Context:
Land shortages become more acute in Tanzania and land values and investor interest in sectors such as agriculture rises, the threats to pastoralists? lands and livelihoods are intensifying. Internal demographic and livelihood pressures facing pastoralist communities in northern Tanzania are further exacerbating the threat to transhumant pastoralist livestock production based on communal use and governance of rangelands. In the face of these manifold pressures, as well as growing challenges related to climate change, strengthening communal tenure and governance of rangelands in pastoralist areas is an urgent need throughout northern Tanzania. This project proposes to secure rangeland areas through Certificate of Customary Right of Occupancy (CCRO), in two Maasai communities in northern Tanzania where security of tenure over communal rangelands faces increasing pressures.

About the Proponent:
Ujamaa Community Resource Team (UCRT) works with eight ethnic groups in 55 villages across 8 districts of Northern Tanzania. Their mission is to promote and enhance communities? capacity to improve their livelihoods and to sustainably manage their land and natural resources. Their vision is improved livelihoods for pastoralists, hunter-gatherers and agro-pastoralist communities through social justice and sustainable natural resource management.






Project?s Primary Objective:
To facilitate and support the establishment of rangeland communal grazing areas in target villages, to secure communities legally recognized rights to access, use and manage pasture land and livestock migratory routes thereby increasing their livelihood security and drought resilience.