LEAT carries out policy research, advocacy, and selected public interest litigation. Its
membership largely includes lawyers concerned with environmental management and democratic governance in
Tanzania.
Publications
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LEAT publishes Research Reports and Policy Briefs online and in print as a public service after extensive
research into critical environmental issues facing Tanzania and East Africa.
Recent additions:
Regulating the Hunting Industry in Tanzania:
Reflections on the Legislative, Institutional and Policy-Making Frameworks
Feb-04-2003 This work critically analyzes the operations of the hunting industry of Tanzania in the light of existing institutions, the law and policy-making frameworks. The study is essentially a follow up to one of LEAT's Policy Briefs that focused on the granting of hunting blocks in Tanzania as one aspect of the hunting industry. This study provides a comparatively more holistic approach in analyzing the operation, activities and features of the hunting industry of Tanzania from a legislative and policy-making perspective.
Robbing the Poor to Give to the Rich:
Human Rights Abuses and Impoverishment at the MIGA-Backed Bulyanhulu Gold Mine, Tanzania
Jan-13-2003 LEAT's submission to the World Bank Extractive Industries Review argues that "the Bulyanhulu Gold Mine is a premier example of all that is wrong with the World Bank Group’s support of the corporate mining investment in Africa and elsewhere in the world."
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Law
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This section is under development. LEAT is currently mobilizing resources and will work in collaboration with Environmental Law Alliance Worldwide to create an online resource of Tanzanian laws relating to the environment.
Draft legislation:
DRAFT Tanzania Environmental Protection Act
Aug-14-2003 Lawyers’ Environmental Action Team (LEAT) and the Environmental Coalition of Civil Society Organizations (ECO) for the last six years have been campaigning for the enactment of a framework environmental legislation in Tanzania. This is because Tanzania is the only East African country without a framework environmental law despite of its unrivalled natural resources, breathtaking attractions and a population of more than 35 Million people. LEAT and ECO have drafted the Elements of a Bill For Tanzanian Environmental Protection Act for the purposes of stimulating wider public discussion as to how the Tanzanian environmental legislation should look like.
Visitors are encouraged to read this draft and submit their comments to ECO and LEAT.
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About LEAT
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LEAT carries out policy research, advocacy, and selected public interest litigation.
Its membership largely includes lawyers concerned with environmental management and democratic
governance in Tanzania.
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