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District Multi-stakeholder Forums: An Unexhausted Opportunity for Securing Land Rights; the Tanzanian Experience

Conference Papers & Reports
March, 2017
Tanzania
Land Conflicts
Rangelands, Drylands & Pastoralism
agrarian reform
agropastoral systems
capacity development
customary land rights
grazing land rights
land administration
land conflicts
Administration of land in Tanzania is more decentralized from the president to the village level. The law gives power to village councils and village assemblies to administer village land. The District authorities are given advisory and supervisory mandates over villages and represent the commissioner who takes overall administrative powers. Despite decentralization, institutions responsible for land administration, land have continued to be cause of many conflicts for years. Conflicts have been escalating and lead loss of lives and property.
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Contextualizing International Voluntary Guidelines into Country Specific Land Investment Governance Systems: Experience from Tanzania

Conference Papers & Reports
March, 2017
Tanzania
Land & Gender
Land & Investments
advocacy
agrarian reform
land administration
land investments
legal empowerment
legal pluralism
research
This preliminary study involved consultation of responsible district government officials and relevant Civil Society Organizations (CSOs) on various issues related to land and investments. Among other areas, the Southern Agricultural Growth Corridor of Tanzania (SAGCOT) was selected as a study site and study used the Focus Group Discussions (FGDs) to obtain information. Questionnaire designed reflected land investment governance process thematic areas.
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From Promise to Performance? Wildlife Management Areas in Northern Tanzania

Reports & Research
October, 2011
Tanzania
Indigenous & Community Land Rights
Rangelands, Drylands & Pastoralism
displacement
dispossession
eviction
grazing contracts
natural resources management
research
TNRF, UCRT and Maliasili Initiatives have published, From Promise to Performance?: Wildlife Mangement Areas in Northern Tanzania. The summary provides an overview of findings of two studies recently carried out by TNRF on the current status and performance of three WMAs in northern Tanzania, in Arusha and Manyara regions
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Making Land Investment Work for Tanzania

Scoping Assessment for Multi‐stakeholder Dialogue Initiative

Reports & Research
March, 2012
Tanzania
Land & Gender
Land & Investments
advocacy
agrarian reform
customary tenure
indigenous peoples' land rights
land access
land acquisitions
land administration
land investments
land-use planning
The purpose of this assignment was to establish whether there is appetite to hold a public debate on how to realise better land‐based investments in Tanzania. It also aimed at identifying what would be the discussion issues and most appropriate mechanism to allow different actors from different levels to articulate their perspectives on land‐based investments in Tanzania. This has been triggered by the sensitivity surrounding the topic.
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Community and government: planning together for climate resilient growth

Issues and opportunities for building better adaptive capacity in Longido, Monduli and Ngorongoro Districts, northern Tanzania

Reports & Research
September, 2014
Tanzania
Indigenous & Community Land Rights
Land, Climate Change & Environment
Rangelands, Drylands & Pastoralism
climate change
communal ownership
community land rights
customary land rights
customary law
environment
Indigenous Peoples
land governance
pastoral land rights
Planning for climate resilience growth is increasingly important for the natural resource dependent economy of Tanzania. Central government does not have the knowledge, reach, skills or resources needed to plan for the range of livelihoods within Tanzania; but local governments, if granted the authority and resources, could plan with communities in the flexible, timely and appropriate manner that climate variability demands.
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Building Evidence on Rural Women Struggles for Land Rights in Tanzania

The Quest for Knowledge, Recognition and Participation in Decision Making Processes

Conference Papers & Reports
March, 2017
Tanzania
Indigenous & Community Land Rights
Land & Gender
Land & Investments
capacity development
displacement
land acquisitions
land rights activists
natural resources management
rangelands
right of access
women
Land is one of the terrains of struggle for most rural women in Africa because of its importance in sustaining rural livelihoods, and social-cultural and geopolitical factors that hinder women from enjoying land rights. Even when there are progressive land laws, as it is for Tanzania, women have not really enjoyed their rights. However, this has not stopped women to keep fighting for their land rights. They have sought their own approaches by leveraging opportunities within traditional, religious, and formal systems standing for their rights.
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Pillars of the community: How trained volunteers defend land rights in Tanzania

Reports & Research
December, 2016
Tanzania
Land & Gender
Land & Investments
displacement
gender equity in access to land
land allocation
land investments
land tenure
Training volunteers to help their communities defend their land rights has proved an effective approach for promoting land justice in Tanzania. This report documents how Hakiardhi, a Dar-es-Salaam based research institute working on land governance issues, has established and trained a 600-strong network of male and female ‘Land Rights Monitors’ (LRMs) operating in 300 villages on various aspects of the land law, so they can help people and local governments to exercise and ensure respect for their legal rights in land disputes.
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Current Issues on Land and Forest related Investment in Tanzania

Reports & Research
October, 2014
Tanzania
Forest Tenure
Land & Investments
forest conservation
land acquisitions
land investments
land tenure systems
This scoping study was commissioned to identify issues on land/forest related investment in Tanzania as part of a strategic engagement between Tanzania Natural Resource Forum (TNRF), HAKIARDHI/ LARRRI and the World Wide Fund for Nature – Coastal East Africa Initiative (WWF-CEAI).