Meeting

Invitation to Meeting on Climate Change and REDD in Tanzania and East Africa

We are pleased to invite you to a Tanzanian Civil Society Forum on Climate Change (Forum CC) and Tanzania Forest Conservation Group (TFCG) organized meeting on:

Climate Change and REDD in Tanzania and East Africa

This will review the UNFCCC CoP15 (Copenhagen Meeting) and Discuss the implications and way forward.

Tuesday 30 and Wednesday 31 March 2010 * 09:30 - 17:30
Dar es Salaam International Conference Centre (DICC), Dar es Salaam

In late 2009 the Finnish Embassy commissioned the University of Dar es Salaam's Department of Economics to review the Mama Misitu Campaign on Illegal Logging. The evaluation report, submitted in January 2010, assesses the impact of the campaign in relation to its goals. The campaign, which is a project of the Tanzania Forest Working Group, finished its pilot phase in December 2009. The evaluation is an important part of planning for the full implementation of the campaign in 2010.

Please join us in a get-together to remember and celebrate Alan Rodgers at the Little Theatre in Dar es Salaam on 9th April 2010. Alan died on Tuesday 31st March 2009. Please pass this invitation on to anyone who knew or worked with Alan - everyone is very welcome.

Colleagues are warmly invited to contribute a short talk of no more than 15-20 minutes about a piece of work related to or collaboratively carried out with Alan.

A regular meeting of the Tanzania Forestry Working Group - Discussion topics will include the implementation phase of the Mama Misitu Campaign against illegal logging, the next steps for Independent Forest Monitoring in Tanzania after the design phase, and the establishment of a Forest Governance Learning Group in Tanzania.

Agenda

1. Mama Misitu project

• Where we came from
• Where we are
• What we will focus on in the future

2. Independent Forest Monitoring