Kahyarara, Godius

Dr. Godius Kahyarara is a Senior lecturer of economics in the Department of Economics. He has wide experience in research and consultancies related to government policy formulation and review in forest and other natural resources. Recently he worked on review of DANIDA and FINIDA projects in Tanzania as a consultant of the Danish government through DANIDA and FINISH governments. The review covered projects in agriculture and environment as well which gives him an advantage of current status of implementation of related programs through Mama Misitu project. He has previously worked as an external expert for the Ministry of Natural resources in preparation of forest sector outlook that provided substantial inputs for review of the current forest policy. He is also involved in the evaluation of World Bank projects in the Ministry of Natural Resources and Tourism.

Before joining the University in 2006 he was a national coordinator of Poverty Reduction and Environment Management (PREM) through funding from the DGIS of the Dutch government. He worked to establish market for environmental services and he participated in carry out of livelihood assessment and cost and benefit analysis that have resulted in the establishment of the first market of watershed services in the Ruvu River upper catchments and Sigi in Muheza Tanga. He participated in the design of current investment policy, transformation of some government departments into executive agencies, review of irrigation master plan and recently review of forest sector policy.