Isaac Malugu- Forest Programme Coordinator 14th May 2014

Tanzania Country Office

The Forest Programme at TCO

•Started in 1994

•The priority areas: Eastern Arc mountains (Udzungwa,Uluguru & East Usambara) and Coastal Forests Landscapes.

•High richness, species diversity, endemism & functional ecosystems

•Covers more than more than 1,000,000Ha (including Protected Areas)

•Supports livelihoods for more 2 million people

Projects

Udzungwa Mts National Park

Coastal Forests

Ruvuma landscapeREDD MRV +

East Usambara Forest Land Restoration

Gazettement of Derema Corridor

– E.Usmbaras

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Funding Barclays - WWF- UK

1%CEPF6%

Darwin2%

FAO1%

GEF28%

WWF -NO6%

WWF- CH2%

WWF DK1%

WWF- FIN21%

WWF Sweden

4%

WWF- UK27%

biodiversity40%

REDD6%

Community livelihood1%

forest governance4%

forest utilization1%

Species4%

PFM44%

Project interventions

ACHIEVEMENTS Landscape Restorations

• Landscape restorations through spatial linkages of corridors, HCVF and Protected Areas, ca > 1,000,000Ha

•Promoting approaches like PFM, Land use planning and agroforestry

•Connectivity of HCVF – Derema, Mngeta, Uzungwa, Bunduki corridors

•Rediscovery of 2 ‘extinct’ species

•Improvement in Management effectiveness

•Promoting CBFM - Village Land Forest Reserves - Harvesting plans.

•Working with Local partner MCDI, - Group Certification Scheme > 100,000Ha

•Promoting Forest Governance - Mama Misitu campaign, FLEGT and Timber Trade.

•Drafting of National FSC Standards

ACHIEVEMENTS Sustainable Forest Management

•Ruvuma landscape: scaling up of SFM models. Working with partners on PFM & certification schemes

•REDD + - Monitoring, Reporting and Verification (MRV) and scenario planning.

• 150 Permanent Sample Plots

•Working with partners to collate information.

•Feeding data into National Carbon Monitoring Centre (NCMC)

ACHIEVEMENTS Green Growth

•Sustainable Charcoal Productions using efficient kilns

•Promoting tree planting, agroforestry and woodlot

ACHIEVEMENTS Biomass energy

ACHIEVEMNTSPolicy, Advocacy and Lobbying

•Biofuel guidelines adopted to be National Biofuel Guidelines

•Lobbying for upgrades of some National Forests Reserves into Nature Reserves (Kilombero, Rondo and Ulugurus)

•Lobbying for Payment for Ecosystem Services (PES)

•Lobbying for MOU signing on Timber trade (Tz-Mz; Tz – Ke)

ACHIEVEMENTSPartnerships

HAKIARDHI

TRAFFIC

LESSONS LEARNING

•Strengthening partnerships in addressing forest governances

through dialogue and opportunities for knowledge & information

sharing.

•Promoting CBRNM: Incentivising communities, benefit sharing

and voices towards sustainable forest management

• The current wave on Land based investment, should be tackled

and handled . Governance of land, natural resources and

investment activities must be strengthened

Challenges

•Timber moratorium in 2005 & 2010 brought under cover

governance challenges

•Biomass Energy becoming a serious driver.

• Use rights and gender: Community benefits and livelihoods –

opportunity costs.

•Institutional set up - CBFM, TFS, Policy frameworks on NRs

(Land, Forests, Minerals, Oils & Gas, etc).

Extending the Coastal Forest Protected Area Subsystem

• The Coastal Forest Biodiversity and Ecosystem Values are conserved and provide sustainable benefit flows at local, national and global levels.

• The spatial coverage and management effectiveness of the Coastal Forest PA sub system is expanded and strengthened.

• So far more than 1,000,000Ha are annexed in the PAs

Ungazzeted massive forest !

Ngarama forest reserve

Pindiro Kilwa

Lindi

Thank you