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MANAGEMENT ISSUES: TANZANIA’S COASTAL FORESTS 2011
Ministry/department Policies Legal Acts
Gender and Children Policy (2000) 2002 and Community Service
Regulation No. 87 of 2004
National Strategy for Gender
Development (2005)
Rural Development Policy (2003)
Ministry of Science, Technology and Higher
Education
Vice President’s Office
National Science and Technology
Policy (1996)
The National Policy on NGOs (2001)
National Environmental Policy (1997)
Integrated Coastal Environment
Management Strategy (2003)
The Environment Management Act
No. 3 of 2004.
Ministry of Livestock Development & Fisheries Livestock Policy (2006)
Ministry of Industry and Trade
National Trade Policy (2003)
Small and Medium Enterprise
Development Policy (2003)
Employment Promotion Services.
Act No. 9 of 1999
Ministry of Works Construction Industry Policy (2003)
Ministry of Communications and Transport
National Information and
Communications Technologies Policy
(2003)
Public Roads Act No. 12 of 2002
4.3 Participatory Forest / Natural Resources Management
There are two types of Participatory Forest Management (PFM) in Tanzania – Joint Forest Management
and Community Based Forest Management.
4.3.1 Joint Forest Management
Joint Forest Management (JFM) is where local people and FBD or District Councils have formed an
agreement over the management of a particular Forest Reserve, or a part of it. The roles and
responsibilities of the community and the government authorities should be clear and there is some
evidence from the coastal forests (and other forest types in Tanzania) that the condition of the forest
within Forest Reserves underJoint Forest Management (JFM) agreements is better than in reserves
where there is no community involvement (Blomley et al. 2008). Within the relevant regions of
Tanzania well over 100 villages are involved with JFM, covering at least 200,000 ha of reserved land.