Lauren Persha                                             A triple win? 
                Charles Meshack                                              The impact of Tanzania’s Joint Forest 
                                                                             Management programme on livelihoods, 
                                                                             governance and forests
                                                                             March 2016
                 Impact                                                      Environment and Governance
                Evaluation 
                Report 34
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        programme a triple win? Understanding causal pathways for livelihoods, governance 
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        Tanzania’s Joint Forest Management programme on livelihoods, governance and 
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         A triple win? The impact of Tanzania’s Joint Forest 
         Management programme on livelihoods, governance and 
         forests  
          
         Lauren Persha 
         University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, US 
         Department of Geography and Curriculum for Ecology and the Environment 
          
         Charles Meshack 
         Tanzania Forest Conservation Group 
                                
          
          
                                
                                
                                
                                
                                
                                
                                
                                
                                
                                
                                
                                
                                
                                
                                
                                
                                
                                
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           Acknowledgments 
            
           The authors wish to thank 3ie for funding this impact evaluation study of Tanzania’s 
           Joint Forest Management (JFM) program, and for technical review and support 
           throughout the study.  
           We are grateful to the Tanzania Forest Service (TFS) and the Forest and Beekeeping 
           Division (FBD) of the Tanzanian Ministry of Natural Resources and Tourism (MNRT), 
           and the Tanzanian Commission for Science and Technology, for their support and 
           cooperation throughout the study. We especially appreciate the support and 
           collaborative assistance of the Participatory Forest Management (PFM) coordinator in 
           FBD, Joseph Kigula, and the Chief Executive Officer of TFS, Juma Mgoo.   
           We thank our field team for their hard work and enthusiasm in conducting surveys 
           across much of the eastern part of Tanzania: David Alila, Abdalla Juma, Heavenlight 
           Kizito, Peter Lorri, Daniel Lukas, Tumaini Mahuve, Marco Mchome, Regina Mtairo, 
           Fatma Rashid and Amos Enos William. We acknowledge useful inputs on study design 
           and execution from Tom Blomley, Neil Burgess, Nike Doggart, Theron Morgan Brown 
           and Rahima Njaidi. We thank Matt Cooper and Chris Jones for research assistance 
           with spatial data and Wen Liang for assistance with data entry programming. We are 
           indebted to Paul Ferraro for his generous advice and guidance on our quasi-
           experimental study design and analysis methods. Lastly, L Persha acknowledges the 
           excellent institutional support provided to this project by the Carolina Population Center 
           at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, including guidance on 
           communications products, spatial and other data management services.  
           The research discussed in this publication has been partially funded by the 
           International Initiative for Impact Evaluation (3ie) through the Global Development 
           Network. The views expressed in this article are not necessarily those of 3ie or its 
           members.                  
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