Policy Forum

Policy Forum has produced an advert on Mining and Energy Sectors in Tanzania which is lately being aired on two Tanzanian Television Stations which are ITV and Star TV. The advert is aimed at making ordinary citizens of Tanzania question their leaders about their mining resource which should be used to benefit the Tanzanians and not otherwise. See the advert below

We, the Inter-faith Standing Committee on Economic Justice and Integrity of Creation and members of Policy Forum, having gathered at the alternative Mining Conference in Arusha from the 19th and 20th October 2011 have deliberated for two days on the negative impacts of mining on communities and the environment, we issue a call to the Tanzania government and parliament to live up to their mandated roles by acting on behalf of com

Policy Forum has just received the Constitutional Review Bill, of October 2011 which has been drafted and released by the Government to provide for the coordination, and collection of public opinions on the new constitution; to establish an institutional framework for the coordination and collection of public opinions; to provide for national fora for constitutional review for validation of legislative proposal for a constitution and to provide for the preparation of a referendum.  Please see attached document below.

We, 642 persons coming from 93 countries and representing 450 organisations of peasant and
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