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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Library ResourceConference Papers & ReportsMarch, 2017Tanzania
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Library ResourceReports & ResearchSeptember, 2009Tanzania
This is the report relating to the facts finding mission conducted by HAKIARDHI and LHRC as an intervention in response to an outcry from the villagers at Namwawala village in Kilombero district, Morogoro region, owing to the alleged plan of the government to take possession of the village land for investment purposes.
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A Fact-Finding Mission Report on Vilima Vitatu Village Land Dispute-Babati District
Reports & ResearchJune, 2007TanzaniaA fact-finding mission team was formed as a result of consultative meetings on the land dispute between the village government and pastoralists in Vilima Vitatu village in Babati district. The team was comprised of the following members: Kassian Mshomba (LHRC), Seif Mangwangi (Majira), Diana Mawalla (PINGOs Forum), Hamadi Sadick, Emmanuel Cornel (PINGOs Forum), Asraji Mvungi (ITV), Rodgers Luhwago (The Citizen), Bakari Mnkondo (Uhuru), Bernard Baha (HakiArdhi) and Chambi Chachage (Independent Researcher).
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Library ResourceLegislation & PoliciesJune, 2012Tanzania
A comprehensive legal analysis highlighting gaps and recommendations in the four selected land related legislations in Tanzania.
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A Case of Mbulu, Hanang, Kiteto and Simanjiro Districts
Reports & ResearchDecember, 2013TanzaniaOver the years, PINGOs Forum has been concerned with the future of Pastoral and HunterGatherer communities with regard to changing patterns of traditional land use and livelihoods options. The information gathered from the past studies have risen much concern on the side of PINGOs Forum that perhaps climate change may have a serious bearing in the land use patterns and livelihoods of Pastoralists and Hunter-gatherers. As a result of this concern, PINGOs Forum decided to embark on a study to observe changes that have occurred in land use patterns in recent years.
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Case of Selected Districts in Arusha, Manyara and Dar es Salaam Regions
Reports & ResearchDecember, 2016TanzaniaTanzania is endowed with numerous resources including livestock. It is number three country in Africa in terms of livestock population after Ethiopia and Sudan. Currently, the country (Tanzania) has more than 22 million livestock, of which at least 95% are indigenous animals kept under traditional livelihood model known as indigenous pastoralism. At least 70% of Tanzanians earn their living through agro-pastoralism whereby around 40% of them entirely practices indigenous pastoralism.
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Library ResourceReports & ResearchJune, 2012Tanzania
The primary aim of this study is to investigate the size of the range lost to other forms of land uses. This will support the argument that it is time to reconsider the pastoralists sector as a legitimate mode of production in the country which, like other sectors, deserve due priority.
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Wildlife conservation;the emerged stranger in pastoralists grazing areas
Reports & ResearchJune, 2013TanzaniaThis fact finding is the fulfilment of PINGO’s Forum daily activities for inquiring the challenges facing pastoralists communities. In this fact finding, we will look at the impact of wildlife conservations in pastoralists areas. The Wildlife sector has become a threat to livestock sectors by which the wildlife sector is grabbing livestock grazing areas in the name of wild life conservation. In this fact finding we will look at the impact of established Randile Wildlife Management Area (RWMA) into the grazing area of Lolkisale village among other five villages forming the WMA.
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Library ResourceReports & ResearchJune, 2013Tanzania
This is a report of a fact-finding mission which took place in Tanga Region in June 2013. It aims to map the situation of pastoralists and the challenges they face in three districts of Tanga Region namely Handeni, Korogwe and Pangani. There are similar challenges in Bagamoyo, Kilindi and Mchinga Districts which were not covered
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The Tour to Kenyan CSOs Involved in the Constitutional Review
Reports & ResearchDecember, 2012Kenya, TanzaniaThis trip report includes key essential areas which were core areas of the tour; aim of the tour, list of organization visited and brief explanation about them, key issues of their advocacy, method they had applied, their experience, success, challenges and lesson learnt
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