Our Mission

Our overall vision and mission

TANED is a leading organization that enables Tanzania natural resources management institutions and local communities, especially youths to acquire knowledge and participate in conservation activities for capacity building, environmental monitoring, sustainable use and livelihood improvement.

• We build research and academic capacity for local researchers to sustain TANED activities beyond the lifespan of each project.
  
  
• TANED encourages researchers to communicate and disseminate research outcomes to local communities, most especially young women, targeted towards the principle of “catching them young”.
  
  
• TANED encourages and helps local communities with projects that are not in conflict with conservation approaches, but at the same time, improve local livelihood.
  
  
• We establish training centers where local people (women in particular) can come for short courses on nature conservation with Tanzanian and international teachers.
  
  
• TANED initiates conflict resolution regarding human–wildlife interactions through good strategies to either reduce or solve human-wildlife conflict together with local communities.
  
  
• TANED supports empowering young women building up schools and Education systems about sustainable use of natural resources in Tanzania.
  
  
• Through our activities, TANED acknowledges that infrastructures, such as, good roads are good for local development. Knowledge on how to develop such infrastructures in co-existence with conservation approaches is considered as a “win-win” situation.
  
  
• TANED empowers women as formidable drivers of local development and conservation of biodiversity.