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6.3.1.3 Coordination of activities and stakeholdersThe broad participation needed for REDD+ and the magnitude of activities alreadyperformed both within various sectors and having started up as a result of REDD+,preconditions proper coordination. The same applies for the various policies and actswhich govern said activities. We will come back to this later. Nationally, both intersectoraland cross-sectoral coordination has previously been lacking, and has beenaccounted to contribute to the failure of previous forest conservation efforts. As wehave previously seen, the coordination between the Vice President´s Office - Divisionof Environment and the NEMC has been poor given the lack of guidelines, resultingin an overlapping of responsibilities and a struggle over whom to oversee what withinthe area of environmental issues. And this is further complicated by the MNRT whichalso has a mandate that overlaps with those of the NEMC and VPO-DoE. Crosssectoralcoordination has not been much better.With a system unable to deal with conflicting interests and activities, either betweenForest Dependent communities and the Forest Department or between developmentactivities within different sectors such as forestry and agriculture, it has placed theentire forest resource under jeopardy and compromised stakeholders` underlyinginterests of a well-managed forest for sustainable livelihood (United Republic ofTanzania 2010). The strategy has thus put forward the need to create a system whichcan both coordinate horizontally across sectors, such as agriculture, wildlife andforestry, and vertically between parastatal, central or local government institutions. Inorder to do this, they emphasise a problem solving approach which includes multisectoralcollaboration and the formation of an expanded partnership which willresolve conflicts and improve the overall quality of management of forest resource inthe context of REDD+ (United Republic of Tanzania 2010, p.26.). Specific details onhow this will be achieved, has not been put forward. However, we expect the REDD+Action Plan will shed more light on this issue.Since its establishment, the REDD+ Taskforce, facilitated by the REDD+ Secretariat,has had the overall responsibility of coordinating all REDD+ activities and creating awell functioning and efficient coordination system which includes all the necessarystakeholders. Given the temporary nature of these two bodies, though, theresponsibility will in the future be transferred to the NCCSC which will work as theREDD+ coordination office and the NCCTC which will function as the overseer of alltechnical issues related to REDD+ implementation (United Republic of Tanzania157