Abstract
Tanzania has changed its foreign policy. The changes are aiming to increase development support in key sectors of strategic significance to the economy particularly forest and wildlife management. From colonial to post-colonial eras, development partners support forest and wildlife conservation. However, the support has failed to improve forest and wildlife management, due to failure of not being able to address livelihood and vulnerability issues such as improved human health, employment opportunities, prices, demography and technology of the people residing around the forest and wildlife reserves. Eventually, there is a continuance of deforestation and poaching activities. Thus, paper suggests future changes of foreign policy should aim at harmonising key policies of strategic significance to the economy. The harmonisation would help to establish a common policy agenda for Tanzania in forest and wildlife management globally. Harmonisation could increase and ensure the right form of development support is acquired for improving both condition of forest and wildlife reserves as well as livelihood outcomes of local population. Most importantly, paper suggests that livelihood analysis should be conducted prior to the provision of development support. Development support as it now stands, only serves to aid in improving condition of forest and wildlife reserves, and made the local population vulnerable to poverty. Keywords: Foreign Policy, Development Support, Forest and Wildlife Management, Livelihood, Tanzania DOI: 10.7176/IAGS/81-06 Publication date: April 30 th 2020
Highlights
In forest and wildlife conservation, Tanzania has been receiving financial and technical support from SIDA, DANIDA, FINNIDA, NORAD and World Bank (IDA)
In order to understand the contribution of development support in forest and wildlife management, one has to understand how has change in foreign policy provisions stemmed from the shift of country’s international diplomacy, affected development partners’ financial and technical support needed for improving forest and wildlife management in Tanzania?
1.3 Narratology of the Study A qualitative approach was found to be more appropriate in understanding how has change in foreign policy provisions stemmed from the shift of country’s international diplomacy, affected development partners’ financial and technical support needed for improving forest and wildlife management in Tanzania? The preference given to qualitative approach over quantitative in this study was due to the fact that, quantification of policy effects in Tanzania has been difficult because of lack of reliable, consistent and comprehensive data in almost all sources of statistics (UNEP 2002)
Summary
In forest and wildlife conservation, Tanzania has been receiving financial and technical support from SIDA, DANIDA, FINNIDA, NORAD and World Bank (IDA). The study is aiming at examining correlation that exists between foreign policy as independent variable on one hand, and development partners’ financial and technical support as dependent variable on the other hand, needed for improving forest and wildlife conservation in Tanzania.
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