Tanzania Integrated teaching and learning approach:

 Conservation education in primary school pupils adjacent Ruvu Forest Reserve, Tanzania

Project Completion Report

Project Leader:           Dorah Mbogo

Project duration:         January – August 2022

Report date:                November, 2022

The following are the three most important outcomes of the project.

i.                    A total of 21 primary school teachers from Mpera and Mumbi were empowered and motivated on practical teaching and learning approaches, using forest reserve as the learning resource.

ii.                  232 pupils from Mpera and Mumbi primary schools have been trained on sustainability issues, importance of forest, nursery techniques and tree planting skills

iii.                7 villages (where pupils came from) have become integral part of the forest conservation benefiting about 12,000 hectares of the forest reserve.

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1. Level of achievement of the project’s original objectives and any relevant comments

	Objective	Not achieved	Partially achieved	Fully achieved	Comments
i	Promote attitudes of concern for the conservation of the forest reserve area			√	Objectives were achieved. 232 pupils and 21 teachers from Mpera and Mumbi primary schools were reached and trained.
ii	Strengthen practical teaching skills for conservation education among in-service teachers.			√
iii	Provide training on basic conservation skills such as plant recognition, seed growing and tree planting			√
iv	Monitoring impacts of the previous projects and report current project		√		Monitoring visit to previous project schools were conducted. Provision of the current project were delayed due to involvement of the project leader in national census from June to September

2. Description of the most important outcomes of the project

3. Sharing the project results with others

The project work has been shared during local village meetings. Further dissemination of the project work will be done through host organization website (www.gicd.or.tz) and the DTT webpage.

 

4.      Any unforeseen difficulties raised during implementation of project activities.

Project activities were interrupted by the National Census exercises conducted in July August. Schools were closed and the project leader was appointed as one of the National Trainers for Census Officers and enumerators. This resulted into a delay in the project activities particularly monitoring visits and reporting.