🇹🇿Tanzania

UCRT helps Maasai, Hadzabe, Datoga and other pastoralist and hunter-gatherer communities in northern Tanzania win legally binding titles to the rangeland their livelihoods depend on.

Justdiggit mobilizes African farmers and pastoralists to dig water-harvesting bunds and regrow trees from living stumps, regreening hundreds of thousands of hectares of degraded drylands.

Founded by ten Maasai women in 1997, the Pastoral Women's Council has helped over a thousand Maasai women win formal title to rangeland in a culture where women traditionally could not own land.

A social enterprise that turns verified forest protection by Tanzanian communities into carbon revenue they control.

A Dar es Salaam non-profit has put solar power into rural health facilities serving more than 584,000 patients, so ultrasound machines, lab kit and vaccine fridges stop going dark.

Where Kilwa villagers fence off their octopus reefs for a few months, the average octopus has grown from 500 g to 975 g.

Tanzania's largest forest-focused NGO works with mountain communities to protect the ancient Eastern Arc cloud forests.

Once-barren, poached-out savanna in the western Serengeti corridor has been brought back to life through anti-poaching patrols, fire management and invasive-plant clearance.

A Zanzibar-born network puts coastal Tanzanian communities in charge of restoring reefs, mangroves and fisheries on which their livelihoods depend.

In one Dar es Salaam ward, waste picker cooperatives run door-to-door collection that diverts 95% of waste from disposal, and the NGO behind it helped launch a national waste pickers' association.