Joint Village Land Use Planning methodology secures tenure for pastoralist women in Tanzania

The Sustainable Rangelands Management Project Project introduced participatory rangeland resource mapping, based on experiences in Ethiopia, to the Village Land Use Planning (VLUP) in Tanzania. Working with the National Land Use Planning Commission (NLUPC), the project was able to secure resources a...

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Autor principal: CGIAR Research Program on Policies, Institutions, and Markets
Formato: Case Study
Lenguaje:Inglés
Publicado: 2017
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Acceso en línea:https://hdl.handle.net/10568/121624
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Sumario:The Sustainable Rangelands Management Project Project introduced participatory rangeland resource mapping, based on experiences in Ethiopia, to the Village Land Use Planning (VLUP) in Tanzania. Working with the National Land Use Planning Commission (NLUPC), the project was able to secure resources across village boundaries and group Certificates of Customary Right of Occupancy that secured rights to shared grazing area of 12,187 ha, benefitting more than 3000 pastoralists/ agro-pastoralists, and incorporation of this approach in the NLUPC Guidelines.