HRH Victoria, the crown princess of Sweden presenting the JIHDE award to MJUMITA, receiving on behalf of MJUMITA is Rahima Njaidi, Executive Director, MJUMITA. Dar es salaam, 20th March 2014.
Rahima Njaidi, Executive Director for MJUMITA joyously displaying the award. Cheering with her are HRH Victoria crown princes of Sweden, Dr Allan Carlson Senior Conservation Advisor Species and Protected Areas WWF Sweden and Bell’Aube Houinato WWF-Tanzania’s Country Director at the award ceremony.
The award signed by Hakan Wirten – Secretary General, WWF Sweden has been presented to
Rahima Njaidi on behalf of MJUMITA on March 20th
Victoria, the crown Princes of Sweden.
The Jihde Award from "Elisabeth Jihde´s Memorial Fund" was founded in 1999 for rewarding
important conservation efforts in memory of Elisabeth Jihde, a Swedish woman deeply involved in
nature conservation in Africa.
“The 2014 Jihde prize is awarded to the network organization MJUMITA for their uniting and
creative work that has developed participatory community forest management groups.
Today, MJUMITA is recognized by decision makers as bearers of knowledge, innovators and as a
respected voice advocating the importance of community based natural resource management in
Tanzanian society says Bell’Aube Houinato, Country Director, WWF- Tanzania.
"Thank you your Royal Highness for this award. It really is an honour to be here and to receive it.
I like to take this opportunity to thank you for acknowledging our efforts in making a difference in
the forest sector for the benefit of the communities. We take this award as a challenge to make us
work harder to enable the communities benefit from these valuable resources, says Rahima Njaidi,
Executive Director of MJUMITA.
MJUMITA is a community forest network of community groups involved in Participatory Forest
Management (PFM) in Tanzania. The network provides a forum for capacity building, advocacy
and communication for these groups. MJUMITA currently has 110 affiliated local area networks
(also known as CBOs), in 13 regions, 30 districts and 452 villages involved in participatory
forest management countrywide.
The total number of MJUMITA members is more than 10,000
communities. MJUMITA members are managing more than 1,880,500 hectors of forest both
under Community Based Forest Management-CBFM and Joint Forest Management -JFM.
2014 in Dar es Salaam by her Royal Highness
I would like also to congraturate the MJUMITA for the work their doing especially in management of the natural forests in rural areas.you have done it though still there is long way to archive the goal of conservation which is has so many challenges.one of them is the policy maker have to look into the cost of management versus the benefit accrued by the community as the contribution to their livelihood in climate change mitigation.
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