NEMC and VPO Environment Capacity Building Program (2019 - 2025)

About this project

The government has taken a bold step to protect and conserve the environment by putting in place policy and legislative instruments through the National Environment Policy (1997) and the Environmental Management Act (EMA) (2004). The Act puts in place an administrative and institutional framework for environmental management that cuts across all levels of government administration that includes line ministries and local government authorities. EMA further outlines various environmental management tools such as Environmental Assessments, Environmental Standards and economic instruments. In addition the Act makes provision for the development and promulgation of regulations, guidelines and rules for effective implementation of the Act. Despite these efforts, there are still a number of challenges and gaps among responsible institutions and actors with regard to fully implementation of the EMA. These include among others, incompleteness or non-formulation of some of the regulations and guidelines, inadequate institutional capacity in sector ministries and local government authorities to implement the Act, and low awareness by the general public on their roles and responsibilities in implementing EMA. This therefore calls for a deliberate need to address the articulated challenges to foster effective implementation of the EMA. The proposed project aims at enhancing the national capacity for implementing the Environmental Management Act for sustainable environmental management in…

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Sweden · Government

Countries

Tanzania

Sectors

Environmental policy and administrative managementIV.1. General Environment Protection

Funded by

Sweden

Passes funds through

Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency

Published by Sweden to the International Aid Transparency Initiative (IATI), last updated 15 Oct 2026 and imported automatically. IATI identifier: SE-0-SE-6-11235.

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