NARAMATISHO

Country: Tanzania
Address: P.O. Box 150, Chalinze
Telephone: +255 783 956 880
Fax: None
Email: naramatisho@yahoo.com
www: None
Contact person: Onesmo Ngulele, Coordinator

Theme: Land Rights

NARAMATISHO’s main focus has been on improving service delivery in order to advance the marketing and production of pastoralists’ products. More recently, though, it has also come to see secure access to land as a precondition for sustainable development and investment in the pastoral sector.

NARAMATISHO operates in eleven villages in the Bagamoyo district. Its partnership with MSTZAADK aims to ensure that pastoralist women and men have secure access to land in the four villages of Talawanda, Mkenge, Kaloleni and Maluli.

With the growing demand and interest in land, conflicts between different groups over the use of land have become increasingly common in Tanzania. Pastoralists’ and farmers’ livelihoods are fully dependent on continued access to and use of land.

MSTZAADK’s project with NARAMATISHO focuses on securing land through the development of village land use plans and by-laws in four villages. Village land use plans provide for participatory management of village land and natural resources. They also have the potential of reducing land conflicts and preventing village land being ‘grabbed’ by outsiders.

MSTZAADK also supports NARAMATISHO in activities such as local awareness-raising and training around land rights and land use planning and ensuring women’s participation in the village institutions.  This also involves activities such as developing village land use plans and by-laws, establishing village land registries in order register and record land titles, and training village land councils who resolve village land disputes.

The project also provides institutional support to NARAMATISHO.

 

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