Tanzania

Climate Risk Database

Climate Risk Database http://geonode.resilienceacademy.ac.tz Msilikale MsilangaVenla AaltonenMassoud HamadGideon MaranduTheofrida JuliusJuma Lungo Tanzania Recilience Academy’s Climate Risk Database (CRD) is a geospatial data repository that supports research, education and urban planning, such as disaster-risk management practices. The rich repository of datasets consists of open-access data from RA industrial placement, Tanzania Urban Resilience Program projects, and third […]

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Tanzania Resilience Academy

Tanzania Resilience Academy https://resilienceacademy.ac.tz/ Tanzania Resilience Academy equips young people with the tools, knowledge, and skills to address the world’s most pressing urban challenges and ensure resilient urban development. Resilience Academy began as an initiative of Tanzania Urban Resilience Program, a partnership between the Government of Tanzania, World Bank, and FCDO. It is now institutionalised

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Interaction between community, forest plantation and biodiversity

Project duration: 2003 – 2004 Leader: UTU Geography Partners: UDSM Geography Funding: MOSSE / Ministry for Foreign Affairs Finland   Interaction between community, forest plantation and biodiversity The research project studied interaction between forest plantation and community and its impact on biodiversity in Zanzibar, Tanzania. The project run between 2003 and 2004 as a collaboration

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Sustainable Landscapes in Zanzibar

Project duration: 2005 – 2007 Leader: UTU Geography Funding: MOSSE / Ministry for Foreign Affairs Finland   Sustainable Landscapes in Zanzibar The Ministry for Foreign Affairs of Finland and the University of Turku made an agreement to implement a research project, Sustainable landscapes of Zanzibar, after the completion of the previous project on the islands.

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Rural Settlement Development, Land Ownership and Food Security since Ujamaa era in Eastern Tanzania

Project duration: 2008 – 2010 Leader: UTU Geography Funding: Academy of Finland (Development Research)   Rural Settlement Development, Land Ownership and Food Security since Ujamaa era in Eastern Tanzania This research project studied the developments in rural Tanzania since the villagization process, which was implemented in the 1960’s upto 1980’s. At the time of the

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Changing land use and forest management practices and multidimensional adaptation strategies in Zanzibar, Tanzania

Project duration: 2010 – 2013 Leader: UTU Geography Funding: Academy of Finland (Development Research)   Changing land use and forest management practices and multidimensional adaptation strategies in Zanzibar, Tanzania The research project studied prevailing land use and forest management practices and their historical changes and associated socio-economic values in Zanzibar Islands. The aim was to

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KREPRO

Project duration: 2012 – 2016 Leader: UTU Geography Funding: Academy of Finland   Knowledge Creation Processes (KREPRO) The research group Knowledge Creation Processes (KREPRO) studied how knowledge is created in processes through various combinations of space and time. The project studied knowledge creation in different fields of activities such as academy, arts, business and community.

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HEI-GIS capacities in Geography education at the University of Dar es Salaam

Project duration: 2013 – 2016 Leader: UTU Geography and UDSM Geography Funding: HEI-ICI / Ministry for Foreign Affairs of Finland   HEI-GIS capacities in Geography education at the University of Dar es Salaam This HEI-GIS project aimed at developing teaching, learning and infrastructural capacities of the University of Dar es Salaam (Dept. of Geography) in

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UTU-FAO Forest Plantation Mapping in the Southern Highlands

Project duration: 2016 (6 months) Leader: UTU Geography Funding: FAO Finland   Niina KäyhköSalla Eilola UTU-FAO Forest Plantation Mapping in the Southern Highlands Forest plantation mapping solutions for the Private Forestry Programme was a 6 months project between Food and Agricultural Organization (FAO) and UTU Geography. The aim of the project was to estimate forest

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Pre-GESEC

Project duration: 2016 (6 months) Leader: UTU Geography and Future Technologies Funding: Business Finland / BEAM (former TEKES)   Niina KäyhköVille Leppänen Preparatory project for Geospatial Business Ecosystem in Tanzania (Pre-GESEC) Pre-GESEC was a 6 months preparatory project funded by the TEKES BEAM programme focusing on the establishment of geospatial ecosystem for location-sensitive decision-making business

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