cowtreemoon← back to the planet

Tanzania

Africa · Eastern Africa

7 projects · 7 organizations

Ujamaa Community Resource Team (UCRT)

Titling Pastoralist Land Across Northern Tanzania

Land & Rights

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.

1.5MhectaresLand secured under communal customary land titles
190villagesVillages with strengthened land rights
view project →
Land & Rights

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.

7,000womenMaasai women empowered across Ngorongoro, Longido and Monduli Districts
1,200womenPastoralist women who received formal land certificates from village governments
view project →

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.

350kacresWestern Serengeti habitat protected
4,569hectaresSavanna cleared of invasive alien plants
view project →