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What to be done and why? The project intends to empower more women, give them more voices to advocate for their rights for them to have full control over land resources. In Tanzania customary practices often, require women to access land through their fathers, brothers, husbands or other men who control the land. This makes women vulnerable and decreases agricultural productivity. When women lose their connection to this male relative, through either death, divorce or migration, they can lose their land, home and means of supporting themselves and their families. Direct beneficiaries Direct beneficiaries: 5,000 vulnerable women and girls Expected impact: Proportion numbers of women in Muleba and Bukoba Districts have adequate access to and control over land resources. Direct project results/ outcomes: Increased capacity, knowledge and skills among marginalized women on their rights to have access to and control over land. Village and Ward Land Councils are accountable and ensure equitable distribution of land resources for women. Increased access to information, education and communication services and materials for women about land distribution, land registration and land rights. Prominent people, political and religious leaders, local leaders and traditional land owners are first agents for change in advocacy to land registration, land rights and land ownership for vulnerable women. Expected outputs of the projects Lessons learnt on the previous project achievements documented and shared with policy makers. 75 paralegals trained on land rights for women 25 Ward Land Councils trained and strengthened 140 members of Ward Land Councils trained. Quarterly dialogue meetings with prominent, local leaders and traditional land owners convened. 1 District Women Friendly Resource Centre (WRC) established and 1 WRC strengthened 75 Women informal groups on advocacy for land rights formed and supported IEC materials developed and distributed, media coverage on women?s rights aired out Implementing partners: TAMA is the implementing partner. They will work and s strengthen collaboration with Muleba and Bukoba District Councils particularly Legal Officers, Land Officers, Village Land Councils and Ward Land Councils and paralegal women Link to the website: www.tama.or.tz

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Ethnic customary land systems are vital for community people for livelihood, social justice and environment. Now these land management systems are in danger by centralized control and foreign direct investments with mismanagement and as ignored by laws and policies. This project documents literally and visually ethnic people's traditional land use and natural resource management systems. We build up communities' collective voice, confidence and space to speak out the truth also to international audience abo ut their rights which government has recognised by the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights (ICESCR) but which violated by land grab, evictions and globalised natural resource extraction. The 2018 amended Vacant, fallow and virgin land management law threaten ethnic people's right to own, manage and decide on their lands. Under it government insists ethnic people to apply registration for lands under their cultivation but can deny the registration, and all remaining preserved fores t lands could fall under virgin land category. People can thus lose their farmlands and ethnic, religious, cultural lands. By such registration, ownership of customary ethnic lands can be transferred to others. Research on customary land use system, on law s on land and environment and on related human rights will help political stakeholders to recognize ethnic people's customary land use system. Findings and documentary video will be disseminated via media and social media. Project produces and submits to t he CESCR a report on rights to food, livelihood, health, shelter and culture and how imposed land registration causes loss of land, livelihood and violates human rights. Report is supported by land and human rights training, research, advocacy, videos and conference to advocate domestic and international decision makers. It helps communities to protect and assert their human rights and their rights to own, control, manage and decide on their land and to save their bioculturally diverse environment. A joint policy recommendation on ethnic areas will be produced, more awareness and understanding among diverse ethnic and civil society groups, through briefings, media and social media spread out on how customary land use protects human rights and livelihood and community advocacy message for 2020 election. Project is implemented by Pa-O Youth Organization (PYO) with Burma Environment Working Group (BEWG) network, www.paoyouth.org + www.bewg.org.

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The project overall objective is Sustainable management and use of Tanzanian forests. The project will contribute to this by increasing the availability of information on forests by working with three institutions of which two are research institutes (SUA TAFORI) and one is Tanzania Forest Service. In the long run this will improve the living conditions for the people of the country through strengthened national economy and quality of life. The project aims at supporting forest and land use policy in line w ith the National Forest Policy 2001. Forest land management forest-based industries and products and ecosystem conservation and management with institutions and human resources are included in NFP. The aim is sustainable supply of forest products and servi ces by maintaining sufficient forest area under effective management employment and foreign exchange earnings through sustainable forest-based industrial development and trade and ecosystem stability through conservation of forest biodiversity water catchm ents and soil fertility.The results and activities of the INFORES-Tanzania project:1) Strengthened capacity of direct beneficiary organizations on NAFORMA maintenance and data dissemination and improved capacity on multisource forest data processing and GI S.2) Improved capacity of forest inventory and management oriented research in SUA and TAFORI.