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Rediscovering Forests

KCDE’s Commitment Amid a Warming Climate

Forests are essential to life on Earth, supporting ecosystems, regulating the climate, and providing resources for both humans and wildlife. At a recent conference in Arusha, KCDE with the support of KAS Tanzania brought together faith-based organizations, eco-stakeholders, and environmental advocates to address the urgent need for forest preservation as a proactive step toward COP29. This gathering emphasized the role of forests in climate resilience, biodiversity, and sustainable development.

Seminar

Youth-Led Climate Action and Business Innovation Training Program

Empowering Tanzania’s Young Entrepreneurs

The Youth-led Solutions for Climate Action and Business Innovation Training Program, held in Iringa, Tanzania, equipped 25 young Tanzanians, aged 18–25, with essential skills to address climate challenges through sustainable entrepreneurship. This five-day program, organized by Launchpad Tanzania (LP Digital) in collaboration with Restless Development, targeted youth from agricultural and climate-focused backgrounds across Iringa’s districts, empowering them to become leaders in climate-responsive business ventures.

Expert panel

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A ROUND TABLE DISCUSSION

COP 28 AND TANZANIA’S NATIONALLY DETERMINED CONTRIBUTIONS (NDC’s)

The United Nations’ Climate Change Conference (UNFCCC), Conference of Parties (COP28) is scheduled to take place in the United Arab Emirates, Dubai from 30th November to 12th December, 2023. It’s major goal is to critically reassess the real implementation of 2015 Paris Climate Agreement as the COP 26 Glasgow Climate Pact and COP 27 Shamel Sheikh’s Implementation Plan. The main COP 28 Agenda will be: Loss and Damage, Climate Finance and Just Energy Transition Partnerships (JETP). Climate Science shows that the Current Emissions and Global Warming Projections are reaching catastrophic proportions and levels particularly in Greenhouse gasses emissions whereby last year 2022 the warning levels reached 1.15oC. Undoubtedly, these facts pose untold and unprecedented critical quantitative and qualitative humano – economic, existential, health, educational, social, nutritional, political, infrastructural dilemmas, challenge, risks and vulnerabilities both to people, planet and biodiversity to thousands of years to come. Hence, threatening common wellbeing, peace and security of humanity the planet locally and globally than ever before. It is an undeniable fact that Africa (including) Tanzania is the most affected continent. In response to this the Konrad Adenauer Stiftung (KAS) in Tanzania collaboration with the Kilimanjaro Consortium for Development and Environment (KCDE) based in Kilimanjaro, deemed it relevant and critical to engage Pre-COP 28 Stakeholders, academia, policy makers and climate experts for round table discussions and consultations as effective spaces and opportunity for collective awareness, accountability and action. More urgent and critical, in order to adequately achieve the Goals of the 2015, Paris Climate edifice, the following fundamental pillars and regimes in particular, need urgent evaluative focus and prioritization in particular: (A) Nationally Determined Contributions (NDC’s) general and specific status in Tanzania. (B) Tanzania recent Nationally Contributions in particular: a critical post- mortem and deep analysis on: - Adaptation Contributions - Mitigation Contributions (C) Tanzania’s Critical Gap’s Weaknesses and Discrepancies: Calibrating: - Ambition gaps - Budgetary gaps - Policy gaps - Managerial/Leadership gaps - Organizational and Planning gaps - Technical resilience and expertise gaps - Human Resource mobilization gaps - Non-human resource mobilization gaps (D) The Critical role of Cities and Urban Contents in Climate Change Mitigation.

Discussion

Scholar’s networking breakfast meeting.

Building bridges between Scholars

Online seminar

Tanzania Agency in the international System

On 24 November 2022, the Chatham House Africa Program, in partnership with KAS, convened a public webinar event on Tanzanian foreign policy.

The Webinar explored Tanzania’s international partnerships and external engagements in a context of global geopolitical change marked by war in Ukraine, climate change and the recovery from the COVID-19 pandemic. It also marked the first in a series in partnership with KAS on Tanzania’s Foreign Policy Agenda: Economic Diplomacy and International Agency.

Discussion

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Youth Workshop on Peace Making and Conflict Resolution.

A series of presentations along with in-depth discussion, questions and answers sessions on peace and conflict resolution.

Three-day workshop which exposed youth in-depth discussion on peace building and conflict resolution. Youth were empowered to understand how to keep peace and resolve conflicts from personal, group, community to state level.

Event

EU-Project Launch "Together for peace"

KAS Tanzania in partnership with ZAFELA is implementing an EU funded project, contributing to conflict resolution and a peaceful political environment in Zanzibar

“Together For Peace” will focus on capacity building, strengthening dialogues between targeted members of political parties, religious leaders and CSOs as well as engaging in an exchange of opinions towards resolving any political conflicts spearheading peace building in Zanzibar.

Workshop

CETA WORKSHOP ON YOUTH PEACE MAKING AND CONFLICT RESOLUTION.

KAS in collaboration with Civic Education Teachers Association (CETA) convened a Youth Workshop on Peace Making and Conflict Resolution in Bukoba .

Peace and conflict are interesting and cross-cutting topics of discussion, they are pervasive and they affect different aspects of human life, be it political, economic, social or cultural aspect. Young people are among the major category of human population who are affected positively or negatively by pervasiveness of peace and conflicts respectively. In many parts of the World, particularly in Great Lakes Region of Africa which includes; Tanzania, Kenya, Uganda, Democratic Republic of Congo, Republic of Congo, Burundi, Rwanda, and South Sudan.

Workshop

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Youth Workshop on Peace Keeping, Conflict Prevention, and Resolution

Civic education as a tool for promoting peace and security

Specialist conference

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Demography and Urbanisation as 21st Century Challenge for Politicians

1st Network Meeting for KAS Partners from East Africa

Population increase in East Africa will have disrupting impact on socio-economic development and requires policy adjustments. Unfortunately, within many countries debate on issues of urbanisation and demographics is rare. Hence, this conference aims to bring together researchers to debate and connect on emerging challenges.

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KCDE’s Commitment Amid a Warming Climate

Rediscovering Forests; A Proactive Step Toward COP29

Forests are essential to life on Earth, supporting ecosystems, regulating the climate, and providing resources for both humans and wildlife. At a recent conference in Arusha, KCDE with the support of KAS Tanzania brought together faith-based organizations, eco-stakeholders, and environmental advocates to address the urgent need for forest preservation as a proactive step toward COP29. This gathering emphasized the role of forests in climate resilience, biodiversity, and sustainable development.

Youth-Led Climate Action and Business Innovation Training Program

Empowering Tanzania’s Young Entrepreneurs

This initiative was designed to harness the creativity and potential of young Tanzanians to address the effects of climate change in rural communities through business. Major goals included: * Providing practical skills in entrepreneurship, financial literacy, and digital marketing tailored for climate action. * Encouraging creativity and innovative thinking to develop solutions that build resilience in agriculture and related sectors. * Promoting Sustainable Development Goals with a focus on Climate Action (SDG 13) and Decent Work and Economic Growth (SDG 8). * Establishing a network of young leaders equipped to drive change and contribute meaningfully to Tanzania’s development goals.

Roundtable Discussion

Urban Resilience and Local Governance in Tanzania

ICLEI-Local Governments for Sustainability Africa (ICLEI Africa) is collaborating with Konrad Adenauer Stiftung (KAS) Tanzania to publish a series of thought pieces on Urban Resilience and Local Governance in Tanzania. This short-term project draws upon ICLEI-Africa’s vast experience working in Tanzania’s urban sector and seeks to explore urban resilience in the country’s main urban centres from various perspectives. It is also in line with KAS Tanzania’s interest in urbanisation and resilience issues from a political lens.

Social market Economy Model for Tanzania (SMET)

Engaging Key Stakeholders in Economic Issues for Shaping a better Tomorrow

A brief report on SMET discussion with postgraduate students at the Institute of Accountancy Arusha followed with a round table discussion meeting with business community, professional’s and key policy makers aimed at creating awareness about social market economic model in Tanzania. The discussion also aimed at encouraging students to undertake further research on SMET model in Tanzania to catalyse more discussions at various levels of policy implememtation.

Capacity building to Women on Peace Building and Prevention of Youth Radicalization

Inter-Religious Council for Peace Tanzania

The Inter-Religious Council for Peace Tanzania (IRCPT) partnered with the Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung (KAS) to conduct Zonal Trainings on Peace and Reconciliation Skills for Religious Leaders. These trainings were held at Kyusa Hotel Kigoma from April 25th to 27th, 2023, and at Dolphin Hotel Tanga from May 16th to 18th, 2023. The primary goal was to equip religious leaders with the tools to prevent radicalization, violent extremism, and offensive religious ideologies from taking its roots in society. The training focused on promoting dialogue, early conflict prevention mechanisms, and media engagement to address social and political challenges.

Tanzania’s regional role Governance, mediation and economic diplomacy

Roundtable Meeting

The roundtable marked the second event in a project partnership series between KAS and Chatham House on Tanzania’s Foreign Policy Agenda: Economic Diplomacy and International Agency. The series aims to encourage informed dialogue and debate at an important moment for Tanzania’s external engagements: the country’s main foreign relations strategy document, the ‘New Foreign Policy’, was adopted in 2001, but an official review has been commissioned by President Samia Suluhu Hassan and is to take place in 2023.

Social market Economy Model for Tanzania (SMET)

Discussions and Critical Review of the Social Market Economy Model for Tanzania (SMET) as an alternative economic model for Tanzania.

A two-day experts’ roundtable discussion aimed at bringing social market economy model for Tanzania into the lens of economists and think tanks for critical analysis and proposing strategies for rolling it out and adoption in Tanzania. The event gathered economists and other key stakeholders from universities, civil society organizations and the private sector.

Tanzania's Global Economic Diplomacy

Evaluating International Partnerships for Prosperity

On 27 July 2023, the Chatham House Africa Programme and the Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung (KAS) Tanzania office convened a private roundtable meeting in Dar es Salaam. The discussion focused on the priorities for Tanzania’s engagement on the international stage, including the effectiveness of global partnerships for trade, investment and infrastructure development, and the country’s agency in responding to shared challenges such as climate change.

Workshop on promotion of Social Market Economy – Tanzania Model (SMET)

Conducted by KAS in collaboration with its partner Tanzania Episcopal Conference (TEC)

Youth Workshop on Peace Keeping, Conflict Prevention and Resolution in Kigoma

CETA and KAS have organized a three-day workshop on peace keeping