DPG – Environment and Natural Resources

Presentation to Honourable Minister of Natural Resources and Tourism

Mr. Anthony Diallo

– Challenges and opportunities in the Natural Resources Sector

– DPG-Environment and Natural Resources – Commitment to Government Frameworks– Solutions and immediate steps

ChallengesNatural Resources sector complexities:• Various tenure and utilisation arrangements• Stakeholders at different levels competing for resources (e.g.

water for irrigation, livestock, hydropower etc.)• Need for ensuring the balance between utilisation and

conservation • Use of tools such as licenses, quotas, bans etc.• Service delivery to other sectors and geographical areas (e.g.

95% of energy supplied by forests in various ways), with insufficient compensation arrangements

• Global influences e.g. Climate Change with mitigation and adaptation challenges

Challenges continued…

Current (Pres.) attention:• Drought and energy crisis

with links to NR

• Mismanagement and good governance in NRM

In general, cases of poor governance, e.g. log-scams, continues to occur…

Responses:• Tree planting campaign,

logging and transportation ban

• Within existing government frameworks e.g. Forestry Policy, Act and Programme?

• Appropriate and adequate responses?

Lost Opportunities for Poverty Reduction

Poor depend on NR:

• Own consumption e.g. firewood for cooking, fish and bush meat (about 1/3) for protein intake

• Income from sale of processed/un-processed resources (e.g. honey, dried fish, charcoal, etc.)

• Employment (and income) in resource utilisation, e.g. jobs in tourism, fish industry etc.

Challenges remain:• Provision exist for community-

based management in legal frameworks, but not fully implemented, delayed and/or unattractive

• Not sufficient number of jobs in NR industry created in Tanzania, and benefits not always shared

• Un-compensated environmental services

Lost Opportunities for Growth(Top NR based growth sectors are : Mining, Tourism, Hunting and Fisheries)

However, potential exists:• Managing state owned forest

plantation (135-230,000 ha) through Private-Public-Community Concession Arrangements

• Wildlife-based tourism expansion and diversification of tourism products e.g. expansion to the southern and western tourism circuit

Growth hampered by:• Limited knowledge about

abundance and exploitation limited – sustainable growth levels difficult to predict

• Current private sector experience disincentives for investments e.g. in forestry

Lost Opportunities for Revenue Generation

Revenue collection suffering:• Limited info about value and

lack of efficiency and transparency in revenue collection (e.g. annual license for foreign fisheries vessel equals earnings from 1 day’s catch!)

• Revenue collection not used as a management tool to guide/direct resource exploitation to specific resources/species and geographical areas

However, potential is high:• Fisheries TSh 9.7 billion in

revenue in 2004• Forestry TSh 11.4 billion in

revenue last year• Tourism annual growth rate in

revenue app. 30% - based primarily on wildlife

DPG-Environment and Natural Resources

- Terms of Reference ”to increase the effectiveness of Development Partners’ efforts to support a concerted environment and Natural Resources agenda and provide coordinated contributions”

- Participants: Belgium, CIDA, Danida (chair), EU, FAO, Finland, GTZ, ILO, Netherlands, Norway, USAID, UNDP, UN-Habitat, UNIDO, World Bank

- Produced briefs on Forestry, Fisheries and Wildlife (specifically hunting) outlining challenges and opportunities in sectors, which links the sectors to poverty reduction and good governance

DP commitment to Government Frameworks • MKUKUTA acknowledges natural resources challenges, and

policy and legal frameworks largely in place: (a) Forestry, (b)Fisheries, (c) Wildlife (though revisions necessary).

• DPs support implementation of existing legal framework & assist in addressing specific emergency cases (e.g. Independent Forest Monitoring)

• DPs committed to harmonisation and alignment, good governance and and broad sector perspective – incl. private sector and civil society (e.g. forestry SWAp initiated)

• DPs encourage sector coordination and dialogue:– Within MNRT: Coordination across divisions and improved policy &

planning sub-sector engagement e.g. in M&E– Closer cooperation between MNRT and VPO-DoE & NEMC, and use of

Environment Working Group

Solutions from DP point of view• Implementation of existing legal framework

– Strengthening of enforcement

– Increasing capacity and efficiency e.g. change management in establishment of TFS

• Promoting ”correct” incentives for sustainable management for the benefit of Tanzania – in line with existing Government frameworks:– ”Healthy” private sector involvement e.g. removing barriers

and creating effective market based competition

– Securing rights to resources of communities, and strengthen their capacity for NR management

Immediate steps

Time is opportune for:• Government review of the sector incl. Ministry of

Finance review of NR revenue collection• High level Government retreat to discuss state of the

sector – amongst others to facilitate the work of the new Cabinet Committee on Environment

• Responses initiated building upon existing Government frameworks

DPs committed to assist in any way possible!