The ILBF is delighted to work with legal institutions in Tanzania to provide information resources for judges, lawyers, court reporters and law students. We are pleased to confirm that the latest shipments have been successful despite the global challenges caused by Coronavirus (Covid-19).

At the end of 2019, we shipped books to three organisations in Tanzania: the Law School of Tanzania, the East African Court of Justice and the Institute of Judicial Administration. The books arrived in early 2020, just as the Covid-19 outbreak became a pandemic.

Dr William Pallangyo of the Law School of Tanzania received books donated by the ILBF

Coordinating the shipment and collection of books during the Covid-19 pandemic is a great challenge. The ILBF is very grateful to Aristarik Maro, Head of Library Services at the Law School of Tanzania, who took delivery of our shipment of books for the Law School and on behalf of the East African Court of Justice and the Institute of Judicial Administration. The Law School was able to do this despite restrictions imposed in order to combat Covid-19.

Dr William Pallangyo, Ms Bahati Mugin and Aristarik Maro of the Law School of Tanzania also received books on behalf of other organisations in Tanzania

The donated books are a welcome addition to the library at the Law School of Tanzania:

‘On behalf of the school, I wish to express our profound appreciation for the donation as we believe that our students, staff and the community will benefit immensely from reading the published papers. It is our expectation that International Law Book Facility will continue to partner and support our school library in future.’

Aristarik H Maro, Head Library Services, Law School of Tanzania

The Institute of Judicial Administration (IJA) received their books and Archibald Kiwango of the IJA very kindly organised the transport of their books and the books for the East African Court of Justice to Lushoto from Dar Es Salaam. The East African Court is based in Arusha and is partially closed due to the pandemic. Once the situation improves, the books will be collected from Lushoto and taken to the Court in Arusha.

The IJA expressed thanks for the support of the ILBF and the legal community:

‘We wish to sincerely express our profound appreciation for your generosity which will have far reaching impact to our institution. We look forward to your continued support.’

Archibald Aristarch Kiwango, on behalf of the Principal of the Institute of Judicial Administration

The Institute of Judicial Administration (IJA) received their books and also kindly organised the transport of books for the East African Court of Justice

The ILBF shipment to the IJA came about thanks to a successful partnership with the Slynn Foundation, which held a judicial training session at the IJA in Lushoto in December 2019:

‘The Slynn Foundation is delighted to be partnering once again with the ILBF, this time in providing law books to Tanzania, specifically to the library of the Institute of Judicial Administration (IJA) in Lushoto. The IJA provides a number of training courses to a wide range of legal professionals from students to the serving judiciary and the books provided by the ILBF will be a valuable resource to all those attending the IJA. Our partnership with the ILBF enhances the reach of the Foundation’s programmes and supports our common goal of sharing legal knowledge.’

Alison Fenney, Executive Director, The Slynn Foundation

Alison Fenney visited Tanzania as part of the Slynn Foundation training at the IJA in December 2019. Alison was able to take some ILBF books with her on the trip and these were handed over by the British High Commissioner to Tanzania.

Sarah Cooke, British High Commissioner to Tanzania, presented ILBF donated books to Paul Kihwelo, High Court Judge and Principal of the Tanzanian IJA

We wish to thank our partners, donors and recipients for their help in delivering these valuable legal resources to Tanzania in particularly challenging circumstances. We look forward to continuing to support the legal institutions in Tanzania over the coming years.

While we are waiting for Covid-19 restrictions to lift before we can pack and ship books again, we are still able to receive and process applications for books. Access to legal resources continues to be as important as ever.

For details of legal resources available online during the pandemic, see: Access to legal information during Coronavirus.