Tanzania Natural Resource Forum

Founded in 2001, the Tanzania Natural Resource Forum (TNRF) is a membership-based organisation that focuses on improving natural resource governance in Tanzania. TNRF aims to bridge the gap between local natural resource management needs and practices, on the one hand, and national natural resource management priorities, policies, law and programmes, on the other hand. It seeks to improve governance and accountability in Tanzania’s natural resource sector to achieve more sustainable rural livelihoods and better conversation outcomes by bringing together a diverse range of stakeholders and interests to share information, collaborate and pool resources together towards realising common goals. TNRF has a membership of more than 3,800 people and organisations, supporting professional staff, and a steering committee drawn from the membership.

=Gas related activities= TNRF facilitates multi-stakeholder dialogues on land and investment in Tanzania to address potential areas for natural resource conflict, including land conflicts resulting from gas and oil exploration and production.

TNRF is a member of the Extractive Industry Working Group that advises the Tanzania Government and comments on draft policies governing the oil and gas sector in the country.

A joint statement of the group found shortcoming in the draft natural gas policy in 2013 for failing to contain several important specific provisions on the private sector as well as on gender issues. With regard to the private sector, the group emphasised the importance of explicitly detailing how the private sector would be involved in various areas the policy addresses. This is not the case under the present policy.

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