News
SADC Office Relocation
We are excited to inform our local, regional and global partners and stakeholders of our new office location.It is located along Rose Garden Road, Mikocheni-B, Plot 312, Dar es Salaam. Our new telephone number will be...[more]
Southern Tourism Agricultural and Commercial Show- July 2012
2012 and we are at the Livingstone Show Grounds again. It is still the same, the show is opening, the toilets are not yet installed, some stands are still setting up, but we are ready! The GAZEBO is standing; the banners are...[more]
Waste Reduction and Income Generation Through Recycling Material in Dar es salaam
Recyclable materials are materials like plastic bottles, cans, clean packaging plastics and so on that can be collected and sold for profit to industries that reuse the raw materials.A fundamental component of most Decentralized...[more]
Guluka Kwalala Commited to Change…
Guluka Kwalala Youth Environment Group (also known as Guluka Kwalala) is a local NGO who’s mission is to build community capacity to enhance good governance and reduce poverty through environmental education, environmental...[more]
BORDA received ‘Engineering Award’ in Durban, South Africa
BORDA was honored at the Annual Awards Banquet by the school of engineering of the University of Kwazulu-Natal (UKZN) for their support and contribution to the advancement of engineering education last year.[more]
DES Welcomes Weltwärts Bremen Volunteers for 2012/2013 Intake
Matti and Magdalena were officially welcomed by DES staff on Monday after arriving from preparation seminars in both Bremen and Dar es Salaam respectively. [more]
Solid Waste Management Solutions- A Buzzing Topic In Dar es Salaam
For years solid waste management has been prioritized as one of Dar es Salaam’s most pressing issues by local governments. Recently, exterior stakeholders including greater NGO and private sector involvement have been increasing...[more]
Better Sanitation facility at Disability Hospital- CCBRT
CCBRT (Comprehensive Comunity Based Rehabilitation in Tanzania) is a disability hospital located at the msasani peninsula in Daresalaam city Tanzania. The hospital serves more than 500 patients per day and it has more than...[more]
Sustainable Living Exhibition: 30 August – 01 September 2012
DES participated for the first time in the Sustainable Living Exhibition hosted by Ethekwini Municipality and Imagine Durban at the Durban Exhibition Center. It was an excellent opportunity for sustainability initiatives to share...[more]
Simgas BV introduces prefabricated Biogas Digesters in Tanzania
The start-up enterprise SimGas BV, Den Haag, Netherlands, has developed two types of biogas digesters out of polyethylene (PE). •The Urban digester is a small floating drum design of 550, 2000 or 3500 litre digester volume....[more]