Gender and REDD+ in Tanzania An overview of key issues

EngenderHealth
EnviroCare
Reproductive health organization working to improve the
quality of health care in the world’s poorest communities.
EngenderHealth empowers people to make informed
choices about contraception, trains health providers to make
motherhood safer, promotes gender equity, enhances the
quality of HIV and AIDS services, and advocates for positive
policy change.
Mission: “promote and support environmental conservation
and livelihood with a gender, human rights based and
participatory approach through advocacy, capacity building
and action research.”
Programme on “Engaging Men as Partners”
o CHAMPION project: engaging men in preventing the
spread of HIV in Tanzania
o AQUIRE Tanzania Project: “advocates at the national
level for greater attention to male gender norms and
provides training and assistance to local PEPFAR
partners to integrate male engagement approaches in
their programs.”
“GENDER: Envirocare has been outspoken in advocating
for women's rights and agricultural policies favorable to the
environments and the whole community, its compulsory to
every project under taken to consider equity, accountability,
transparency and social justice a good example being a
project under taken on promotion of good forest governance
at community level based on social justice, equity, and
transparency in 2010”
“Environmental Conservation: As part of environmental
conservation, Envirocare has worked with communities to
promote tree-planting both at household level and at
community level through Participatory forest management, a
good example being tree planting in Kahe ward Moshi-rural
with an estimation of over 300,000 trees planted, also along
Rombo primary school in moshi in which not less than
100,000 trees where planted, mangrove planting also was
initiated in Mkinga district Tanga with an estimation of over 5
millions mangrove plants being planted”
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www.envirocaretz.org/
P.O. Box 9824
Kinondoni district
Tel:
+255 222701507
Email:
envirocare_2002@yahoo.co
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City: Dar es Salaam
Country:Tanzania
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