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Name Affiliation Title Ryosuke Takahashi Senior Research Officer, Planning Department
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Date: November 14, 2025
Organized by JICA
Name of Venue (Pavilion Name)：Tanzania Pavilion
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Name Affiliation Title Kyosuke Inada JICA Special Advisor for Sustainability Promotion Rogacian H. Matibilla Tanzania Office of the President Amina Shaaban Tanzania Ministry of Finance Government of Tanzania, World Bank, Carbon Tanzania, etc.
Background and Objectives
Tanzania’s Scaling-Up Locally Led Climate Action (SCALE) program aims to strengthen locally driven measures to address climate change, including community-led efforts to improve agricultural and pastoral productivity, water conservation, and forest management. measures, such as improving agricultural and pastoral productivity, water conservation, and forest management. At this event, participants discussed climate change measures based on the SCALE program.
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Prior to the panel discussion, the Tanzanian government presented a mechanism for strengthening climate change countermeasures at the local level, with particular emphasis on collaboration among local governments, communities, and the private sector. For example, he pointed out that local governments should enhance their planning capacity and take local initiative in climate change countermeasures, create mechanisms for residents to recognize risks and decide on their own solutions, and take measures based on local weather risks and infrastructure vulnerabilities. In addition, he noted that transparent budget management and financing are essential for the implementation of climate measures, and that it is important to strengthen accounting systems.
In the panel discussion, Carbon Tanzania attendees shared their assessment that Tanzania is well-developed in terms of land rights and guidelines, making it easy for private investment to be implemented, while introducing the company’s track record of implementing forest conservation projects for over 15 years and returning the funds to the community. Tanzania has well-developed land rights and guidelines, making it an environment conducive to private investment. On the other hand, it is important to ensure transparency through cooperation with the government.
The World Bank attendees noted that climate finance is significantly inadequate relative to global demand, and that local initiatives are the most effective way to leverage climate finance. He also mentioned that Tanzania’s SCALE program is also a promising mechanism that can be expanded nationwide.
-Other attendees noted that policy development has clarified land rights and made it possible to balance livelihoods and nature conservation, and that environmental protection is inseparable from community livelihoods because of the strong values of living in harmony with nature.
Inada commented that JICA has been supporting local governance and community development in Tanzania for more than 20 years and has been promoting the participatory, people-centered O&OD approach, and that JICA also has a collaborative relationship with the World Bank’s SCALE program, The World Bank has also been working closely with the SCALE Program of the World Bank. The Bank hopes to continue to provide technical support for facilitator training, introduction of digital learning systems, and sharing of good practices.
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