BTC has supported the beekeeping sector in Tanzania since 2007 through 2 projects: (i) Beekeeping Improvement Project (2007 – 2010), and (ii) Beekeeping Support Project in Kigoma Region (BSPK). BSPK started in May 2012 and will run up to June 2016. The Specific Objective of BSPK is to pilot a replicable model of sustainable beekeeping development in Kigoma Region. The project concentrates on the development of the honey value chain.

BSPK is now in its final stage and just recently a participatory capitalization workshop was held. The workshop aimed at discussing and analyzing the project’s achievements and challenges, what lessons can be learned from these experiences, and what is the way forward for the beekeeping sector in Kigoma. This way we try to ensure long-term effects of the project’s results.

The workshop was conducted in Kigoma on the 3rd of May. The participants were project implementers, project beneficiaries, and other key actors of the beekeeping sector in Kigoma Region and Tanzania in general. 
More than 50 people came and shared their insights about which lessons they had learned throughout the project, and at the same time they identified which aspects are important for the consolidation of project outcomes and further development of the beekeeping sector in Kigoma.