ADVOCACY
UCRT works to improve national policies and promote good governance by:
1. Informing policy and law-makers about how best to help communities realise their needs and secure their rights;
2. Building community leadership that is accountable to their constituencies at the grassroots level;
3. Increasing women’s representation in decision-making bodies at the local level.
We participate in different regional and international conferences to raise awareness and strengthen our advocacy work. For example, two members of UCRT joined the 2009 United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) conference of parties in Copenhagen, representing Tanzanian interests in international climate negotiations. In 2012, a delegation comprising of UCRT staff and other pastoralist and hunter-gatherer community organizations carried out visits to parliament and met with MP's and President Kikwete.
We form part of the Tanzania Land Alliance (TALA), which primarily carries out lobbying and advocacy with government at a national level. We are also part of the Katiba Intiative (KAI), a newly established network of all CSOs working with hunter-gatherers and pastoralists. The network works to promote community land and natural resource interests in Tanzania’s constitutional reform process.
1. Informing policy and law-makers about how best to help communities realise their needs and secure their rights;
2. Building community leadership that is accountable to their constituencies at the grassroots level;
3. Increasing women’s representation in decision-making bodies at the local level.
We participate in different regional and international conferences to raise awareness and strengthen our advocacy work. For example, two members of UCRT joined the 2009 United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) conference of parties in Copenhagen, representing Tanzanian interests in international climate negotiations. In 2012, a delegation comprising of UCRT staff and other pastoralist and hunter-gatherer community organizations carried out visits to parliament and met with MP's and President Kikwete.
We form part of the Tanzania Land Alliance (TALA), which primarily carries out lobbying and advocacy with government at a national level. We are also part of the Katiba Intiative (KAI), a newly established network of all CSOs working with hunter-gatherers and pastoralists. The network works to promote community land and natural resource interests in Tanzania’s constitutional reform process.
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