Environment for Development

The collaborative MA and PhD programme in the Department of Economics University of Dar es Salaam is for sub-Saharan Africa. The progammes are conducted through coursework and dissertation. The University of Dar es Salaam is one of the four host universities in the sub region. The first two academic years are devoted for coursework covering, compulsory training in core courses of Microeconomics, Macroeconomics and quantitative methods plus two optional core courses is conducted at the department of Economics University of Dar es salaam in two semesters. Students then join colleagues form other host Universities at a joint facility for electives (JFE) in Nairobi for instruction in the optional courses. After coursework (core courses and electives), students get prepared to the comprehensive examinations. During the third and fourth academic years, student work on their research proposals, conducted research; prepare dissertation write-ups and presentations.

Environment for development Tanzania (EfDT) hosted in the Department of Economics University of Dar es salaam geared toward improving learning and research. EfDT aims at preparing graduate students to be competent in environment Economics and research, policy, and practice as young researchers. Working alongside environment economists who are prominent scholars and practitioners, graduate students develop the knowledge, skills, values, and habits of mind needed to serve the environment as researchers, teachers, consultants, and collaborators, particularly in area of environment and policy.

The EfDT offer Academic Support in writing thesis/dissertation and research to meet the academic mission of the university. We do this by supporting students’ as a capacity building by assisting those writing on environment and poverty to not only meet their learning or research goals, but be innovative in the process; and by fostering relationships with key partners, in formal and informal settings. This is to ensure, wherever possible and appropriate, that MA and PhD studying on Environment economics and poverty issues lead to both an academic qualification and recognition by environmental economists. Also to ensure that thesis/dissertation meet relevant external benchmarks for standards and quality.

The EfDT staff apart from promoting academic research tools to graduate students, we also conduct training to civil servants in government organs and non – governmental institutions as a party of capacity building strategies. We have developed a training manual that aim at developing and facilitating effective mainstreaming of environmental and poverty concerns in policy, planning and monitoring processes in Tanzania through articulating the linkages between poverty and environment on the one hand and economic growth on the other.

The main objective is to provides reference to concepts, strategies, policies, and guidelines, Also addresses strategic issues related to planning, implementation and evaluation of environmental policies and strategies and identifies key actors and stakeholders. However, the manual itself is intended to:
- impart skills needed by policy makers and practitioners in order to analyze poverty-environment linkage;
- Familiarize stakeholders with approaches used in analyzing poverty-environment linkage;
- Identify roles and responsibilities of different actors and stakeholders in the continuum of policy process related to poverty-environment linkage; 
- Assist in developing poverty-environment indicators for monitoring policies and strategies,
- Identify approaches to financial resources mobilization for environmental management.