Internal Reports and Documents
Articles and Publications
Land, Gender & Dialogue with Paine Eulalia Mako
A podcast conversation that dives into land rights, women rights and sustainability in Tanzania, with the hugely inspiring Payne Mako from the Ujamaa Community Resource Team (UCRT). The talk also highlights the ongoing efforts to empower women in traditionally patriarchal societies, showcasing how UCRT’s initiatives spark transformational change and create a culture of dialogue and equality. 
Women's Rights and Leadership Forums
In northern Tanzania, Women’s Rights and Leadership Forums (WRLFs) are mobilizing women and men in pastoralist communities to promote and defend local land rights. This briefing, co-authored by the Pastoral Women’s Council (PWC), Ujamaa Community Resource Team (UCRT) and Maliasili Initiatives, highlights some of the WRLFs’ achievements and strategies; asks how these forums, which appear to be a part of an emerging grassroots social movement for land rights, can be further supported; and explores whether such forums could be replicated elsewhere in the region. 
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Policy Matters
Read UCRTs contributions on the 'IUCN Policy matters; IUCN Commission on Environmental, Economic and Social Policy. Reimagining Conservation Towards a Flourishing Future'. Paine Mako writes a section on the significance of securing collective rights for justice in Tanzania. 
Building Stronger Grassroots Organizations that can Take Community Land Rights to Scale
Northern Tanzania’s iconic Savannah landscapes, home to some of the greatest cultural and biological diversity found anywhere in the world, encapsulate many of the challenges and opportunities facing community land rights in Africa. In contrast to most African countries, Tanzania’s landmark 1999 land reforms provide full legal recognition of customary land rights, which are administered through elected village councils. 
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Securing Communal Land Tenure in Northern Tanzania Using Certificates of Customary Right of Occupancy
Communal lands are central to the livelihoods of many Tanzanians, particularly to pastoralists and hunter-gatherer groups. But a number of factors can undermine the security of these lands remaining ‘communal,’ in turn threatening the livelihoods of many people and cultures. This brief sets out a new mechanism for strengthening community land rights by securing local tenure through acquiring a Certificate of Customary Right of Occupancy (CCRO). It describes the legal basis and process under this mechanism and provides recommendations on ways to mainstream this tool for the benefit of different public and private actors. |
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Improving Pastoralist and Hunter-Gatherer Interests in Tanzania’s Constitution
This brief provides an overview of the status of pastoralist and hunter-gatherer interests in the new draft constitution. Specifically, this brief looks at what recommendations were made by the Katiba Initiative, what was incorporated and what issues remain a priority for further attention. |
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Hadzabe Cultural Mapping Project
UCRT mapping project designed to show outsiders and government leaders Hadzabe people’s intimate relationship to their land and environment, thereby demonstrating their rights over the land, their detailed indigenous knowledge and the use of their natural resources. |
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Participatory Land Use Planning as a Tool for Community Empowerment in Northern Tanzania
UCRT paper for the gatekeeper series of the Natural Resources Group at IIED. This paper presents several case studies to show how UCRT has been working within Tanzania’s legal and policy framework to support a diverse range of pastoralists, agro-pastoralists and hunter-gatherers. |
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Communities, Conservation, and Conflicts in the Tanzanian Serengeti
Paper co-authored by UCRT staff addressing issues related to securing access and rights to resources, and gaining benefits from the resource within the context of one community-based initiative in the village of Ololosokwan in Tanzania. |
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