I volunteered for one year in Arusha, Tanzania with a NGO based in Washington DC called Visions in Action. I helped non-profit organizations to set up web-based content management solutions to extend their reach on various stakeholders such as the Members of Parliament (MP), sister organizations, and donors.
The Back Forty aims to highlight progressive and innovative thinking about effective biodiversity and ecosystem conservation issues in all of their social, institutional, and biophysical dimensions. A strong emphasis is placed on examining the underlying economic and political causes of biodiversity loss and environmental degradation, and formulating effective strategies in response to these fundamental challenges.
This site provides news, longer feature articles, reviews of books and journal publications, and the most useful links to cutting edge conservation ideas. Ultimately, the site’s purpose is to become a leading source of information exchange for conservation practitioners around the world, not only from the site’s own postings but from the comments and submissions of readers within the broader community of conservationists.
TNRF is a collective civil society-based initiative to improve natural resource management and conservation in Tanzania by addressing fundamental issues of governance. We view the quality and equity of governance as fundamentally determining how natural resources are managed and how they support the livelihoods of Tanzanians and the sustainable economic development of the country.
As a consultant in the year 2007, I developed, designed, and still maintain this web site which aims at collecting a wealth of information about natural resources in Tanzania and more generally in Africa.
As a network, Policy Forum works together to open up and influence policy processes that improve the lives of all people, especially those who are socially disadvantaged and impoverished, in order to empower them to self-organize and become part of a social movement for change.
As a consultant in Tanzania, I developed and designed this site. The preparation stage included the visit of the office in Dar es Salaam to assess the needs and come up with the type of the required content. Training on how to create and edit content with Drupal was also provided to the employees.
