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CORDS
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Community Research and Development Centre (CORDS) is an organisation established to address some of the challenges that pastoral communities face in the Maasai region. CORDS works to secure land and human rights for pastoralists through participatory approaches aimed at empowering the poor and marginalised to participate in local decision-making. Since 1999, the organisation has worked with and secured 71 Village Land Certificates and thus is highly regarded by local authorities as well as ordinary people.
Address: P.O. BOX 11141, Arusha
Telephone: +255 732 972 340
Fax: +255 272 544 536
Email: cords@habari.co.tz
www: www.cordstz.org
Contact person: Lillian Looloitai, Coordinator
Theme: Land Rights
CORDS operates in the districts of Kiteto, Monduli, Ngorongoro and Simanjiro. MSTZAADK has partnered with CORDS since 2005. Its present support is currently directed towards activities in Kiteto District.
The partnership’s current focus is on empowering women to enable them to gain secure access to land. Despite their legal rights, women in Tanzania remain marginalised in this area, leaving them particularly vulnerable and prone to poverty.
The partnership’s activities entail organising women and making them conscious of their land rights as well as seeking to establish the necessary institutional framework for their claims to materialise. This includes facilitating demarcation and certification of the village land, developing village land use plans and formulating by-laws, and facilitating the establishment of village land registries. It also involves activities on accountability such as increasing women’s participation and reducing corruption in village councils and village adjudication committees.
By 2012, the partnership aims to secure 13 Village Land Certificates, 21 Village Land Use Plans and to ensure that women from 21 villages in Kiteto District claim their rights to land.
Read more about CORDS in the articles below:
CORDS - first partner to sign new partnership agreement
Video: The Baobab People of Tanzania
Video: Papiya - Maasai and single mother
