MJUMITA has been
rewarded with WWF Sweden´s annual environmental
prize, Jihde award.
The award
signed by Hakan Wirten
–
Secretary General, WWF Sweden has been presented to Rahima Njaidi
on behalf of MJUMITA on March 20th 2014 in
Dar es Salaam by her Royal Highness 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.
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