As the Minister for Finance tables the National Budget for Financial Year 2012/13 in Parliament tomorrow, we, members of the Policy Forum Budget Working Group, representing over 100 different Civil Society Organisations working together to increase informed civil society participation in policy making, would like to make our contribution to this key process.
Policy Forum this week held a special half-day discussion on illicit financial flows from Africa with two international experts on the topic. Raymond Baker, the founder and CEO of the Global Financial Integrity, the leading global institute on illicit financial flow studies was joined by Alvin Mosioma, Coordinator of the Tax Justice Network for Africa, an institution which aims to promote socially just, democratic and progressive taxation systems in Africa.
Policy Forum elected its new Board of Directors during its 2012 Annual General Meeting held in Dar es Salaam on the 4th of May. The outgoing board members are Julie Adkins of SNV Tanzania, Esther Mongi of World Vision Tanzania, Emmanuel Kallonga of HAKIKAZI-Catalyst and Kellen Mngoya of HAFOTA who retired during this AGM leaving behind Sr.
The Secretariat of Policy Forum, on behalf of the entire network’s members, mourns the sudden death of Steven Kanumba, a film Director and actor who worked with Policy Forum on dramatizing the Social Accountability Monitoring concept.
The screenplay concept that Policy Forum, its scriptwriters and Kanumba jointly developed, resulted in the production of the movie “Kijiji cha Tambua Haki”, a tale that depicts the everyday struggles of rural community members in the fight for accountable local governance.
WE, the undersigned Tanzanian Civil Society Organizations virtually convened on 13th March, 2012 to discuss the proposed EU regulations on mandatory disclosure on extractives and logging and its implications to the governance of Tanzanian oil, gas, mineral and forest sectors.
RE-AFFIRMour commitment to promote transparent, effective and efficient management of extractive resources in practice beyond just empty words; this takes strong, robust and credible monitoring mechanisms
This is to inform Policy Forum members and the general public that with effect from March 12th 2012, Policy Forum office will be moving from Plot 270 Kiko Avenue, Hence, our new physical address will be:
Plot 14, House 752
Sembeti Street (Off Old BAgamoyo Road)
Mikocheni B
Dar es Salaam
Our Postal Address, Email, website and Mobile Number REMAINS THE SAME
OUR NEW landline Telephone number is +255 22 2780200
The Tanzania Human Rights Defenders Coalition (THRD- Coalition) under the coordination of the Legal and Human Rights Centre (LHRC) and the Policy Forum network of Civil Society Organisations would like to call upon the government to release its 16 human rights activists who at the time of going to press, were arrested at the Muhimbili National Hospital (MNH) in Dar es Salaam at around noon on February 9th, 2012. The move came a day after activists in Tanzania blocked the road to press the government to reconcile with striking doctors who for the past one month have refused to work, freezi
Policy Forum, in collaboration with Kanumba the Great Films, proudly wishes to present the 'Kijiji cha Tambua Haki' Film.
Offficiating a promotional session of the film at the Regency Park Hotel on the 8th February 2012, Mr. Hebron Mwakagenda, the Convenor of the Policy Forum Local Governance Working Group (LGWG) said the Kijiji cha Tambua Haki Film aims at educating the society on good governance and social accountability at local and national level.
Your Excellency the guest of honour, Honourable Peter Mizengo Pinda – The Prime Minister of the United Republic of Tanzania,
Distinguished guests at the high table,
Your Excellency representatives of diplomatic missions,
Representatives from government, private sector and civil society organizations,
Members of the press,
Ladies and gentlemen, a very good morning to you all.
Multi-stakeholder Group (MSG) of the TEITI launched the second EITI report which shows among other things that Tanzania received more than USD 300 million from the mining sector in 2009/2010 up almost three times of the reported revenues for the previous year.
The report also represents a step forward from the first report published one year ago including gas revenues being covered for the first time.
Also 24 oil, gas and mining companies have now disclosed their payments more than double as many as in the previous report.