PAMLOMO-SAUTI YA JAMII

By Friday Simbaya, Njombe ENVIRONMENTAL stakeholders are advised to protect the environment even after donors have pullout because the breakdown of the shovel is not the end of a blacksmith. The statement was issued by the community development officers (CDOs) from WWF-Tanzania, Martha Sanga and Evergris Makfura, while closing a workshop of stakeholders of management of water resources and the environment in Makambako, Njombe region. They said at different times that citizens, stakeholders and environmentalists should continue even after the program expires, because environmental protection is everyone's responsibility. They said that the issue of the management of water resources and environment is not for donors, but it is everyone's responsibility to ensure environmental preserved. WWF through its Ruaha Water Program (RWP) in collaboration with the Rufiji Basin Water Board (RBWB), district councils, citizens and environmental stakeholders imp...

Sunset at the historic Menara garden in Marrakech, Morocco, (AP Photo/Mosa'ab Elshamy) Marrakech, Morocco After last year’s adoption of the Paris Agreement, the Marrakech climate summit – which closed last week and was billed Africa’s COP – focused on issues for its implementation, including finance. Transparency was central to that discussion. But while the so-called Paris rulebook has until 2018 to be defined, time is running out for many of the continent’s countries on the frontline of climate change facing prolonged droughts, flooding and extreme temperatures. Finding funding to help deal with such effects, let alone reduce emissions, is key. African states, together with other likeminded countries, have long pressured developed countries to boost financial support. Those controlling the purse strings however have been reluctant, saying greater transparency was needed to assure that money was going to where it is needed. A report earlier this year by T...

Chama cha Wamiliki/Waendeshaji mitandao ya kijamii nchini (Tanzania Bloggrs Network-TBN) mapema leo Disemba, 2 imekabidhiwa cheki maalum ya kiasi cha Tsh. Milioni 10, fedha zilizotolewa na benki ya NMB kama wadhamini wakuu wa Mkusanyiko wa ‘Bloggers’ kutoka maeneo mbalimbali ya mikoa ya Tanzania Bara na Visiwani Zanzibar. Katika tukio hilo, Mwenyekiti wa muda wa TBN, Bwana Joachim Mushi amepongeza benki ya NMB kwa kuweza kudhamini tukio hilo muhimu na la kihistoria kwani litasaidia wana blogger kwa ujumla kuweza kukutana pamoja na kujifunza kile ambacho wanapaswa kuwahabarisha Umma kupitia blog zao. “Tunawapongeza benki ya NMB kwa udhamini huu na tunawaomba sana waendelee kutudhamini kwani kazi iliyopo mbele yetu kwa sasa ni kutoa elimu sahihi kwa wenzetu ambao watajumuika katika mkutano huu utakaofanyika siku mbili yaani 5 na 6 Desemba,2016. Kwa washiriki takribani 150 kutoka Tanzania nzima ambapo pia tukio hilo litafuatiwa na mkutano mkuu kwa wanachama hai wa TBN...

WANANCHI na wadau mbalimbali wa mazingira wameshauriwa kutunza mazingira hata baada ya wafadhili kumaliza mradi wao kwani kuvunjika kwa koleo sio mwisho wa uhunzi. Kauli hiyo imetolewa na maofisa maendeleo jamii wa shirika la kuhifadhi la mazingira duniani (WWF-Tanzania), Martha Sanga na Evergris Makfura wakati wakifunga warsha ya wadau ya usimamizi wa rasilimali za maji na mazingira  mjiini Makambako, mkoani Njombe. Walisema katika nyakati tofauti kuwa wananchi na wadau mbalimbali wa mazingira wanabudi kuendelea hata baada ya programu ya maji Ruaha kumaliza muda wake, kwani utunzaji wa mazingira ni jukumu la kila mtu. Walisema kuwa suala la usimamizi wa rasilimali za maji na mazingira sio la wafadhili, bali ni jukumu la kila mmoja kuhakikisha mazingira yanatunzwa. Shirika la WWF kwa kupitia Programu yake ya Maji Ruaha (RWP) kwa kushirikiana na Bodi ya Maji Bonde la Rufiji (RBWB), halmashauri, wananchi na wadau mbalimbali wa mazing...