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CHAPTER EIGHT – EVALUATION OF TFCG ANDMJUMITA´S PILOT PROJECT “MAKING REDD WORKFOR COMMUNITIES AND FOREST CONSERVATIONIN TANZANIAThe Tanzania Forest Conservation Group (TFCG) in collaboration with TanzaniaCommunity Forest Conservation Network (MJUMITA) started their project “MakingREDD work for communities and forest conservation in Tanzania” in August 2009.This project, located in the two project sites Lindi and Kilosa district, will run for 5years and phase out in August 2014. Within the financial frames of US$ 5,914,353, atleast 50,000 hectares of Montane and Lowland Coastal/Miombo forest in the EasternArc Mountains and Coastal Forest biodiversity hotspot and as much as 25,000persons living in 20 communities engaged in either CBFM or JFM, will benefit fromthe project (TFCG and MJUMITA 2009).In line with our final objective, in this chapter we will look at and make an evaluationof TFCG and MJUMITAs project which is currently being implemented as part ofTanzania‟s´ piloting phase under the process of establishing REDD.Returning to our focus on REDD as a new type of resource regime we will again drawon the relevant theory which is included within the Resource Regime Framework andview the evaluation which follows in these terms. As we have moved down to a locallevel our main focus will now be on the economical actors, i.e. local forest users; theirpreferences and actions; and their patterns of interaction, much on the basis of ourfindings from the previous chapter. And as our model lies forth, these forest users arehighly influenced by the resource regimes in place, which in turn are governed bylocal and national institutions. With the introduction of the REDD pilot project in thearea these realities will most likely change and, as our objective states, we areconcerned with whether or not REDD as a new resource regime will be able to reduceemissions from deforestation and forest degradation while at the same time bebeneficial for the local population which relies on these forests.Firstly we introduce TFCG and MJUMITA as organizations and look at their abilityto implement and run REDD+ in terms of their capacities and experiences within thefield of forest conservation and participation with local communities, as well as thepresence of additional expertise needed to establish a REDD+ pilot project. Then we218