About Us

The Livingstone Tanzania Trust is a charityregistered with the UK Charity Commission. registration Number 1119512.

Out Trustees in the uk are:

Julian Page

Clive Shiret

Professor Mike Hodd

Tum Kazunga 

In addition our trustees in Tanzania are

Joas Kahembe

Professor Luta Maliyankono

Julian Page

Key Skills:

• Management experience: Office management including personnel management, recruitment, appraisal, budgeting planning and evaluation, research, project management, tendering, contract management, performance management, event management, logistics, health & safety management (NEBOSH), policy writing, facilities management, team development through motivation and empowerment, change management.
• Developing country experience: Travelled extensively in southern Africa (Kenya, Tanzania, Zambia, Malawi, Zimbabwe, and South Africa. Trustee of the Chalcot Africa Trust.
• Culture & Sport: Member of the Royal Geographical Society. Football supporter

Education: Manchester University Hotel Catering & Institutional Management (BTEC) 1989; Westminster University Development Management with sustainable tourism (MA with credit) 2006

Employment: Various London, Oxford Hotels 1985-1992 Broadgate Club, London 1989-91; Pinsent Masons Solicitors 1992-2005

Trustees role: Researching the tourism possibilities, seeking out potential business partners, ensuring the tours are run successfully, writing the newsletters, promoting the tours, fund raising, liaising with Tanzania Trustees, updating the website, co-ordinating the bookings and the volunteers, spokesperson.

KEY SKILLS

• Competence in Economic Development: Macroeconomics, econometrics, project appraisal; project evaluation; industry sector; education; fisheries; and governance.
• Developing country experience: More than 100 assignments in developing countries in Africa, Asia and South America.
• Government experience: Ministry of Finance, Canada.
• Policy experience: Adviser to African presidential candidates and policy bodies.
• Management experience: University Vice-Chancellor; Higher Education Project Manager.
• Culture & Sport: Cruise lecturer; after-dinner speaker; creator and owner of small London theatre; BBC comedy writer; creator of ongoing school sports programme in Nigeria; author of two African travel guidebooks; current sporting participation in cricket and marathon (2004).

Education: Cambridge (MA) 1963; LSE (MSc) 1965; Princeton (International Finance Fellow) 1966.

Employment: LSE (Researcher) 1963-5 Ministry of Finance, Canada (Economist) 1966, La Trobe University, Australia (Lecturer) 1966-68, SOAS, University of London (Senior Lecturer) 1969-93 University of Westminster (Professor) 1995-06, University of Bukoba, Tanzania (Vice-Chancellor) 1999-00, Delta State Higher Education Project (Project Manager) 2001-03, Visiting Professor, IIMK Calicut, India 2006-date

Academic: Economist, specialising in Africa, 8 Postgraduate Modules & 11 Undergraduate Modules taught; 14 successful PhDs supervised; 6 Academic administrative posts; 4 Seminar series organised; 2 Conferences organised; 3 Masters Programmes designed and developed; 3 External Examiner appointments; 12 PhD External Examinations; 5 Public Lectures; 2 Visiting Scholar Appointments; 3 Journal Editorial Boards

Publications: 4 Books; 18 Academic articles, 11 Professional articles; 15 Popular articles, 4 UN Agency reports, 14 Other Agency reports; 28 Research Papers

Consultancy: 70 Consultancy assignments for UNIDO, ILO, EIU, ODA, DfID, Commonwealth Secretariat, Oxford Analytica, and others

Trustee Role: Development consultant, Development agency consultant.

Date of Birth

September 1957 

Experience

• Chief executive of own business in the service sector for 25 years employing 800+ people. Responsible for strategy, employment practice, accounts and sales. IIP and ISO certificated

Skills

• Fellow of the Hotel Catering and Institutional Management Association;
• Leadership trust,
• Advanced IPH Health & Safety,
• Advanced ISO auditor,
• Actively involved in inspiring and motivating young people to participate in public life;
• 1 width breast stroke.

Hobbies

Sport - Football (Chairman of the OLD SOUTHENDIAN FC); skiing; yoga; tennis and golf.

Chairman of OLD SOUTENDIAN ASSOCIATION (Largest old school pupils association in England).

Trustee Role

• To bring entrepreneurial flare and business acumen to the Trust, seeking out business opportunities and advising local businesses.
• To manage the finances and the behind the scenes paperwork
• Fund raising and donor support

Name: Tum Kazunga

Date of birth: August 1972

Key skills:  Marketing &advertising, online marketing, copy writing, fundraising          

Management Experience: Former General Manager for a company of 13 in Zambia and currently running my own business in London.

Developing country experience: I've lived and worked in Zambia and travelled around Africa. Spent 3 years working as a Corporate Partnerships Manager for an international development NGO based in London.

I am very familiar with most of the issues around poverty reduction and development in Africa, especially agriculture, enterprise development, carbon finance and micro-finance.

Culture and Sport: Interested in most sport, especially football. I enjoy golf and outdoor activities. I like reading and current affairs.

Role as Trustee: Corporate Fund raising, website design, agricultural, enterprise, micro-loans and carbon finance advice .

KEY SKILLS

• Competence in development: building a school from scratch in Ngendabi with private international funding. Started the Waang'warai primary school development scheme, leading a street orphanage project team
• Management experience: Sales, export, accountancy, recruitment, strategy, logistics, project management, budgeting, planning and evaluation, research, inspections and auditing, office management including personnel management, recruitment, appraisal, and performance management.
• Developing country experience Lives and works in Tanzania all of his life.

Education: High School / Diploma in Export Promotion, Helsinki School of Economics; Coffee Liquorer- Mild Coffee Trade of East Africa.

Employment: Bukoba Co-op Union (1964-65), Mild Coffee Trade (1966), Coffee Board Export (1967-72), Export Corporation (1973-1979) Self Employed (1980-91), Kahembe's Trekking and Cultural Safari (1992 - to date)

Consultancy: Has closing working relationships with the Manyara District Commissioner, Education Officer. Tanzania Tourist Board Director, Lutheran Church Officialdom, the Babati community, the Manyara Holistic Centre (Street Orphan Project), Development Actors Network in Babati, Ngendabi Education Development Project.

Trustee Role: On the ground director of tour operations and local management of bookings, links with business and associations, LTT representative on development committees, maintaining and developing links with local and national authorities, newsletter writing, local fund raising, local accounting.

Name

Luta Maliyamkono

Birth

Born in 1939 in West Lake Tanganyika (now Kagera Region of Tanzania)

Education

1946- 62 Primary School in Kagera

1962-68 Secondary School in Mwanza.

1970-75 University of Manitoba, Canada

1975-78 Stanford University USA.

Qualifications

1974 BS University of Manitoba

1975 MS University of Manitoba

1978 PhD University of Stanford

Employment

1968-70 Secondary School Teacher, Mwanza

1978-80 Assistant Professor of Education, University of Dar es Salaam, Tanzania

1980-85 Associate Professor of Education, University of Dar es Salaam, Tanzania

1985-95 Full Professor of Education, University of Dar es Salaam, Tanzania

1978 to date Executive Director, Eastern and Southern African Research Programme, Dar es Salaam, Tanzania.

Publications

Maliyamkono, T. L. 2003. When Political Parties Clash. TEMA Publishers.

Maliyamkono, T. L. 2000. The Political Plight of Zanzibar. TEMA Publishers.

Maliyamkono, T. L. 1999. Cost-Sharing in Education and Health. Tema Publishers.

Maliyamkono, T. L. 1997. Tanzania on the Move. TEMA Publishers.

Maliyamkono, T. L. 1995. Who Votes in Tanzania and Why? Tema Publishers.

Maliyamkono, T. L. 1995. The Race for the Presidency : the First Multiparty Democracy in Tanzania. Tema Publishers.

Maliyamkono, T. L. and M. S D. Bagachwa. 1990 The Second Economy in Tanzania.
James Currey.

Maliyamkono, T. L. and L. P. Tembo. 1985. The Development of Higher Education in Eastern and Southern Africa. Hedaya Educational Books.

Maliyamkono, T. L. 1982. Higher Education and Development in Eastern Africa : an Eastern African Universities Research Project Report on the Impact of Overseas Training on Development. Heinemann.

Maliyamkono, T. L.1979. The Impact of Overseas Training on Development Eastern Africa Publications.