EfD Tanzania supports PhD and MA students in the Department of Economics who are doing research on environmental economics. Three MA students and one PhD will graduate on 6th December 2008.
EfD Tanzania strive to support poverty alleviation and sustainable development through increased use of environmental economics capacity in policy making processes. One specific goal is to increase the number of trained environmental economists by creating conducive working environment for environmental economists. This is achieved through, among other things, providing research grants for local MA economics and PhD candidates writing on environmental and poverty. Margaret Banga, a PhD student was supported in partial fulfillment of her thesis. She did a study on “The Economics of Solid Waste Management The case of Kampala Uganda". The three MA students are Boniventura Godfrey, who's study is titled “ Estimating Houdehold Willingness to pay for improved solid waste management The case study of Manzese ward, Dar es Salaam city". Josephine Gakii, who's study is titled “Local Communities and Protected Areas: Effect of Attitudes of Fishers Towards Conservation of Marine Resources A Case Study of The Kenyan North Coast" and Ruhinduka Remidius, who's study is titled “Environmental Fiscal Reforms and Poverty Implication in Tanzania A case of Gasoline, Diesel and Kerosine taxation".