Partners and Key Collaborators
Combining our diverse strengths
Our partners possess the technical and organizational skills, knowledge, resources, relationships and experiences that are needed to reach diverse stakeholder groups, influence policies, engage with communities and support operations – all of which are needed to create long-lasting transformational changes across the northern rangelands landscape.
Carbon Tanzania
Carbon Tanzania is Tanzania’s first and only private initiative to develop community-based carbon projects.Dorobo Fund
The Dorobo Fund for Tanzania provides critical funds to organizations working to help local communities.Honeyguide
Honeyguide helps communities develop and build conservation models that benefit livelihoods and ecosystems.Maliasili
Maliasili Initiatives supports the growth, development and performance of leading civil society organizations.Carbon Tanzania
- Community-based forest carbon offset project development.
- Community revenue generation.
- Established links to national and international carbon markets
- Support & training to village scouts for forest conservation activities including data collection and monitoring.
- Influence in Tanzania’s carbon emission reduction sector (forestry).
- Established network in the global climate change mitigation sphere.
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Dorobo Fund
- Community voluntary easement and concession development.
- Relationships with tourism operators.
- Community level collaboration.
- Facilitating negotiations between communities and outsider interests (e.g. tourist operators).
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Good governance at all levels. Without good leadership (integrity and wisdom), the chances of success are greatly decreased.
Honeyguide Foundation
- Anti-poaching strategies and human-wildlife conflict mitigation
- Community-based wildlife monitoring.
- Community-based tourism development.
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Maliasili Initiatives
- Organizational development and capacity building support
- Technical expertise on community based natural resources, land rights and natural resource policies
- Networking and fundraising links
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Oikos
Istituto Oikos, through scientific rigor and innovation, promotes responsible management of natural resources.Pathfinder
Pathfinder champions sexual and reproductive health and rights worldwide and mobilizing communities.TPW
Tanzania People & Wildlife empowers rural communities to conserve and benefit from their surrounding resources.TNC
The Nature Conservancy is a global conservation organization with a 60 year history of achievements.Oikos
- Conservation of natural resources through the inclusion of women and youth in sustainable marketplaces.
- Skills development for the promotion of innovative and culturally acceptable green enterprises.
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Pathfinder International
- Establishment of strong linkages between population, health, and the environment at partner, stakeholder, and community levels.
- Community linkages to health services and systems.
- Community based savings and loans groups establishment
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- Need for Family planning services and commodities;
- Maternal health; and
- Essential immunization services for children
Tanzania People & Wildlife
- Community-level conservation education
- Human-wildlife conflict mitigation
- Community-based wildlife monitoring
- Support for community scouts
- Community capacity building, focusing on enterprise development, women empowerment, natural resource management
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Youth environmental education: Job training and opportunities for learning beyond primary school (Grade 5) are rare for rural youth in Northern Tanzania. Through TPW’s youth environmental education program—the largest of its kind on the Maasai Steppe—schoolchildren are provided with valuable opportunities that are not found through traditional education. By engaging in immersive learning experiences such as after-school Wildlife Clubs, Environmental Summer Camps, and national park trips, young people are learning about local wildlife conservation and community stewardship. Additionally, they are gaining essential life skills such as teamwork, leadership, and peer teaching. The highest-achieving students receive full scholarships to a private secondary school, an opportunity that most local youth cannot afford.
Adult environmental management seminars: Developed by TPW and co-taught by trainers from the community, a series of five environmental management seminars equip community leaders, women’s groups, and other ambitious rural citizens with the skills to lead environmental conservation projects. As a result of these seminars, community members are learning how to sustain their most valuable natural resources. In addition, they are discontinuing activities that are destructive to the environment, such as wildlife poaching and charcoal production. As of 2016, TPW has trained 1,000 adults in environmental management and works with 10 community trainers.
- Big Cat Signs and Sightings: TPW-supported conflict officers report signs and sightings of big cats in their communities using Smart Phones linked to an Online Data Kit system. The presence of these big cats is a strong indicator of the overall health of the ecosystem. Additionally, TPW’s specially-skilled team of Hadzabe hunter-gatherer lion trackers can help count and identify the number of lions, cheetahs, leopards, and hyena that cross a given road at night. From these numbers, it is possible to understand the number of carnivores in a given study area and evaluate changes in populations over time.
- Wildlife Counts: TPW’s Warriors for Wildlife team helps to count the number of animals seen while driving down specific roads. A mathematical formula is then used to calculate how many individuals of each species live across an entire study area. This method is particularly effective for herbivore populations when done repetitively over time.
- Rangeland Monitoring: TPW-supported community rangeland monitoring teams collect vital information regarding pasture health, seasonal livestock grazing patterns and water availability. This information is critical in order for pastoralists to make wise decisions regarding the use of their pastures which impacts both livestock and wildlife populations.
The Nature Conservancy
- Conservation science and planning
- Ecosystem-wide thinking
- Partnership development and convening power
- Creative financing
- Organizational support and capacity building
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UCRT
UCRT supports communities in northern Tanzania to improve their livelihoods by managing their lands.WCS
The Wildlife Conservation Society uses science to inform conservation practice and supports rural communities.The Ujamaa Community Resource Team
- Expertise in participatory land use planning, CBNRM and in securing local land rights
- Advocacy and legal expertise
- Strong presence, reputation, and relationships with local and district level actors
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Wildlife Conservation Society
- Eco-system monitoring
- Community-based wildlife monitoring
- Anti-poaching support
- Data management
- Government partnerships