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Zanzibar Multi-Agency Taskforce Capacity Building Program

Zanzibar, Tanzania · 17–21 August 2026

Thirty-two law-enforcement and government participants from eighteen Zanzibari institutions completed a five-day multi-agency programme on environmental and transnational organised crime: financial investigation, network mapping, evidence handling, prosecution readiness, and the geospatial and forensic tools that support them. Organised with Zanzibar's Ministry of Agriculture, Irrigation, Natural Resources and Livestock.

32

Participants

18

Institutions

92%

Expectations fully met

Reducing Maritime Trafficking of Wildlife

Mombasa · Arusha · Dar es Salaam · Entebbe · March 2022–October 2023

A seven-course training series under the UNDP/GEF project of the same name: four courses on financial investigation and asset recovery, then three controlled delivery practical exercises. Convened with the Lusaka Agreement Task Force for officers from Kenya, Tanzania, Uganda and, at the final course, Cambodia.

7

Courses delivered

94

Participant places

4

Countries

Controlled Delivery Practical Exercise, Kenya

Mombasa, Kenya · 12–17 June 2023

The second of three controlled delivery courses, held at the Serena Beach Hotel in Mombasa. Fifteen officers (five each from Kenya, Tanzania and Uganda) worked through surveillance, debriefing, chain of custody and search-warrant preparation, and observed an ivory sampling demonstration for DNA testing.

15

Participants

3

Countries in cohort

Multi-Agency Capacity-Building Workshop, Brazzaville

Brazzaville, Republic of Congo · 11–15 April 2023

A five-day workshop convening enforcement officers from the Republic of Congo and the Democratic Republic of the Congo, delivered with the Lusaka Agreement Task Force and opened by the Republic of Congo's Minister for Forest Economy. Covered financial investigation, confidential sources, surveillance, controlled deliveries, mutual legal assistance and the prosecutor's role in transnational environmental crime.

2

Countries convened

Investigative Techniques & Port Security

Dar es Salaam, Tanzania · 24–28 March 2025

Twenty-eight enforcement, prosecution and revenue officers from Malawi, mainland Tanzania, Zanzibar and Zambia convened for practical training in investigative technique, evidence handling and port security inspection, working in four groups on a live case exercise.

28

Participants

92%

Expectations fully met

Regional Enforcement Cooperation

East & Southern Africa · 2022–present

ATI works with the Lusaka Agreement Task Force and national authorities on the cooperative enforcement mandate for illegal trade in wild fauna and flora, convening practitioners across borders so information moves at the speed the trade does.

8

Countries represented

Kigamboni Mangrove Restoration

Kigamboni District, Dar es Salaam · 2025–present

A women-led restoration of degraded coastal mangrove ecosystem in Kigamboni District. Mangroves are a nursery for marine life, a carbon store, and the natural defence protecting the coast from erosion and storm surge. This is long-term work and it is still underway.

20,000+

Mangroves planted

Natural Resources Security Strategy

Zanzibar, Tanzania · 2025–2026

ATI co-financed two formal policy instruments with Zanzibar's Ministry of Agriculture, Irrigation, Natural Resources and Livestock: the Situational Analysis Report 2025, and the Zanzibar Unified Strategy for Natural Resources Security and Resilience 2026–2036. ATI also convened a multi-stakeholder training on natural-resources security for government participant institutions.

Eco-Briquette Production

Singida, Tanzania · 2024–present

Community production of eco-briquettes from biomass waste, offering an alternative fuel source and income stream that reduces pressure on forest and mangrove. Delivered with women from marginalised communities alongside awareness of environmental crime, trafficking and gender-based violence risk.

Green Africa Tree Planting Campaign

Kigamboni District, Dar es Salaam · March–June 2025

ATI, in collaboration with United Bank for Africa, planted 5,000 trees across three Kigamboni schools (Rennie International School, Faith Nursery and Primary School, and Aboud Jumbe Secondary School), combining environmental sensitisation with school-level maintenance planning.

5,000

Trees planted

3

Schools

300

Literature books distributed

Women's Financial Literacy and Inclusion Programme

Dar es Salaam, Tanzania · 27 June 2025

More than 50 women took part in the launch of the Women's Financial Literacy and Inclusion Programme at Seedspace, Dar es Salaam. I&M Bank Tanzania, Airtel Money, Grant Thornton Tanzania and ATI brought together financial capability, digital confidence and environmental responsibility.

50+

Women at the launch

4

Partners convened

Pembamnazi Mangrove Restoration Project

Pembamnazi Mangrove Forest Reserve, Kigamboni · Proposed, October 2025–September 2026

A proposed restoration of the Pembamnazi Mangrove Forest Reserve, focused on Vinondo A, Vinondo B and surrounding sites, connecting ecological restoration with longer-term community livelihoods in beekeeping, sustainable fishing and seaweed farming. Verified completion figures will be published after field monitoring and reporting are finalised.

Temeke Primary Schools Tree Planting Plan

Temeke District, Dar es Salaam · Planned, 8–11 July

A planned tree-planting programme across ten primary schools in two Temeke clusters, with trees sourced from the Coast Region. This is a plan, not a confirmed project.

16 Days of Activism

Dar es Salaam, Tanzania · 7 December 2024

On 7 December 2024 ATI hosted a film screening and community discussion in Dar es Salaam under the 16 Days of Activism campaign, attended by more than 80 people.