t careful, a system like REDD may lead to a revision of colonialism. The crucial problem is that we in Tanzania don´t have the required facts about our own forests,” said Professor Claude Mung'ong'o of University of Dar es Salaam's Institute of Resource Assessment to the audience of policy makers and researchers attending the Policy Day of the fifth EfD Annual Meeting 2011.
• 2011-11-08 EfD Meeting in Kiswahili Weekly The just concluded Fifth EfD Annual Meeting in Arusha, Tanzania has transpired in the weekly renowned Swahili Newspaper titled; “Raia Mwema” literally translated as A Good Citizen in its publication of 2nd November, 2011, where an article by Felix Mwakyembe one of the long and renowned journalist was published.
• 2011-10-18 EfD Policy Day: Opportunities for sustainable natural resource use with national and local benefits for Tanzania This Policy Day will bring together researchers and policy makers in a dialogue on Opportunities for sustainable natural resource use with national and local benefits. It is arranged by the Environment for Development initiative, 27 October, in Arusha, Tanzania.
• 2010-12-30 | tanzania | Policy design Policy seminars series, workshops The year 2010 members of the EfDT in collaboration with other members from the Economics department conducted series of policy Seminar/workshops that involves different groups of participants’ at the national as follows:
• 2010-12-16 | tanzania | Policy design Sustainable growth is key in Tanzania´s MKUKUTA 2011-2015 When President Jakaya Kikwete recently signed Tanzania´s new National Strategy for Growth and Reduction of Poverty, it was a milestone to celebrate for EfD Research Fellow John Kedi Mduma. Since 2007 he has been involved in monitoring and reviewing the national strategy. Now he is in the middle of designing the Implementation Guide for the forward-looking strategy for 2011-2015, known as MKUKUTA II in Kiswahili.
• 2010-09-09 EfD Tanzania on the back cover page of MAPAMBANO Magazine Mapambano, which literally mean “fighting,” is a magazine published by the Ministry of Finance and Economic Affairs to brief on Tanzania’s efforts in fighting against all forms of poverty.
• 2010-03-26 | tanzania | Policy design EfD Tanzania contributes to national strategy for poverty reduction A sharper and more focused national strategy for growth and poverty reduction for the coming five years – that is the aim of an ongoing rigorous review of Tanzania´s first National Strategy for Growth and Reduction of Poverty (NSGRP). EfD researcher John Ked Mduma is a technical advisor to the review process under the Minister of Finance and Economic Affairs, and EfD Coordinator Dr. Razack Lokina provides research studies, commissioned by the Government, to fill certain information gaps.
• 2009-07-06 | tanzania | Energy EfD researchers comments on fuel subsidies in Ghana "If you really care about poverty you should subsidise the things the poor need the most - and that is surely not petrol", says Professor Thomas Sterner commenting the current policy debate on fuel subsidies in Ghana, in the newspaper Ghana´s Business and Financial Times. The comment builds on research in a number of different countries conducted by Professor Thomas Sterner to which Dr Robinson and Dr Akpalu are contributing. The research will result in a book.
• 2009-07-01 EfD research fellow appointed head of Economics Department Adolf F. Mkenda is a senior Lecturer in the Economics at the University of Dar es Salaam and a research fellow of EfD Tanzania.
• 2009-05-25 | tanzania | Policy design Mduma technical advisor in MKUKUTA review Dr John Ked Mduma, EfD research fellow in Tanzania is currently a technical advisor to NSGRP, National Strategy for Growth and Reduction of Poverty review process under the Minister of Finance and Economic Affairs.
• 2009-03-24 EfD members attended the WB conference "Land Governance in Support of the MDGs" EfD members from six countries participated in the conference "Land Governance in Support of the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs): Responding to new challenges", held in Washington DC, March 9-10, 2009. Presentations were held by Jintao Xu, EfD in China, Tekie Alemu, EfD in Ethiopia, and Stein Holden, EfD Associate. John Mduma represented EfD Tanzania. Wilfred Nyangena represented EfD in Kenya, and Gunnar Köhlin, EfD Director, participated as chair and discussant.
• 2009-03-13 | tanzania | Fisheries EfD researcher comments on Tanzania´s fisheries governance in This day Dr Lokina coordinator of EfD in Tanzania was interviewed by the daily paper This day, to comment on the strategies on strengthen fisheries governance and legal frameworks to eliminate illegal, unregulated and unreported fishing in the sub regional states of the Indian Ocean.
• 2009-02-27 | tanzania | Climate change Climate change policy research in Tanzania Mark Purdon of the University of Toronto (Canada) carried -out research in collaboration at EfD Tanzania on climate change policy. The subject is the performance of existing projects under the Kyoto Protocol’s carbon offset system Clean Development Mechanism (CDM) operating in Tanzania and their contribution to sustainable regional development, with a focus on land governance.
• 2009-02-24 | tanzania | Forestry EfD research helps villagers save Tanzania’s forests The Deputy Minister for Natural Resources and Tourism, Ezekiel Maige, recently underscored the need for people living around forest reserves to be empowered with forest management skills. Researchers at Environment for Development Tanzania (EfDT), an initiative based at the Department of Economics at the University of Dar es Salaam, have identified a number of critical areas that will help both to protect Tanzania’s forests and the livelihoods of those villagers living close to the forests.
• 2009-01-17 Civil servants attend EfDT training workshop The EfDT organized a training workshop to civil servants drawn from different ministries and departments.
• 2008-12-15 | tanzania | Policy design Determinants of Successful Participatory Forest Management in Tanzania - Policy Brief On Wednesday 10th December 2008, Environment for Development Tanzania held a policy workshop in Dar es Salaam to discuss with key stakeholders the findings from their recently completed research project that addresses the determinants of successful participatory forest management in Tanzania.
• 2008-12-11 Greaker visited the University of Dar es Salaam Associate Professor Mads Greaker visited University of Dar es Salaam and EfD in Tanzania December 8-18. He was collaborating with Associate Professor Håkan Eggert, EfD Tanzania, in a study of biofuels with emphasis on trading aspects.
• 2008-12-02 PhD and MA students supported by EfD Tanzania EfD Tanzania supports PhD and MA students in the Department of Economics who are doing research on environmental economics. Three MA students and one PhD will graduate on 6th December 2008.
• 2008-11-20 Lokina lead a workshop on Poverty-Environment Training Dr. Razack Lokina, Coordinator of EfD in Tanzania, recently lead a workshop on Poverty-Environment Training Manual - Trainer’s guide. UNDP through Ministry of finance and economic affairs (MOFEA) – Poverty eradication Division (PED) commissioned Department of Economics, University of Dar Es Salaam assignment on Research, Training and studies of policy Relevancy to government and UNDP.
• 2008-11-03 | tanzania | Fisheries "Overfishing depletes 'sangara' in Lake Victoria" The Tanzanian newspaper Daily News, one of the biggest English newspapers in the country, interviewed Razack Lokina, fellow reseacher and coordinator of the EfD center in Tanzania, and Hakan Eggert, resident advisor and fellow researcher of the EfD center in Tanzania, on over fishing of Nile perch in Lake Victoria.
• 2008-09-08 Eggert resident advisor at EfD Tanzania "I am excited about being on site to contribute to this new EfD center. Tanzania is poor but possesses great potential, and is now experiencing rapid change. It is great if we can bring environmental economics into that process, and at the same time improve and establish research in this area at University of Dar es Salaam," says Hakan Eggert, Associate Professor at EEU, University of Gothenburg, when taking up his one -year assignment as resident at EfD Tanzania, University of Dar es Salaam (UDSM).
• 2008-01-29 EfD Tanzania Launching Ceremony The Environment for Development Tanzania (EfDT) was inaugurated in Tanzania on January 28. EfD Tanzania is working towards creating a forum where academics, policy makers, and other stakeholders set the research agenda together to address critical environmental and poverty issues.
• 2008-01-28 Håkan Eggert to EfD Tanzania Håkan Eggert, Research Fellow from EfD Sweden, will work as Resident Advisor at EfD Tanzania during 2008/2009. He will participate in the inauguration of the Tanzanian EfD Center on January 28.

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