Project summary
The project aimed to improve the capacity of institutions and the ability of stakeholders to plan, negotiate and implement/enforce institutional, regulatory and management systems for common pool resources, in ways that protect the interests of the poor. The research was conducted in Maswa and Same Districts, representing semi-arid areas of Tanzania.
Main objective
The project aimed to develop and promote strategies that can improve the livelihoods of the poor living in semi-arid areas through improved integrated management of natural resources under varying tenure systems.
Specific objectives
- to identify aspects of institutional and regulatory systems requiring improvement to facilitate equitable access to runoff and related CPRs in RWH systems.
- to identify, verify and promote tenure and management approaches that enhance equitable access to CPR affected by RWH, by different stakeholders and the environment
- to develop and promote guidelines for use by wards, villages and district councils in making CPR management plans that protect the interests of the poor while ensuring optimum and sustainable benefits to the communities using RWH systems.
- to enhanced capacity of stakeholders to plan, negotiate and implement/enforce institutional, regulatory and management systems for CPRs, in ways that protect the interests of the poor.
Key findings
- How existing institutional and regulatory mechanisms limited access to common pool resources by the poor.
- High level of inequity in gender representation in the institutions responsible for CPR management
- How existing land tenure system allows few households to hold a large proportion of the most suitable agricultural land through inheritance.
