Wildlife Management Areas (WMAs) have the potential to benefit both people and wildlife in Tanzania. But are Tanzanian communities earning enough from WMAs to want to protect the wildlife that live on their land? This policy brief addresses this question by examining two WMAs in the Tarangire ecosystem and looking at their performance and revenue streams. This reveals that while communities are earning some income, the WMAs do not yet have enough funds to cover management and wildlife protection costs.
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Library ResourcePolicy Papers & BriefsDecember, 2015Tanzania
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Advancing the Land Rights of Pastoralist Women in Northern Tanzania
Policy Papers & BriefsDecember, 2013TanzaniaIn northern Tanzania, new grassroots groups called Women’s Rights and Leadership Forums (WRLFs) are mobilizing women and men in pastoralist communities to promote and defend local land rights. This briefing 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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Library ResourcePolicy Papers & BriefsDecember, 2013Tanzania
The first draft of the Tanzanian constitution incorporates many provisions that will improve the rights and interests of pastoralists, huntergatherers and women in these communities.
However, there remain some important outstanding issues that must be addressed in order to ensure adequate reform that protects these marginalized groups’ interests
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Preserving Rights to gain Benefits
Peer-reviewed publicationDecember, 2012TanzaniaThis chapter addresses 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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