Empowered Tanzanian civil society for fostered justice & human rights in natural resource governance

Tanzanian communities and civil society organisations are empowered to engage government and industry in fostering access to justice, good governance and human rights in natural resource governance This project aims to strengthen Tanzanian civil society organisations and communities with knowledge, skills, tools and opportunities to make sure that communities in Tanzania can benefit maximally from the extraction of natural resources (such as minerals and oil) while having to suffer the least harm possible from these extractive operations. In this way, Tanzania’s natural wealth can be a powerful driver of positive change and a way to improve the quality of life and overall wellbeing of Tanzania’s inhabitants, and not in the least its most disadvantaged ones. To make sure people’s basic rights are better respected and protected, and their voices better heard by those in charge of business and policy decision-making, this project focusses on tackling three main stumbling blocks: (1) the limited understanding and poor documentation of the harms and benefits of natural resource extraction and the real-life negative and positive impacts on the people affected by the exploitation o...(+11 characters extra in FundHub text)