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About LEAT
Press Releases [ archive ]
Mar-26-2007
LEAT files Amicus Brief in Tanzanian Failed Water Privatization Case Pending Before ICSID Tribunal
Feb-02-2007
LEAT, LHRC, TGNP, CIEL and IISD allowed to file written submission in Biwater v. United Republic of Tanzania ICSID arbitral dspute
Jan-10-2004
LEAT 2002-2003 Biennial Report
Nov-24-2003
Human Rights Commission Issues Injunction Order Against Tarime Gold Mine and Four Others
Oct-06-2003
Save Mererani Miners, Avert Another Bulyanhulu
LEAT Stategic Plan [ word ] [ pdf ]
LEAT Mwanza Branch
Publications
LEAT publishes Policy Briefs online and in print as a public service after extensive research into critical environmental issues facing Tanzania and East Africa.
Legislation [ under development ]
LEAT is working with grant funding from the World Resources Institute and in cooperation with Environmental Law Alliance Worldwide to create an online resource of Tanzanian law relating to the environment.
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LAWYERS' ENVIRONMENTAL ACTION TEAM
The Lawyers' Environmental Action Team is the first public interest environmental law organization in Tanzania. It was established in 1994 and formally registered in 1995 under the Societies Ordinance. Its mission is to ensure sound natural resource management and environmental protection in Tanzania.
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.
Objectives of the Lawyers' Environmental Action Team
- To develop and/or improve Tanzania's environmental law jurisprudence;
- To ensure that the country's natural resources and its environment are democratically governed, managed in accordance with the public trust doctrine and harnessed for the benefit of all Tanzanians;
- To impart to the general public an understanding of the laws and policies relating to the environment and natural resources;
- To conduct a legal audit on the existing and proposed investments in Tanzania in order to reveal possible positive and negative impacts on the country's environment and social life of Tanzanians and recommend alternative options to the identified negative impacts;
- To work with local communities in enhancing their access to natural resources and securing their rights to those resources, including but not limited to the right to participate by amplifying their roles in the management of those resources;
- To carry out legal research on various environment and natural resources issues and related issues, including but not limited to, governance, human rights, food security, poverty alleviation, social equity;
- To participate in and take part in various international and regional legal processes and/or activities aimed at protecting or impacting the environment, natural resources and related issues;
- To undertake various advocacy activities including but not limited to; public interest litigation against environmental destructors, pressurize public authorities through judicial means to carry out their environmental protection duties, to conduct various environmental protection campaigns, seminars, workshops, public hearings, media briefings, lobbying and/or sensitize decision makers on environmental issues;
- To cooperate, federate, amalgamate, affiliate in part or in whole with or to subscribe to any governmental, inter-governmental or non-governmental organization whose objectives are in general or in part similar to the objects of the Company and which is not carrying on business for profit or gain;
- To gather, store and disseminate information relating to environmental law in Tanzania generally make it accessible to the public;
- To do anything within the ambits of the law for the purposes of advancing the objectives of protecting, conserving and ensuring wise use of the environment and natural resources.
LEAT Contact Information
Lawyers' Environmental Action Team (LEAT)
Mazingira House, Mazingira Street
Mikocheni Area
P. O. Box 12605
Dar es Salaam
Tanzania
leat@mediapost.co.tz
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