United Republic of Tanzania Archives

Photo of container ship in Hong Kong Harbour

Major new project to address trade challenge

Press release / A new multi-million project will aim to make trade a positive force for both marginalised people and nature conservation.

22 January 2019 / About Business, Ecosystems, Food and agriculture, Forests and Land use

Resilience of the Eastern African electricity sector to climate driven changes in hydropower generation

Journal article / This study finds that the most resilient energy plan for the Eastern African Power Pool is one that assumes a slightly wetter climate than historical trends.

17 January 2019 / About Adaptation, Planning and modelling and Renewables

Lessons for solar mini-grids from rural Tanzania

Perspective / SEI researchers followed the adoption of solar mini-grids in rural Tanzania to understand their impact and sustainability.

10 December 2018 / About Behaviour and choice, Energy access and Household energy

Africa Biogas Partnership Program: A review of clean cooking implementation through market development in East Africa

Journal article / This paper analyses the Africa Biogas Partnership Program (ABPP) in Kenya, Tanzania and Uganda.

20 June 2018 / About Household energy

Photo of Western Usambara Mountains, Tanzania -Photo David Ashby (CC2.0)

REDD+, hype, hope and disappointment: The dynamics of expectations in conservation and development pilot projects

Journal article / This paper explores the dynamics of expectations in international forest conservation and development programs.

1 September 2018 / About Adaptation, Forests, Land use and Mitigation

Photo of Usambara Mountains in Tanzania - https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Usambara.jpg By Deogratiusf2 [CC BY-SA 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0)], from Wikimedia Commons

Local costs of conservation exceed those borne by the global majority

Journal article / Conservation planning tools and processes need to consider local costs as well as broader benefits.

18 April 2018 / About Ecosystems and Forests

Connecting people – Kalenge village waits for electrification

Feature / Kalenge, a village northwest of Tanzania, is unelectrified; its households have no connections to a central or local power grid.

17 October 2017 / About Energy access, Household energy and Renewables

Construction workers beneath a large lattice-like structure of metal and wires.

Catalysing investment in sustainable energy infrastructure in Africa: overcoming financial and non-financial constraints

SEI working paper / Challenges and tensions arise in financing energy infrastructure in sub-Saharan Africa. We explore this through case studies from Tanzania and Zambia.

18 January 2017 / About Energy access